How to re-establish two factor authentication after iphone upgrade

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After a recent iphone upgrade, I discovered that I’d lost my former authentication tokens from Google Authenticator (and Microsoft).

Fortunately I saved my recovery codes and am able to log into my Plex web acct. I attempted afterwards to disable 2 factor authentication in order to re-sync with new iphone authenticator app. In order to disable 2FA, I discovered that I have to provide token code from authenticator app which is lost!!!

How do I reset and get new 2FA connection with iphone app?

Thank you!

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I’d used the same recovery code to try and disable the 2FA that I used to get re-linked to PlexTV after replacing phone. It didn’t work which is why I posted the note.

Trying a different recovery code (one I didn’t used before) seems to work. All back to normal. Thank you for prodding me to re-read the instructions again. I’m in and back to normal. I’m certain I used the same code before which failed, and didn’t see anything about that in the literature (if applicable). Thanks again.

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Each code can only be used once.
You will have to create a set of new ones if you are down to one remaining.

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