Microsoft Authenticator is asking me to authenticate using Microsoft Authenticator to use Microsoft Authenticator

I had this issue on my phone just now and this was the most helpful reply I've read. I got a new phone and it needed me to use authenticator so I could sign into teams, but when I tried to sign into the newly downloaded authenticator app, that's when the loop started. Going back to the Microsoft sign in settings and deleting authenticator as a sign in procedure fixed it. I was able to then sign into authenticator on my new device. - Thanks for the help. I hope that my reply gets people who may be having this issue to try this.

Jason,

You're entering an old thread where the original poster never properly chose an answer to his own question, so you're simply seeing the results of early attempts to help him find a fix. If you'd have bothered to read the posts, you'd have seen that in my third post, I correctly guessed the solution for those who are expected to use these forums, which are the typically consumer users of a Microsoft Personal account.

Unfortunately, many of those in this thread are in entirely the wrong forum, since any using the Azure - Work or School accounts that are often mentioned or inferred should have instead posted in the Microsoft Learn - Q&A forums instead, which is why the solutions I provided from my first post are typically regarding settings that exist in the Microsoft Personal accounts which these Community forums are designed to support.

You can have your own opinion, but if these people had actually gone to the correct forums in the first place, they'd likely have found a solution much more quickly and the only people I will try to aid here are those who belong here, which virtually none of the solutions provided actually do.

Again, to be clear, if you have a Work or School account with an administrator, you're in the wrong place. It's that simple.

Rob

And then with this Microsoft thread, you'll eventually need to click "Subscribe" and then "Unsubscribe" because apparently their software developers weren't smart enough to make two different options for us. I kept trying to figure out how to unsubscribe to this ever-growing thread and there is only a subscribe button. That's what you click on to reach the unsubscribe button. Someone needs to be fired!

Rob, i think you should stop replying to this thread as you are just filling up nonsense that you think you are being help. If you never had the experience, dont say anything please. Let the others who figured out answer

I actually resolved this by changing the setting in conditional access policy.

Under Access controls -> Grant, I had Require authentication strength -> Passwordless MFA selected. Now I changed it to Multifactor authentication and Auth app prompts me normally for Teams app on mobile device. And it still is Passwordless auth.

Regards