today i discovered that you can update your phone number in Paypal, including deleting your old phone number... but if you have that phone number set as a 2FA device, it will continue to be so set until you explicitly remove it.

fortunately, i was just rejuggling SIMs, rather than changing my phone number because the old one was gone; but something to beware of if you have a phone number as your only 2FA device - change in 2FA first!

@thamesynne I ran into a similar problem myself in the past with my Nintendo account. I got a new phone, and forgot I had Google Authenticator installed on the last one, and had 2FA on my Nintendo account.

I couldn't simply reinstall Authenticator and authenticate that way, so I had to contact support to have 2FA removed, oops.

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