#outlook doesnt work after enabling 2fa

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Cannot login to Outlook after enabling MFA/2FA

Outlook for desktop just keeps showing the login popup with no error message after enabling multi-factor authentication on your account.

I don’t know why they don’t tell you this but you need to generate an app password and login with that instead of your normal password.

Go to Outlook.com and login there, then click on your name/icon on the top right, click My Account (which goes to https://myaccount.microsoft.com/), under Security Info click UPDATE INFO. Click Add method on the top, select App Password, name it whatever you want, click Next, then copy/paste that password into Outlook. (You could save this password somewhere since you’ll never be able to see it again).