{"id":234594,"date":"2026-04-23T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/goodbye-otps-and-magic-links-signing-up-for-new-android-apps-just-got-easier\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:30:07","slug":"goodbye-otps-and-magic-links-signing-up-for-new-android-apps-just-got-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/goodbye-otps-and-magic-links-signing-up-for-new-android-apps-just-got-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, OTPs and magic links: Signing up for new Android apps just got easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-verified-email-no-magic-links-otps-3660150\/\">Goodbye, OTPs and magic links: Signing up for new Android apps just got easier<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-verified-email-no-magic-links-otps-3660150\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-verified-email-no-magic-links-otps-3660150\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-23 03:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google now lets you sign up for an Android app via email without using magic links and one-time PINs.<\/li>\n<li>Instead, Android now offers a Verified Email feature that lets you sign up for an app without switching to your email app for verification.<\/li>\n<li>The feature is only available for consumer Gmail accounts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Signing up for new Android apps via email is a familiar task for many people. These apps typically send a magic link or one-time PIN (OTP) to your email address to ensure it\u2019s actually your address. But Google has now made things even more seamless on Android with Verified Email.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Wg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_Wg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Google just updated Android\u2019s Credential Manager API with a Verified Email feature. In short, this means you can sign up for an app without switching to your email app to retrieve a magic link or OTP. In fact, you don\u2019t have to deal with a magic link or OTP at all. Instead, Google says the app refers to the new \u201ccryptographically verified email credential\u201d which is sourced from your Google account and stored on your device. App developers can also subsequently prompt users to create a passkey following this new signup process.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Wg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" title=\"Google Verified Email Android example\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Google-Verified-Email-Android-example.jpg 4301w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Google-Verified-Email-Android-example-64w-29h.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Google-Verified-Email-Android-example-1000w-446h.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Google-Verified-Email-Android-example-1920w-857h.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Google-Verified-Email-Android-example-1536w-686h.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Google-Verified-Email-Android-example-675w-301h.jpg 675w\" alt=\"Google Verified Email Android example\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Google-Verified-Email-Android-example.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to enabling more convenient app signups, Google says the Verified Email feature can also be used for account recovery and re-authentication for sensitive actions (e.g., changing key settings). So this should be handy for your current apps too.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of caveats with Verified Email, though. For one, this is currently restricted to consumer Google accounts. That means you\u2019ll need to stick with the legacy email verification methods for now if you have a Workspace or managed account.<\/p>\n<p>What about Google accounts that are created with non-Google email accounts? The company issued an explanation:<\/p>\n<p>Google is not the authoritative source for these email addresses in the long term. While Google verifies the email when the account is created, the ownership of that email address might&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-verified-email-no-magic-links-otps-3660150\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye, OTPs and magic links: Signing up for new Android apps just got easier https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-verified-email-no-magic-links-otps-3660150\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/samsung-galaxy-s26-display-app-drawer.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,86],"class_list":["post-234594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234596,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234594\/revisions\/234596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}