Factory Reset Phone, Authenticator notifications not coming through

[Eric XD]

Hello, I recently Factory Reset my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra) after manually backing up all of the files that I cared about. I was unaware of the disabled-by-default checkbox for backing up Authenticator to the cloud until I began signing back into all of my accounts and found that despite signing into Authenticator with the same login credentials on the same hardware, the notifications and associated 2FA accounts were nonexistent. Thankfully, I didn't have many accounts tied to this, but the most important ones are tied to an online game that represents months of my life, and th

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