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TBF the code still being valid doesn’t help much if the user hasn’t memorized and/or finished typing it all.

Sitting next to some family members, they really can’t remember more than one or two letters at a time, and will peck and hunt each of it. Except if they were typing the last digit, the code disappearing from screen is basically the end of it for them.



In cases like these, I tell them "wait until the code changes, then go for it", so that they have thirty full seconds to read and type six digits.

If this still doesn't work for them, perhaps a hardware token they can tap might be a better solution.




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