My excuse is I hate using TOTP. Stop making me open an app, wait for it to load, read numbers, type it in. If you have a situation where you have to auth multiple times, it's even more annoying. Other modern methods are less annoying and (arguably) more secure.

Not only that, but I have three authenticator apps installed because each service only works with one (or select ones).

But when I try to log in, they give no indication of which one I have to use.

So I finally started annotating which one in my password manager, so it's a whole extra step to load up that as well, and then search for the app on my phone.

Except it's worse: both the Google and Microsoft authenticators are just named "Authenticator", identically. At least the Google icon is a "G", but the Microsoft icon is so generic it could literally be any company. And then the Symantec Authenticator is randomly called "VIP Access", with zero indication it's by Symantec or that it's even an authenticator.

And because I only use these things once a month or so, I'm re-baffled by it every time.

I’m not sure what the three are, but I was able to use Authy for all of my TOTP codes before I moved them all to the iOS/macOS keychain which now has TOTP support combined with autofill into the TOTP field in Safari.

But in any case, what I wanted to let you know is that you can convert the Symantec VIP token into a standard TOTP token.

https://github.com/dlenski/python-vipaccess