Andy, I completely agree with you (yellow-highlighted below). I have the sense, among Marko, Kenneth, and me, that they are talking about *after* 2-step has been set up. I am talking about Step 2 (and Step 1, I now note) *of the set-up process*: Step 1 is to input which phone verif codes should be sent to. I made that my landline home phone, via voice call. Step 2 . . .
*Wait! Something has just happened. I don't know how or why and hate feeling confused like this, especially since I thought I was getting past that state! I wanted the Step 1 phone # to be my home phone via voice as I just wrote. But I didn't receive the code there (also tried last night). Suddenly, somehow, I got a code that worked (that is, I verified it) from the recovery phone number I had input in my Google account info.* *What I want now--help, anyone!--is (1) to have that landline phone # be the default # for receiving verif. codes if I choose to "untrust" a computer and (2) to have the phone number by which I just verified whatever I verified be my recovery phone number. I don't know about being automatically signed out as Marko mentioned; in fact, I am now going to try to figure out how to do the two foregoing actions on my own. I think I successfully trusted the computer I wanted to trust and anow want to see what happens when I sign off Gmail, the only Google thing I have open, and then sign in again.* *I know there are messages I haven't gotten to, but this just happened. Again, I have no idea how I enabled 2-step except it involved my recovery phone number (which is actually my husband's cellphone which has texting. Also again, I want verifs. (if I choose to untrust a computer) to go to my landline # via voice.* *To be continued . . .* *~Diane* On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Andrew Ingraham <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 9:09 PM, DEP/Dodo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> As I wrote a moment ago, I can first sign out as Kenneth mentioned and >> then try to set up 2-step, >> ... >> > > I don't use 2-Step Verification. But I am pretty sure (if not absolutely > certain) that you *must* be logged in when you enable it. There is no > way you could enable it if you are not logged in to your account. > > Think about it. If you are logged out, Google doesn't know who you are. > (You might as well be the dog in the "New Yorker" cartoon.) How could you > possibly do something that affects *your* account unless Google knows who > *you* are? > > Andy > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
