How to recover deleted passwords from Authenticator app

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Unfortunately, if you deleted your saved passwords from the Microsoft Authenticator app and they were synced with your Microsoft Edge account, they are typically removed from both places at the same time. Microsoft’s password sync works in real time, so when you delete a credential from one device or app, it is deleted from your cloud account as well. In most cases, there is no built-in “trash” or recovery feature for deleted passwords in Microsoft Authenticator or Edge. Your only hope of recovery is if you have a recent backup of your Authenticator data or Microsoft account credentials from before the deletion. Microsoft Authenticator offers a cloud backup option (tied to your Microsoft account), so if you had that enabled and the backup was created before deletion, you can restore it by reinstalling the app and choosing to restore from backup. If no backup exists, you would need to manually reset or recover each account’s password using the “Forgot password” process on each site or service.