Introducing Duo Wear: Seamless MFA From Your Wrist!
We’re thrilled to announce Duo Wear, a companion app for Duo Mobile that brings fast and easy multi-factor authentication (MFA) to your Wear OS smartwatch!
What is Duo Wear?
Duo Wear is an app designed specifically for Wear OS smartwatches. It works together with the Duo Mobile app on your Android phone. With Duo Wear, you can:
Generate One-Time Passcodes (OTPs) — Type passcodes in your login prompt without ever opening your phone.
Answer Duo Push Notifications — View information about your login attempt and approve or deny login requests.
Answer Verified Duo Push Notifications — Effortlessly enter Verified Duo Push codes using a wearable-first user interface.
It’s quick, simple, and offers a frictionless authentication experience.
Why Make a Wear OS App?
Wearables are a growing component of our technological lives. In 2023 alone, the Wear OS userbase grew by 40% thanks in part to the beautiful hardware and powerful technology of devices like Pixel and Samsung Galaxy watches. As our reliance on smartwatches grows, so do our expectations of what they can do. We make payments, navigate our towns, and message our friends right from our wrists – why not protect our log ins too?
Our customers made it clear: you want a world-class wearable authentication experience and at Duo, we couldn’t agree more.
Easier, Faster, Safer Authentication
When it comes to logging in, we want a frictionless experience and when secured with a pin or passcode, Duo Wear delivers – no more stalking through rooms or rifling through your bag to unlock your phone for login. A quick tap on your smart watch and you can verify your identity.
With Duo Wear, enabling Google Smart Lock is no longer necessary – meaning there’s no added vulnerability when using your smart watch to login.
Get Started with Duo Wear
Setting up Duo Wear is simple:
Ensure your Wear OS smartwatch is connected to your Android phone
Make sure you have Duo Mobile version 4.83.0 or higher on your Android phone
Download Duo Wear on your Wear OS smartwatch
Open Duo Wear to enable watch notifications and set a device pin if needed
Welcome to the future of authentication, right on your wrist!