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Azure AD user-help] SMS sign-in UX
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title: SMS sign-in user experience for phone number (preview) - Azure AD
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description: Learn more about SMS sign-in user experience for new or existing phone numbers
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services: active-directory
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author: curtand
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manager: daveba
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ms.service: active-directory
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ms.subservice: user-help
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ms.workload: identity
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 03/25/2020
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ms.author: curtand
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ms.reviewer: kasimpso
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ms.custom: "user-help, seo-update-azuread-jan"
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---
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# Use your phone number as a user name (preview)
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Registering your device gives your phone access to your organization's services and doesn't allow your organization access to your phone.
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## User registers a number
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If your organization hasn't made SMS sign-in available, you won't see an option for it when registering a phone with your account.
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## User with new phone number
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If you get a new phone or new number and you register it with an organization for which SMS sign-in is available, you experience the normal phone registration process:
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1. Select **Add method**.
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1. Select **Phone**.
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1. Enter phone number and select **Text me a code**.
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1. After you enter the code, select **Next**.
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1. You will see a prompt that says "SMS verified. Your phone was registered successfully."
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> [!Important]
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> Due to a known issue in the preview, for a short time adding phone number will not register the number for SMS sign-in. You'll have to sign in with the added number and then follow the prompts to register the number for SMS sign-in.
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### The phone number is in use
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If you try to use a phone number that someone else in your organization is using, you'll see the following message:
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![Error message when your phone number is already used](media/sms-sign-in-explainer/sms-sign-in-error.png)
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Reach out to your admin to remediate the problem.
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## User with an existing number
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If you are already using a phone number with an organization, and using your phone number as a user name becomes available, the following steps can help you sign in.
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1. When SMS sign-in is available, a banner is displayed asking if you'd like to enable the phone number for SMS sign-in:
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[![](media/sms-sign-in-explainer/sms-sign-in-banner.png "Banner to enable SMS sign-in for a phone number")](media/sms-sign-in-explainer/sms-sign-in-banner.png#lightbox)
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1. Also, an **Enable** button appears if you select the caret on the phone method tile:
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[![](media/sms-sign-in-explainer/sms-sign-in-phone-method.png "Banner to enable SMS sign-in for a phone number")](media/sms-sign-in-explainer/sms-sign-in-phone-method.png#lightbox)
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1. To enable the method, select **Enable**. You are prompted to confirm the action:
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![Confirmation dialog to enable SMS sign-in for a phone number](media/sms-sign-in-explainer/sms-sign-in-confirmation.png)
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1. Select **Enable**.
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## Delete phone number
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1. To delete the phone number, select the delete button on the SMS sign-in phone method tile.
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[![](media/sms-sign-in-explainer/sms-sign-in-delete-method.png "Banner to delete SMS sign-in for a phone number")](media/sms-sign-in-explainer/sms-sign-in-delete-method.png#lightbox)
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2. When prompted to confirm the action, select **OK**.
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You can't remove a phone number that is in use as the default sign-in method. To remove the number, you would have to change the default sign-in method, then remove the phone number again.

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href: security-info-setup-text-msg.md
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- name: Set up phone calls
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href: security-info-setup-phone-number.md
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- name: Set up SMS sign-in
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href: sms-sign-in-explainer.md
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- name: Set up security key
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href: security-info-setup-security-key.md
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- name: Set up email

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