Logging into your Strava account just got easier and more secure!
Athletes who log in with an email and password will now be able to sign in to their Strava accounts through a one-time code, eliminating the need to remember a password.
Athletes can enable one-time codes via their Settings page or by clicking “forgot password” from the log in page on the web or through their iPhone or Android device.
In order to be able to sign in via one-time code you must have the latest app version of Strava.
Questions about the one-time code feature? Drop us a reply below and we'll be happy to help out. If you prefer, you can submit a support ticket and someone from our Support Team will get in touch.
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Seeing the complaints in
the question is if going back from one time codes to the much faster and user friendly usage of saved passwords is enabled meanwhile or at least in the pipeline?
This is not more convenient, it is less convenient. Please implement real TOTPs or passkeys, not this annoying email login flow!
FFS! It’s a list of bicycle rides, not internet banking.
How do we stop getting asked to use a sign in code EVERYTIME we log into strava?
Another fine mess you’ve gotten me into… Strava, please stop trying to make my life easier. Another ‘upgrade’ that is making your app worse. Please make it possible to revert back to the password method of logging in. This is close to the last straw.
This feature is awful. There was nothing wrong with a standard username and password box that a password manager would deal with in an instant.
It is not easier - it’s much slower and more annoying. Even if you want you use a password it’s multiple clicks to navigate through to the point where it lets you enter a password. If you do use the email you’re sat twiddling your thumbs waiting for the email to arrive.
What a complete waste of time this change is. If you want to add actual security let people set up real 2FA with an authenticator app.
this feature is annoying as F*CK… passwords are not “hard to remember”… now you have to open email, copy code and paste just to log in? ridiculous
Please no. This is annoying, inconvenient and poorly implemented. I have a perfectly good password; let me use it.
This feature sucks ass. I haven’t received any code after multiple attempts and tens of minutes and I didn’t even get the button to use password instead.
I already forgot why I wanted to log in on PC by the time I managed to do it (by logging in on the community hub).
In all fairness this isn't a good move. Please allow us to revert back to passwords and give users the option for 2FA. Nobody is asking you to force users to implement 2FA but at least give people the choice. This is fairly common practice now across the board.
What a load of rubbish, Just started for me. The only way I can login in is through my Google ID. I haven’t signed up for it, I don’t want it, I don’t need it. Laptop, Windows 11, Edge.
Another dumb update making something worse than it had to be. FFS.
Oh jeez this is awful. I have a password, I use a password manager, please let me just use my password without multiple clicks. Even worse, occasionally it seems like the system “sticks” and refuses to give me a password option while simultaneously not sending me a 1-time-code.
Facial recognition would make login secure and faster. Please consider for future upgrade.
Well luckily I can still access the Community Hub. I can't log into Strava on desktop or on Android app. I try and login. I receive a one time code. I immediately enter the code (well within 5 minutes). I keep getting asked to try again later. I have uninstalled/reinstalled the app. Are there currently issues with Strava? If not, it really isn't acceptable. There really does need to be an alternative method to sign in if one time codes don't work. I've paid for this product!
Garbage development. They manually enabled 2FA for all users in the database, although in the user accounts it is not enabled. The result is that the system expects 2FA, but at the same time is not able to accept it, because another field contradicts it. The result is that you can't log into your account by main homepage. You have to log in through the forum, then go to the user settings, enable 2FA, and only from then on does this junk work. This is a level of MVP that no one tests, and customers are treated like mindless wallets.
And I omit here, out of pity, the mass of errors of the kind:
An unexpected error occurred. Please try again.
Please try again later.
Please try again with a new code.
Who do they employ there? Indian students because it's the cheapest?
Just want to add my voice to the chorus of people saying these codes are dumb and don’t work. Tried multiple times to log in on my computer and never received a code. There are millions of ways to make signing in more convenient and secure but this ain’t it.
KISS Strava...DO you know what that means? “Keep It Simple Stu**d”
Have not renewed & will not until this is resolved. Asked for help 2 months ago..Wake up read these replies & get over yourself this is not easier we are not so stupid we cant remember a password….
Hey guess what happens when we need to check email for your super secret code? Ummm we use another password so you solved nothing you only made it harder beyond its worth
Can you turn off the nag screen that keeps asking me to switch to this broken one-time code system? This is not a good implementation.
So basically you reduced the account security to be 100% tied to your email. So if it’s compromised the Strava team just threw in the athletes track record to the bonfire for the threat actor to burn. At least before you could have a password as barrier until it was reset.
Please be responsible Strava team. Do some DevSecOps and give us something which measures up to the current threat environment - FIDO2 or Passkeys!
@LStorgaard … maybe that’s what they wanted all along. Now, if there’s security issues, they can just blame it on your email provider rather than accept any responsibility themselves. Shift the blame… they should run for office!
