When two-factor authentication is enabled, you can show your recovery codes, including the ones you've already used.
You can freely regenerate a new set of fresh recovery codes, just be sure to replace the previous ones where you saved them as they won't be active anymore.
+
+## Third-party applications and API
+
+Third-party applications using the Friendica API can't accept two-factor time-based authentication codes.
+Instead, if you enabled two-factor authentication, you have to generate app-specific randomly generated long passwords to use in your apps instead of your regular account password.
+
+**Note**: Your regular password won't work at all when prompted in third-party apps if you enabled two-factor authentication.
+
+You can generate as many app-specific passwords as you want, they will be shown once to you just after you generated it.
+Just copy and paste it in your third-party app in the Friendica account password input field at this point.
+We recommend generating a single app-specific password for each separate third-party app you are using, using a meaningul description of the target app (like "Frienqa on my Fairphone 2").
+
+You can also revoke any and all app-specific password you generated this way.
+This may log you out of the third-party application(s) you used the revoked app-specific password to log in with.
+
+## Trusted browsers
+
+As a convenience, during two-factor authentication it is possible to identify a browser as trusted.
+This will skip all further two-factor authentication prompt on this browser.
+
+You can remove any or all of these trusted browsers in the two-factor authentication settings.
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