Set Up Phone Text as Your Verification Method

How to Set Up Phone Text

Step 1: Sign-in to your Security Info

Do the following if you are not already signed in to your account.

Visit https://outlook.com/sjcd.edu using your computer

Sign in using your UserName & Password.

Go to View Account settings.

Step 2: Add Your Phone Number

Select Security info from the left navigation pane or from the link in the Security info block

Select Add sign-in method from the Security info page.

On the Add a method page, select Phone

Select Add.

On the Phone page, add the phone number of your mobile device

Choose Text me a code

Click Next.

Step 3: verify Your Phone number

You will receive a one-time code to verify that your Phone number has been added correctly.

Enter the code sent to you through text message to your mobile device

Click Next.

The page changes to show your success.

Step 4: Select Phone Text as your default sign in method

On the Security info page, select Change next to the Default sign-in method information.

Select Phone - text (your_phone_number) from the drop-down list

Select Confirm.

The default method used for sign-in will change to Phone - text (your_phone_number).

You have now completed your set up!

How to Delete Phone text from your security info methods

On the Security info page, click Delete next to the Phone option.

Click OK in the confirmation box to delete the Phone number.

After your phone number is deleted, it's removed from your security info & it disappears from the Security info page.

If Phone is your default method, the default will change to another available method.