You may find yourself because you've received several harassing emails from Bionic Cat telling you to enable your 2-factor authentication for Google.


"But I've already set it up!!" you might say whilst cursing the Cats. 


If this is you, please make sure you've actually enabled/turned on 2-factor authentication. Just by virtue of setting up an Authenticator App, 2-factor is not automatically enabled, which is a silly design by Google. 


In short:



See below for a quick video on the process.