Title: Remove 2FA
Last modified: June 4, 2019

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# Remove 2FA

 *  [Ov3rfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ov3rfly/)
 * (@ov3rfly)
 * [6 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-2fa-3/)
 * How can we completely remove/disable the 2FA feature so no extra column shows
   up in Users screen?
 * I found [this thread](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-2fa-2/), but
   I have no `DEACTIVATE` button anywhere on Login Security page of Wordfence 7.3.2
 * Screenshot:
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fremove-2fa-3%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [6 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-2fa-3/#post-11604737)
 * To remove it from the user’s page (wp-admin/users.php) just expand the Screen
   Options at the top right hand of the page and uncheck 2FA status.
 * [https://i.postimg.cc/hPkmHLMF/users-list.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/hPkmHLMF/users-list.jpg)
 * The only user level that always has the option to setup 2FA for themselves is
   Administrators. You can make 2FA unavailable for other user roles (Editor, Subscriber,
   etc) on the **Login Security** > **Settings** page where it says “Enable 2FA 
   for these roles”.
 * Tim
 *  Thread Starter [Ov3rfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ov3rfly/)
 * (@ov3rfly)
 * [6 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-2fa-3/#post-11606991)
 * Using Screen Options on each and every account is not an option. There are sites
   with several admins and various other accounts with extra _xxx__users capabilities.
 * As explained, we need a general completely remove/disable switch for the the 
   2FA feature.
 *  Thread Starter [Ov3rfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ov3rfly/)
 * (@ov3rfly)
 * [6 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-2fa-3/#post-11607299)
 * We added a cosmetic workaround now to `functions.php` of those sites. It removes
   the unwanted 2FA column in Users screen for now.
 *     ```
       $role = get_role( 'administrator' );
       if ( is_a( $role, 'WP_Role' ) ) {
       	if ( $role->has_cap( 'wf2fa_activate_2fa_self' ) ) $role->remove_cap( 'wf2fa_activate_2fa_self' );
       	if ( $role->has_cap( 'wf2fa_activate_2fa_others' ) ) $role->remove_cap( 'wf2fa_activate_2fa_others' );
       }
       ```
   
 * Please don’t add capabilities to user roles without a general setting to disable
   this.
 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [6 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-2fa-3/#post-11607639)
 * I believe I misunderstood you. When you said “How can we completely remove/disable
   the 2FA feature so no extra column shows up in Users screen” I thought you meant
   the wp-admin/users.php page, not the user’s profile page. You’d only need to 
   make the change I mentioned earlier once to remove the column from the list of
   users on the wp-admin/users.php page.
 * For the users page in general, login to your site as an admin and go to the Login
   Security page (look under Wordfence in the left side navigation). On the Settings
   tab where it says “Enable 2FA for these roles” you can turn off the ability to
   use 2FA for any role you choose _except administrators_. Then those roles you
   deselected will not see any option to add 2FA to their account. I might add that
   only the administrators role is selected by default. If other roles were added
   they would have had to be checked by a member of your team.
 * Tim
 *  Thread Starter [Ov3rfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ov3rfly/)
 * (@ov3rfly)
 * [6 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-2fa-3/#post-11608069)
 * As explained aready, using Screen Options on each and every account is not an
   option. There are sites with **several** admins, we can not log in as every admin
   on dozens of sites to “hide” something which those admins can “unhide” at any
   moment.
 * Please add a general completely remove/disable switch for the the 2FA feature
   in Wordfence options.
 *  [WFGerroald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfgerald/)
 * (@wfgerald)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-2fa-3/#post-11760954)
 * Hey [@ov3rfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ov3rfly/),
 * Just so you know, this is a current feature request and the developers are looking
   into it.
 * Thanks,
 * Gerroald
 *  [Garrett Hyder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garrett-eclipse/)
 * (@garrett-eclipse)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-2fa-3/#post-11819228)
 * Glad to hear this will be looked at, came to find a way to disable as well.
 *  [Jacob Hill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tekfused/)
 * (@tekfused)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-2fa-3/#post-12306312)
 * Is there any update on this? I’m using another 2FA plugin, and would like to 
   disable Wordfence’s 2FA feature. Thanks!

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-2fa-3/#post-12306312)
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