{"id":495564,"date":"2026-06-12T06:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495564\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T06:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:17:08","slug":"gcash-to-replace-sms-otps-with-in-app-authentication-yugatech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495564\/","title":{"rendered":"GCash to replace SMS OTPs with In-App Authentication \u00bb YugaTech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GCash is set to roll out in-app one-time passwords (OTPs) beginning June 22, replacing traditional SMS-based verification codes as part of efforts to strengthen account security and combat online fraud.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/061126-gcash-to-replace-sms-otps-with-in-app-authentication-upload.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-427522\"  \/>The move comes ahead of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas\u2019 June 30 deadline requiring financial institutions to phase out SMS OTPs under the Anti-Financial Account Scamming Act (AFASA). SMS-based verification has become increasingly vulnerable to phishing attacks, SIM-swap fraud, and other scams.<\/p>\n<p>With the updated approach, OTP codes will be sent via secure push notifications inside the authenticated GCash app. Users are reminded to turn on push notifications so there won\u2019t be any interruptions when checking accounts or finishing transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Source<a class=\"ygt-source-card__link no-redirect\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abs-cbn.com\/news\/business\/2026\/6\/8\/gcash-to-launch-in-app-otps-to-curb-scams-1250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" data-skimlinks-tracking=\"0\" data-no-redirect=\"1\" data-lca-id=\"340370\" data-lca-post=\"427521\">abs-cbn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tGet the YugaTech Daily \u2014 Stories every morning.<\/p>\n<p>React to this article:<\/p>\n<p>                        \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<p>                        \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>                        \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>                        \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n<p>                        \ud83d\ude22<\/p>\n<p>                        \ud83d\ude21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GCash is set to roll out in-app one-time passwords (OTPs) beginning June 22, replacing traditional SMS-based verification codes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36570,212502,212503,61,60,202,80],"class_list":["post-495564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-gcash","tag-gcash-app-security","tag-gcash-to-replace-sms-otps-with-in-app-authentication","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}