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You should be able to visit https://myaccount.google.com in a mobile browser to check your 2FA setting.


Aha, thanks, that does indeed say that 2FA is disabled. But I'm seriously baffled as to how it became disabled, as I absolutely enabled it previously and have been receiving 2FA verification codes via text since at least May 2015. Is there some way of accidentally disabling 2FA for Google accounts? I haven't gotten a new phone for years, and I've made no other changes to my Google account for as long.




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