Google 2FA “Sorry, we can’t fulfill this request at this time. Please try again later or use a different phone number.”
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/14
A while ago while first securing a bunch of accounts with a phone number, then later replacing them with 2FA hardware, I got this error message:
Sorry, we can’t fulfill this request at this time. Please try again later or use a different phone number.
This seems to have to do with the fact that if have gotten about 10 2FA messages a day, then it cannot be used to add a new phone number to an account. The phone number still can be used to verify existing accounts where the phone number was already registered.
Retrying after 24 hours usually works.
Related:
- [Wayback] Common issues – Google Account Help
- [Wayback] 2-Step Verification does not work for new Gmail account – Google Account Community
- [Wayback] “Sorry, we can’t fulfill this request at this time.” error message for 2-step vf – Google Account Community
- [Wayback] “Sorry, we can’t fulfill this request at this time. Please try again later or use a different phone number.” – Google Search
–jeroen
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