Refine the MFA User Experience for Salesforce Orgs

Plan periodic reviews of your multi-factor authentication (MFA) implementation to verify it’s meeting your users’ needs. Consider enhancing the MFA user experience by enabling Lightning Login.

Required Editions

Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience

Available in: all editions

Important

Salesforce enforces MFA requirements in the summer of 2026. See these articles for more information and detailed rollout timelines.

Prepare for MFA Enforcement for All Employee Users.
Prepare for Phishing-Resistant MFA Enforcement for Privileged Users including Admins.

Lightning Login gives users fast, convenient, and secure password-free access to their Salesforce account. It satisfies the terms of the contractual MFA requirement by requiring Salesforce Authenticator (something a user has) and a PIN or biometric scan on their mobile device (something the user is). See Enable Lightning Logins for Password-Free Logins.