Why is my Steam guard yellow?

Inside will be a shield, colored green if Steam Guard is enabled using the Steam mobile app, yellow if by email, and red if Steam Guard is turned off.

How do I restore my Steam Guard?

What are Steam Guard codes?

When Steam Guard is enabled on your account, you'll need to provide a special code to login from an unrecognized device. Depending on your Steam Guard settings, you'll either receive an email with the special code or you'll get it from the Steam Mobile app on your smartphone.

How long do I have to wait after Steam guard?

If you have recently enabled Steam Guard via email on your account, you will be unable to use the Community Market for the 15 days after Steam Guard was enabled. Removing Steam Guard or disabling and re-enabling Steam Guard will also trigger this restriction.

Do I have to use Steam Guard every time?

The Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator is a feature of the Steam Mobile App that provides an additional level of security to your Steam account. The authenticator generates a code that you need to enter every time that you log on to your Steam account.

How To Enable Steam Guard In Steam

Do I have to wait 7 days after Steam guard?

You can get the Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone devices. Items will no longer be held after you have had the authenticator enabled for 7 days.

Can you get around Steam guard 15 days?

You can't use the Steam Community Market if your Steam account is limited. In order to remove this restriction, you must have spent $5 on Steam. The only way of using it without a purchase would be by adding $5 to your account (you don't necessarily have to spend it), or by activating a Steam gift card.

Why am I not receiving Steam Guard?

Steam Guard emails are sent to the last email address registered for your Steam account. If you are not receiving Steam Guard emails: Verify that you are accessing the email address registered to your Steam account. Check your email spam filter to ensure the message was not flagged as spam.

How do I get rid of 15 day market restrictions?

No, trading and market restrictions cannot be bypassed. See the box on top, please. It beats me as to why you'd want to necro as the answers were given clearly in response to the OP. Why do people want the easy way out of things/shortcuts?

What is the benefit of Steam guard?

Steam Guard is a two-factor authentication feature of Steam. It provides an additional level of security above your username and password. With this feature enabled, Steam Guard asks you for a one-time code every time you log in to Steam on a new device.

Does Steam Guard stop hackers?

Steam Guard is a two-factor authentication system for your Steam account. It works either by a pass code sent in email or Steam mobile authenticator. Enable Steam Guard to prevent your Steam account from getting hacked.

Why do I get random Steam guard codes?

With Steam Guard, Steam saves a cookie to remember your computer or browser. Your browser must have cookies enabled for Steam Guard to work properly. If you are being repeatedly asked for a Steam Guard code on the same computer, you will need to ensure your browser has cookies enabled.

Why does Steam guard say bad phone number?

if u receive that SMS properly, then that means steam doesn't have support for ur network provider yet. in that case, there's nothing u can do, just wait until they add support. u can also switch to another number, one from different provider or different regional code.

How do I recover my authenticator code?

Can I recover my Google Authenticator? You can't recover Google Authenticator from a lost phone because the secret keys Google Authenticator generates are specific to the device. If you lose the phone, you lose access to the secret keys.

What is the $5 rule on Steam?

In order to make it more difficult for these malicious users to spam, scam, and phish other users, we restrict access to certain community features until an account has spent at least $5.00 USD in Steam.

Can VAC banned accounts trade?

No. VAC banned accounts are inventory locked to prevent VAC banned players from trading or selling items they gained through cheating.

How do I redeem a Steam guard code?

Why is my trade held for 15 days?

If you haven't had your account protected by a Mobile Authenticator for at least the last 7 days, items leaving your account will be held by Steam for up to 15 days. This provides you time to discover any transactions on hold that you didn't make.

What is Steam 2 week policy?

The Steam refund offer, within two weeks of purchase and with less than two hours of playtime, applies to games and software applications on the Steam store.

Can you get Steam on Iphone?

With the free Steam Mobile App, you can take Steam with you anywhere. Buy PC games and get the latest game and community news - while protecting your Steam account. Browse the Steam catalog of PC games from your phone. Never miss a sale again.

Can Steam run on mobile?

Remote Play Anywhere

Play your Steam games on your phone, tablet, TV, or other PC using Steam Link. With touch control schemes newly-optimized for hundreds of top titles, you can now access and play games from your PC while on the couch, or on the go.

Can a virus steal my Steam account?

Viruses, key loggers, spyware and other malicious code can steal your Steam Account name and password. Before resetting your Steam Account's password, you should run virus and spyware scanners to ensure such programs are not on your computer.