Windows 10: Windows hello, Authenticator and two step verification

I am struggling with a set of related Microsoft account login questions. It crosses some Windows Hello, password/PIN, Authenticator and two step verification boundaries. The question set up is as follows -


1. Valid Microsoft user account

2. Windows 10 PC with matching PIN user account login

3. iPhone with Microsoft Authenticator app

4. Microsoft account configured to use iPhone/Authenticator login verification


When I attempt online login to my Microsoft account from my PC, I receive a login approve/deny prompt on my iPhone. Selecting approve successfully completes the login. If I then visit the "Additional security options" page in my Microsoft account, I find a link for setting up two step verification. That is, although I just used Microsoft Authenticator on my iPhone to approve the network login from my PC to my Microsoft account, I apparently do not have to two step verification configured for login access to my Microsoft account. What am I failing to understand? Am I not using two step verification when I log in as described? If I select the "Set up two step verification" link and successfully complete the setup, what account security features will I enable that are not already in place?

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two step authentication

Please check our Windows Phone support article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2432933.

Did you recently enable two-step verification on your Microsoft account?

If you turned on two-step verification for your Microsoft account, you will have to perform an extra step to sign in on Windows Phone. Windows Phone can't prompt you to enter a security code when you try to sign in. Therefore, you'll have to create a unique
app password to use when signing into Windows Phone with a Microsoft account that has two-step verification turned on.

To create a unique app password for your Microsoft account, go here:

• Two-step verification: Create app password
  (Sign in to your Microsoft account)
  

For more information, see the following Microsoft account help and how-to article:

• Two-step verification: FAQ
  (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/two-step-verification-faq)
  

After you create an app password for your Microsoft account, enter it as your password on Windows Phone. To do this, go to Settings
> Email+Accounts. Tap Microsoft account, enter your app password, then tap Done.

 

Turning off 2 step verification

i have the 2 step verification DISABLED under my settings yet when i try to retrieve mail it keeps asking me to logg into google and it takes me thru process and gives me an authentication code. What must i do with this code? I dont want the 2 step verification!!!

 

Two step verification

The 2 step verification works, it's just that I don't understand why it behaves the way I described. Why doesn't it immediately confirm after I select "yes", instead of asking me to try another way to sign in?