How to validate your Destiny 2 account

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Over the past few years, Bungie has been working hard to deal with a large number of cheaters in Destiny 2. Despite having a solid anti-cheat program, players can still come across cheaters every now and then, mostly in the game's PvP modes.

According to the Bungie Help page, a feature already exists to help with this problem, requiring players to validate their identity using the SMS service on their phones. This feature was introduced back in Beyond Light and still exists today. That said, here's what players need to do if they ever come across such a validation prompt.

Players will be asked to validate their account when they log into Destiny 2 or when they're about to enter a restricted activity. As of now, these activities only include the Competitive Crucible mode and the Iron Banner mode. More activities are likely to enter this list sometime in the future.

Whenever players come across a validation prompt, they'll have to:

Interestingly, only a certain number of players will be affected by this verification process. Free-to-play players will have to complete this verification process for the first time before they queue up for Competitive Crucible or Iron Banner matches.

The help page further goes on to mention that players will have to sign into Destiny 2 after the verification process is complete in order to gain access to any restricted activities. A single phone number can be used to verify up to five accounts. Cheating has been a fairly common issue for a while now, and it's played a major role in ruining the overall PvP experience.

Now that Bungie is actively working to make the PvP mode better, players might encounter such validation messages more frequently in the upcoming days. Not only that, Bungie could also