![]() Option 3: there are plenty of other options allowing you to reset your Apple ID password if you still have access to your second authentication factor (be it a trusted device or a SIM card with a trusted phone number). If you still have one of your devices that can receive a push notification via the 2FA mechanism, resetting the password takes less than a minute. Option 2: you can use to reset your password. Option 1: you can change the password if you have at least one trusted device acting as your second authentication factor. Well-established mechanisms exist allowing you or anyone else who has access to your SIM card or your iPhone (and knowing your passcode to that phone) to easily change or reset your account password. After all, companies have been dealing with lost passwords for decades. Losing the password to your Apple ID is no big deal. Using your second authentication factor: yes, you can change or reset your password, then set up the new device.Using your second authentication factor: yes, you can change or reset your Apple ID password, then reset the phone and disable iCloud Lock.Using login and password: yes, you can use your Apple ID password to disable iCloud lock.Using your second authentication factor: yes, you can change or reset your password to log in.įactory resetting the iPhone, turning off iCloud Lock.Using login and password: no, you still need your second authentication factor.Let’s compare what you can and cannot do with your login/password and your trusted device as your second authentication factor. Today, your second authentication factor has become way more important than your password. Something that can be used to change one’s account password in a click, remove factory reset protection and disable iCloud lock/Find My iPhone. Two-factor authentication had slowly mutated from being a roadblock to unauthorized account access into something else. Year over year, we couldn’t help but observe that Apple are making 2FA a way too powerful tool. In fact, this is not even the first time we’re writing about the ugly side of two-factor authentication. This is not the first time we write about two-factor authentication ( Exploring Two-Factor Authentication is the most recent write-up that’s still worth reading). ![]() It’s good reading and really explains a lot of things (but doesn’t cover some others). If you are not familiar with two-factor authentication, go ahead and read this Apple’s article: Two-factor authentication for Apple ID. ![]() So let us explore what happens to your Apple Account if you lose access to your secondary authentication factor, and compare the process of regaining control over your account in Apple and Google ecosystems. It’s particularly interesting if you have a child under the age of 13 registered in your Family Sharing, and the child loses their only iOS device (at that age, they are likely to have just one) and their phone number (at that age, they are likely to use prepaid service). There could be an even worse situation if your trusted phone number is no longer available (if, for example, you switched carrier or used a prepaid line and that line has expired). If you switched on Two-Factor Authentication to protect your Apple Account, you (or anyone else who knows your device passcode and has physical access to one of your Apple devices) can easily change the password literally in a matter of seconds.īut what if you do know your password and your passcode but lost access to the only physical iOS device using your Apple ID and your SIM card at the same time? This could easily happen if you travel abroad and your phone is stolen together with the SIM card. If your account is not using Two-Factor Authentication, you could answer security questions to quickly reset your password, or use iForgot to reinstate access to your account. If you’d lost your password, there could be a number of options to reinstate access to your account. In Apple’s land, losing your Apple Account password is not a big deal. ![]()
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