2-factor authentication to become mandatory June 15

[Mike Sellers]

It was a pain on my previous generation Apple TV. Had to google to figure out how to get it to work.

[Ken Sp.]

ka jowct wrote:
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Under what circumstances is 2 factor authentication required?

One of my questions also. And what apps are affected? I found this in Apple support:

"A trusted device is an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch with iOS 9 and later, or Mac with OS X El Capitan and later that you've already signed in to using two-factor authentication. It’s a device we know is yours and that can be used to verify your identity by displaying a verification code from Apple when you sign in on a different device or browser."

That would seem to mean that the computers I use regularly cannot be trusted devices, unless I want to muck about with rebooting just for 2FA. I mostly use Mavericks, occasionally use Yosemite, never use El Cap, and have one drive attached to my Mac Pro that has Sierra on it.

It's already annoying me that I get fscking notifications on every device if I reboot the Mac Pro to a different drive and for whatever reason enter my ID. There is clearly no recognition of the actual Mac. So every drive is seen as a different computer.
On older operating systems, 10.9 and older, the way around getting the pop up window for two factor is to do the following. The pop-up window does not happen on these older computers.
You enter your password like normal on the screen that requires the password, and then immediately after the password, with no spaces, enter the six digit number that the two factor authentication generates.

Apple is becoming so much more form over function, and I don't like this direction. The user has become second tier.
For instance, when you upgrade to different versions of the iOS, when your phone reboots, many times, it will ask you for your Apple ID password. If you don't have it, which many people down, your phone is a brick.
A simple way to prevent this, is, before the user can authorize the software update, they should be required to put in there Apple ID password. This way they have it, and they will have it again when it reboots. Otherwise their phone will be useless until they can enter, their correct Apple ID password.

[ztirffritz]

if that's true, they'd better fix it. I tried to use it and all my iOS devices as well as my Mac Mini have been stuck in an iCloud authentication loop ever since. I perpetually have a message on every device now telling me to authorize each device from another device. I made it through the support loop to the point of talking to an engineer who hung up on me and never called back. Their support is...lacking in this area. So far, Google's the only company I've found who's figured out how to do this properly.

[davemchine]

I also think Apples two factor is sketchy. Sometimes it asks and sometimes it doesn't. It's very confusing. Then there is the code on the ATV to AirPlay. It's just me and my family on our wireless network so why is it necessary to enter a code every time?

[testcase]

"is anyone using it?"

Yes, I have it set up on my Google accounts and on my Samsung Galaxy S7Edge. It is a bit of a pain but, if it keeps the hackers out, I'll put up with it.

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ka jowct wrote: 2-factor authentication to become mandatory June 15

Apple's notice is saying that for those who do use two-factor authentication, they will need app-specific passwords. It isn't saying that two-factor authentication will be necessary.

[Racer X]

clay wrote:
mandatory where? everywhere?

You'll never get a straight answer, you know.

[ArtP]

Ugh...

I just turned it OFF earlier this week - it was just a pain. Especially when buying Apps for iPhone/iPad on my iMac.

[M A V I C]

Apple's implementation is painful. I tried it out and it told me I needed to auth on one of my other devices, but none of them got the message to do it. Painful.