

Otherwise, you may not be able to reach your password safe. It would be needed on some cloud storage.īut this again means, you need to be able to access this storage without a long cryptic password too. Those cryptic and long passwords may be more secure, but that means you need some password safe.Īnd this password safe needs to be accessible easily, with a password that you can remember.īut where do you store this password safe? I add something about password safes and a way to access them: The only thing that comes to mind, is to login into a website and check if i get asked to store the password in the (local) keychain.īut i fear that this will not be the case - and i found no way to "restart" use of the keychain.īut the main problem was my cryptic Apple Id password that i constantly need to type in.īut now i changed the settings, so that i do not get asked anymore when installing Apps. This is why I don't store anything critical in the keychain. I don't want to have to type a ridiculous password to log on to my Apple devices, so that becomes the weak link. My Apple ID password is, of necessity, less complex and random than the rest. It just saves time not having to pull up the other password app. However, since getting the Mac, I've relented a bit and now allow the local keychain to store low-risk passwords such as for forums and the like, while not storing critical ones such as my banking accounts. Mine makes it easy to look up, then copy/paste my ridiculously complex random passwords (that I generally don't even know). The security questions were much I also use a separate password vault as my master password database. This is nothing but a giant security hole!

They would not even need to try this recovery process! when you are dead and they have access to your SIM card and therefor your trusted phone number? whatever that means.īut what stops another person from doing the same, esp. So you need to initiate the recovery process. You can never get back into your account, as you have no trusted device and no trusted phone number anymore. What if you only have one device and drop it into the ocean? This 2FA is simply a very bad idea, or better, a bad implementation. They'll lock your account after too many password attempts or disable it if someone keeps trying to reset the password via, but you can get it back even if you have 2FA enabled and don't have a trusted device either through the multi-day account recovery process or by using a recovery ID if you've set one up. Not easy, because OS updates will sometimes 'helpfully' turn all the options on for said: Incidentally, if you don't want an iCloud email address (that you have no control over) adding to your Apple ID you have to make sure you never turn on the email option in the iCloud preferences. So I unlock the account, sometimes get forced to change the password, and then have to enter the password 18 times. Each of them need the password entering twice: once for iCloud, then again for the App Store. Getting locked out is a pain because I have 2 macs each with 2 different versions of macOS installed, 3 iPhones and 2 iPads with various iOS versions and screen sizes for testing. Meanwhile GiffGaff have been sending me emails containing his personal data. He got a SIM from GiffGaff two months ago using my iCloud email to do it and has been trying to get into the account ever since. My Apple ID is of the form (firstname)(lastname)(at)icloud(dot)com and someone with the same name thinks it's his.

In case you did not know: If someone is trying to access your iCloud keychain with a wrong password too often, that chain of keys will be deleted at Apple and you will loose any and all passwords!
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I just have to put up with being thrown out regularly, or I could delete my Apple ID losing about £700 of software and media in the process.Ĭraig Federighi just got an email. Apparently an email address that I had no say in, don't want and have never used can't be modified or removed. On another note, I've just had 45 minutes on the phone with Apple Support trying to get something done about the fact someone is repeatedly locking me out of my Apple ID by trying to log in to my iCloud email, sometimes multiple times each day. If you're getting the prompt for your password each time you try to make a purchase then check the options in System Preferences | Apple ID | Media & Purchases. I don't use the iCloud keychain and don't have to enter the App Store password repeatedly. OK, i need to enable keychain locally, without using iCloud.īut i still see no way to enter my Apple ID password in a way, that the App Store does not ask again and again.
