How do I Disable 2-Factor Notifications

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How do I Disable 2-Factor Notifications

I accidentally clicked enable 2-factor authenication on my mac when I updated the OS.

Fortunately, Apple knew people would decide to decline this mind numbing and probably useless level of added security.

I know from hard experience acquired years ago at a corporate site and at a secure government site that this authentication method was to complicated for practical use.

Consequently, I declined 2-factor authentication when I received the offer to do so and received this reply:

Two-factor authentication for your Apple ID (mylogin@provider.com) has been turned off and your previous security settings have been restored.

Unfortunately, my mac still wants to complete 2-factor authentication. How do I kill this notification bug so it stops asking me to complete the change over? I don't want to use this unnecessary and overly complicated security feature.

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.13

Posted on Dec 4, 2019 2:48 PM

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ChuckStarks Author

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Dec 6, 2019 7:03 AM in response to BDAqua

This is not a solution, but thanks for thinking about this anyway.

2-Factor is off, I successfully turned it off within the period Apple allowed. This issue is the FALSE "Finish setting up two-factor authentication" FLAG on my Mac's System iCloud window. My Mac thinks I want to continue, not Apple. And I'm not going to click that "Finish" button because I absolutely do not want to finish the disaster. .

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