Account keeps getting locked for security reasons and requires me to change my password constantly last couple weeks

Spoke to telephone support to try to find out if my account was compromised, they were unaware of this problem. I too don’t want to use two factor because I like to vacation abroad and if my device was stolen I couldn’t buy a new one and sign into my account!

Whenever a website offers to remember a password it takes a full minute to load... which seems to be another tactic to strong arm me into 2FA.

Your experience is exactly the same as mine and you are so spot on on every aspect. My iCloud account and service was fine for the last 10 years... until November 2020.

This thread now has 600 "I have this question too", and I'm sure the amount of people affected is in the thousands. The thread was viewed by 13,766 people.

I was on the phone for almost an hour too and pretty much begged for the support advisor to help escalate this to senior iCloud engineers and restore normal service once and for all.

But like you, I believe Apple is fully aware of this issue and may even have created it in order to push obsolescence on older devices. Some of my devices are indeed older as well, but some aren't. And I get locked out on all of them...

It is really sad that, since November 2020, we have to live with the constant fear of Apple mishandling our sensitive personal data and deteriorating the iCloud service and our enjoyment of the Apple devices we purchased.

I have been locked out of my apple ID for 22 days now. The automated recovery system keeps stalling so the 20 hours has been restarted countless times. The advisor does not get back to me and I am still waiting for the promised engineering people to speak to me. I have had to turn off all of my devices so I am unable to work, check my banking, see if I have been hacked, work my security system, etc. It is ridiculous.

Massively frustrating for sure. For a company who's tag line is 'it just works' it sure is comical at this point. My frequency of lockouts has reduced to maybe once bi-weekly at best and once weekly at worst. I was considering purchasing a new MBP and a phone, but to be frank if Apple can't sort this issue out in over a year or can't be honest and tell us the real reason this is happening, then I'm not so sure Apple should get my hard earned. I moved all my personal machines over to the Apple eco-system 20 years ago due to my frustrations with Windows. I'm starting to feel the pull of the dark side once again!

Same annoying issue here!!

I have this as well! I've changed my passcode and did the Malware bites, but nothing! I've had to do it several times and I don't know why! At least I'm not the only one with the issue!

Thank you for that information as I thought you did have a 2 week time frame. Sort of a recall now that they stopped doing that. To me, you should be free to turn it on and off at whim.

same with me its really annoying that it keeps locking my account for no reason.

Mine has been getting locked every day or 2, I noticed today it was re-locked soon after signing into my iphone 6 on ios 10. I keep it on 10 to allow my 32bit apps to still work.

Interesting. I'll try this next time it pops up.

My iPhone 6S now seeks to force me to use 2FA with iMessage. Since when? Stop bullying me Apple 🤬

I actually do the 2 factor authentication and I STILL have to Re-do everything constantly.

I also have the problem with several apple products. I want to say it is caused by an IOS program update/malfunction.