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Why does my account keep getting locked? I’ve looked through everything and there have been no new downloads or purchases made. Only my device is set to my Apple ID account. I’ve had to change my password multiple times already.
What’s going on?
I have this too. It's a bug. At first I thought it was someone who knows me and was trying to lock my account on purpose repeatedly. Now I think it's either an iOS 14 bug, or Apple being victim of Russian/Chinese hackers and they don't want to let us know and come clean about what's going on.
My iCloud account keeps being locked every other day for over two months now. The service is just not fit for purpose anymore. Coming from the wealthiest company in the world, it's pretty appalling.
Each time, I have to log back in on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. And for each device I have to log back in to the App Store, iMessage and FaceTime. That's like entering the password 12 times, plus 2-3 times more for unlocking the iCloud account via email. 15 times!!!
Apple should be ashamed of such a poor security process. It shows it's so poorly built that they don't know what they're doing. A normal users shouldn't have to unlock their account nearly 50 times in 2 months without being told what's going on. Multiply that by 15 times having to enter the password and that's over 500 times of re-entering the password for this broken iCloud service!!! Complete madness.
I've spoken to Apple Support extensively and they were useless. Nothing they suggested fixed this issue. I bet they don't have a clue what's going on because the issue is much more serious, and copy pasting useless Apple support articles does not help in this case.
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.
I haven't updated any device in like 6 months, so it has nothing to do with an iOS, tvOS, or OS X update.
I have this question too
I’m not trying to challenge your personal experience but I can say that Google most certainly is vulnerable. Because you haven’t personally experienced it doesn’t mean that it isn't possible.
I agree, you must be onto somthing, I removed 2 old windows devices from icloud.com and at the moment I havent had any locking issues (so far, and its been just over 2 weeks)
Same thing happened to me overnight, after some weeks of no problems. There is no good security reason for this.
Some people have stated that they have 2 factor authentication and also have this issue. I don't, and I am certainly not going to activate it, it is a royal pain in the ***.
I have been locked out for 22 days! I cannot understand what the issue is and they claim they don't know what it is either, I am still waiting for an answer from the elusive engineering department.
toSuisho13 is this problem still solved or has it returned to constantly needing a pw change or verification?
Account keeps getting locked for security reasons and requires me to change my password constantly last couple weeks
