Once an app specific password has been generated (outlook) can I use this again? as in do i have to remember this if it asks me to log in again?? Or am I supposed to generated a new app specific password each time???
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Hey Plumbster,
We'd be happy to help out. You absolutely can. You'd use the app-specific password for the app you generated it for each time it's needed within that app. For more help, review these steps:
How to generate an app-specific password
1. Sign in to appleid.apple.com.
2. In the Sign-In and Security section, select App-Specific Passwords.
3. Select Generate an app-specific password or select the Add button, then follow the steps on your screen.
4. Enter or paste the app-specific password into the password field of the app.
How to revoke an app-specific password
You can have up to 25 active app-specific passwords. If you need to, you can revoke passwords individually or all at once.
1. Sign in to appleid.apple.com.
2. In the Sign-In and Security section, select App-Specific Passwords.
3. Select the Remove buttonnext to a password you want to delete, or Revoke All.
After you revoke a password, the app using that password will be signed out of your account until you generate a new password and sign in again.
Any time you change or reset your primary Apple ID password, all of your app-specific passwords are revoked automatically to protect the security of your account. You need to generate new app-specific passwords for any apps that you want to continue using.
This is all outlined further here: Sign in to apps with your Apple ID using app-specific passwords - Apple Support
We hope this helps out.
Take care!
Hey Plumbster,
We'd be happy to help out. You absolutely can. You'd use the app-specific password for the app you generated it for each time it's needed within that app. For more help, review these steps:
How to generate an app-specific password
1. Sign in to appleid.apple.com.
2. In the Sign-In and Security section, select App-Specific Passwords.
3. Select Generate an app-specific password or select the Add button
4. Enter or paste the app-specific password into the password field of the app.
How to revoke an app-specific password
You can have up to 25 active app-specific passwords. If you need to, you can revoke passwords individually or all at once.
1. Sign in to appleid.apple.com.
2. In the Sign-In and Security section, select App-Specific Passwords.
3. Select the Remove button
After you revoke a password, the app using that password will be signed out of your account until you generate a new password and sign in again.
Any time you change or reset your primary Apple ID password, all of your app-specific passwords are revoked automatically to protect the security of your account. You need to generate new app-specific passwords for any apps that you want to continue using.
This is all outlined further here: Sign in to apps with your Apple ID using app-specific passwords - Apple Support
We hope this helps out.
Take care!
Hi Plumbster,
You'd want to revoke and create a new password. Here is how.
"How to revoke an app-specific password
You can have up to 25 active app-specific passwords. If you need to, you can revoke passwords individually or all at once.
next to a password you want to delete, or Revoke All.After you revoke a password, the app using that password will be signed out of your account until you generate a new password and sign in again.
Any time you change or reset your primary Apple ID password, all of your app-specific passwords are revoked automatically to protect the security of your account. You need to generate new app-specific passwords for any apps that you want to continue using."
More info can be found here: Sign in to apps with your Apple ID using app-specific passwords - Apple Support
We hope this helps.
Cheers!
Hi,
Thanks, all of the above is understood. My question is thus this....if the password was not remembered at the time of using it is there a way of recovering the password aside revoking it and generating a new one?
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