Apple verification code pop-up disappears before I can press approve

I have the same issue.

The popup disappears on my iPhone, iPad and Macbook before I can read the code.

Restarting any of those devices, including the windows machine does not resolve the issue.

Using the sms method does not work either.

Please help!

In my case, I went through all of the possible suggested issues, and I solved this by checking my trusted devices. For some reason, my son's iPhone was a trusted device, and once I removed this it worked immediately on all my windows PCs. I recommend checking your trusted devices and makes sure they are not under another Apple ID.

I found a workaround. It’s tricky, but it works for me.

I took a second device (iPad) and took a video of my iPhone. If you’re really quick and press on allow as soon as the message on your iPhone appears, you can review the video on the iPad and see the code.

That’s how I got it to work.

Thank you so much for documenting your solution for this. I spent days trying to figure out why Apple verification code pop-ups were instantly disappearing when I was trying to approve iCloud for Windows passwords extension. Even Apple support were baffled (I spent a couple of hours in chat and escalated voice calls with them).

Based on your hint, I went to my Apple ID and removed my wife's iPad (my old iPad) from the list of trusted devices i.e. that iPad was being shared between her Apple ID and my Apple ID. Once I removed it from my Apple ID, the pop-ups stopped disappearing.

Phew!

hello..

I have the same issue and it does not help.

Furthermore, I just used the two way authentication to log in to my apple account to write this message. So, it seems it is clearly an iCloud for Windows issue (without me knowing the technical details)

Can we please get this resolved?

Thank you.

This actually worked for me, issue is if one of the device is shared with other icloud account, then it causes vanishing verification code. Once the device is removed from trusted device the problem is resolved.

Same issue and reboot does not work, please fix as this i quite annoying

Yes this doesn't work BUT. Go to the Apple Store and sign in from there and the Notification will stay and work !!!

Restart does not work!

1st time poster.

I finally have the answer for something! As a work around, if you go into you Apple ID on your phone find two factor authentication and request a code directly from there!!

Thank you for sharing!!! That was extremely annoying and I tried everything! As soon as I removed my daughters iPhone from the trusted devices, the authentication worked!

Same thing now 9 6 24 ????

Hello cajunalton,

Thank you for reaching out in Apple Support Communities. We understand you're unable to approve a verification code on your PC, as it immediately disappears before you can approve it. A step we recommend to do is to restart your computer and see if you're able to approve the verification code. This is a step that can help resolve unexpected behavior.

Please let us know if that helps.

Kind regards.

I have this same issue with Win 11 Pro for password verification only. Drive and photos are syncing as expected. If I choose to verify by email it seems to verify by password manager fails to receive any passwords with a spinning circle indicating it's waiting. Some security measure seems to be blocking. I suspected the PC so I used an alternate iCloud ID that I no longer use and it worked without issue. This suggest to me, it may be at the account level but all user end setting are identical.

Is there a waiting period to use this feature?

I’m glad to hear this helped. I struggled with this for a couple weeks. I’m not sure how this happened but maybe if you had shared legacy apps on your phone or iOS device, you family members device became a trusted device.