Can’t Generate App-Specific Password

I was logging in from safari from that pop up that allows you to enter your Mac password instead. To be able to create app-specific password, I had to choose "Use a different Apple ID" and then logged in with my Apple ID password instead.

I had this same issue and did the following:

1. I went to system settings -> passwords
2. "Passwords are Locked" -> authenticated
3. Security Recommendations -> deleted all of the old passwords (They show compromised)
4. Logged back into appleid.apple.com -> generate app specific passwords and it worked.

Good Luck!

I've had this issue the past few days myself. I just tried logging into appleid.apple.com using my <username>@icloud.com address instead of my custom email address (which also is my Apple ID). After doing that I was able to revoke and create new app-specific passwords again!

This just happened to me. It turns out that it was because my password had recently changed and Safari had my credentials cached. Signing out and logging back in with the updated password fixed the issue for me.

Apple could fix this with a correct error message or invalidating the cached credentials.

I had a similar thing happen to me tonight. I was able to resolve by forcing manual login to my account as opposed to allowing appleid.icloud.com to log in using my Mac password. My guess is that this has something to do with whether 2FA was required before the login completed. By telling it to "use another Apple ID" and then just logging in with my usual custom AppleID and my password (followed by 2FA), it worked fine.

Cheers,

-Gaige

Use Chrome to access appleid.apple.com then clicking the "app specific password" box (bottom right) responds correctly when you type in "app nickname" asking again for your apple ID password.

This last step does not occur in safari, rather one is instructed to go to the device settings (mac) > apple id which DOES NOT WORK in SAFARI - UGH - use Chrome!

I have an iMac, iPhone 14, and a new Galaxy S23 Ultra. Of course, those first couple were easy. However, logging into my iCloud email on the Galaxy was difficult because there seems to be a bug in Safari with AppleID related stuff. I was able to easily create an app specific password for my Galaxy using Chrome instead of Safari. It's pretty stupid but it works. As mentioned already they have nothing written in the support threads so this was the easiest workaround. Hope this helps. (Also you can use your phone to login to apple on Chrome via QR code and Face ID so you don't have to type in your password.)

Worked for me ! Thanks

"I've had this issue the past few days myself. I just tried logging into appleid.apple.com using my <username>@icloud.com address instead of my custom email address (which also is my Apple ID). After doing that I was able to revoke and create new app-specific passwords again! "

I just spoke to Apple Support and they are aware of this issue. There is workaround available that lets you stay in Safari:

When you login to appleid.apple.com, when you get the prompt for TouchID or FaceID, click on "Use a different iCloud Account" and then manually login with your email and password.

This worked for me while I was on support with them just now. The rep also said that this issue is in the engineering queue and a future software update should resolve it, but there was not a commitment to when that would be.

I had this exact problem.

I found a solution without having to delete all my passwords.

Solution:

I visited appleid.apple.com on a non-Apple device (using Chrome) and it worked first time.

I tried several different browsers on my iPhone and MacBook but kept getting the same message:

“Continue on one of your devices. On an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch go to Settings > Apple ID. On a Mac go to System Preferences or System Settings > Apple ID”

So I’m assuming this is an Apple glitch.

Using Safari 16.6 (macOS Ventura 13.5)

Open a new Private window

Login at https://appleid.apple.com/

Click on App-Specific Passwords

Now you will be able to generate on the web browser without being prompted to continue on your devices.

Safari browser would not work. I was not able to find a method to create an app specific password in the system settings on my MacBook or iOS devices. I switched to the Microsoft Edge browser and successfully created the app specific password I needed.

Yes... the logging in through Chrome Browser (perhaps other browsers as well) did the trick.

paulusfromkollum

User level:

Level 1

13 points

Jul 29, 2023 2:04 PM in response to datasciar

Didn't work for me, but the solution is as next: login at https://appleid.apple.com/ user Chrome browser instead of Safari. Good luck!

That worked for me, thank you for sharing!

And to clarify, I was logging in with my own Apple device (any device, the same thing would happen), and therefore I logged in with the native login prompt using Face ID or Touch ID (not Keychain), so logging out and logging in with by typing the password in worked.

Having this problem today.

Reloading to appleid.apple.com even using <username>@icloud.com did not solve the problem for me.

What did is to connect using another browser eg. Firefox then do the same procedure and it will create a new app password properly.

Cheers.