Can’t Generate App-Specific Password

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!

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

paulusfromkollum

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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!

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.

Thanks, everyone, for the suggestion to use a browser other than Safari.

I had a more involved version of the same problem. I tried to change my Apple ID, but appleid.apple.com said I couldn't use the same address as my notification email address -- so I tried to change my notification email address, and got the same bogus message you've been discussing, to "continue on one of my devices".

After wasting more time on the problem than I care to think about, I finally found the suggestion here to use a browser other than Safari. Using Brave Browser, I was able to make the changes.

BTW, when I tried to use Chrome, appleid.apple.com refused to connect to it. Does anyone have any idea why that would happen?

I've installed the security update for iOS on my iPhone and I seem to be able to generate an app specific password, however not from my MacBook.

Try making sure the latest updates are installed -- it might be a security fix that Apple just did.

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 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.

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.

This was happening to me, because I got a new Mac. The solution was to

1. Set Google chrome as your default browser
2. Verify you are using the @iCloud or @me account not the account you use to login in to your iCloud account
3. When you receive the app specific password, manually type it in, do not copy and paste it.

From all accounts, this appears to be an issue introduced in the last few days. I don't see how a new software update would cause this because this is a service-side issue. This is something the corresponding team at Apple would need to fix. There are no tangible steps that can resolve this on the customer side. I also don't see how deleting passwords in Keychain would impact app-specific passwords. You shouldn't need to delete them, it's likely just a coincidence.

I hope Apple acknowledges this issue and provides a fix soon.

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

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.

Because Google is an all invasive hacking machine. Maybe Safari was trying to protect your Apple ID and system, that’s my guess anyway. People get mad when their stuff gets hacked but won’t take their systems security warnings seriously,they just go around them, go figure.

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!