Can’t Generate App-Specific Password

This is a shame. I tried to get an app specific password for Outlook for Mac and encountered this issue. I saw a popup that said I should continue on another Apple device. That didn't work. I followed someone's recommendation to use Chrome instead of Safari. That worked. It's a shame that a third party browser works to complete an Apple process and Safari does not.

Yep, that fixed it. Thank you.

Confirming: Using Safari (an Apple product) to operate an Apple product actually caused the issue.

You have to use Google Chrome to log into your Apple ID, and then you can generate an app-specific password without getting stuck in a loop XD

Nice one, Apple.

The issue lies with biometric sign in. If you disable biometric sign in and manually enter your iCloud address and password it will work. Apple tech suggest hunting for a web browser that works, but the true problem is with the biometric validation. Any browser that requires manual sign in will work.

Try using a different browser. I was unable to create one in Safari, but when I tried Chrome it worked.

Hi

i just got this. It finally worked when I forced a log out/in for my Apple ID and it finally asked for two-factor authentication. After I did that, everything worked

I just tried logging into appleid.apple.com using my <username>@icloud.com address instead of my custom email address.

this worked for me... thank you!

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 had the same problem… what seems to work, is when you log into the Apple ID site, type in your Apple ID and password manually, do not let the password manager auto fill for you.

Don’t ask me why, but this seems to work

Frisby you are a genius and a lifesaver! I’d been trying to resync my iCloud calendar to my Alexa after changing my apple password and kept running into the same problem. Just when I was ready to give up hope, this worked! Logging in as my @icloud email finally got the app-specific password to finally work! To anyone else having this problem, this is the solution!!

This worked for me. I used Google Chrome. It might be a glitch on safari right now after the last update I just did. Might work on other browsers as well.

Used the Microsoft EDGE (Chrome) browser and it worked. Will not work in Safari. So what setting might that be???

Logging out on the web browser and back in fixed the issue for Me.

For the last two days, I have been trying to generate an app-specific password using Safari and was unable (got the message above). Found this post and tried Google Chrome and it worked first try!

What worked for me was logging out from appleid.apple.com and logging back in with my password (rather than with Touch ID)