My Apple ID keeps getting locked

I started with AppleLinks, then eWorld, then iTools briefly, then Mac.com, then MobileMe, now iCloud. Became an Apple Certified Developer in 1987 (ASM, Pascal, C, and so on). I designed then created the first standards based Video TeleConferencing software (with my team) for the Mac. I designed and created the Fax software for MacOS X.

I think I can figure out how to login to iCloud without tripping a digital security wire. It is the design of the Apple account security that backfires and disables our accounts when someone tries to hack our Apple account.

I also designed and built the architecture of www-*****.**l which included security on accounts that was much better 15 years ago than what we experience today with account lockouts.

Apple needs to fix…

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Unlocked it again yesterday and was locked again within 2 hours.

you know how you know if an e-mail address is an Apple ID? It turns blue when you use it as an address in iMessage. That’s when the system exchanges the crypto certificates and confirms the ability to send a DM to the address.

Ok, I have 5 e-mail addresses (one Mac.com original one) and 2 phone numbers all under the Apple account. Any of these could be used as my Apple ID for login to AppleID.apple.com hence any of them could be being used to trigger Apple’s inferior security process.

are you saying I should abandon them all and change my phone numbers just because Apple doesn’t have their security act together?

Jim if your Apple ID is an iCloud account (or in my case an me.com address) only then it is not possible to change this address or change your Apple ID. My Apple ID and my email address are one service.

this is happening to me every time I access the Apple help community - I have to log in at least every five minutes - if I refresh this page while signed in right now it will actually lock my account again and make me go through the whole unlock process again

Every day sometimes 6 times a day my Mac mini says my Apple ID is locked, but it never happens on my iPhone or MacBook Air. All my desktop OS are on 14.5 and the iPhone 15 is up to date. I have all the security turned on and when this happened in May I changed my password. Sometimes the request crashed my system setting and I have to force quit. I gave up yesterday. I did a reinstall of the Sonoma I woke up this moring to my mini saying my Apple ID was locked yet again. It is never ending circle of **** and no one online has an answer.

perhaps the message was lost. You can use an iPhone phone number and the associated Apple account (aka “Apple ID”) password to login to your account. You can also use that same phone number to lock up the account hence lock up what used to be called your “Apple ID”.

how does changing any e-mail address have any positive effect on this?

Apple’s poor security, as I said before, allows anyone with your iPhone phone number to lock you out of your Apple ID

my IPad keeps locking

Yup, can confirm, happens to me too. At least the unlocking works fine.

Same to me. I don't typically go and unlock it right away either but today I did and it locked back up in roughly 3 hrs

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I have two factor setup, have since it was an option, and it is not a solution.

Is there any indication who is doing it to you? I have indication and they are now getting emails from Scientology, Mormons, and several less savory groups.