can you give a brief explanation of turning on two factor authentication with apple? i’ve always declined turning it on thinking it would be a pain, because i thought every time i need to login, i’d have to go get another ipad or my phone to verify in some way. i have a smart phone but rarely have it next to me or even turned on. i just don’t enjoy staring into a phone all day like so many. is it as simple as doing it one time per device and do i get the verification number from my google authenticator app, which is on the ipad? it’s posts like the one quoted below in an apple 2fa youtube video, that scare me!
“Apple - making easy things unnecessary complicated. Like reactivating my apple ID ten times a year. What a PITA. Sometimes I get an option to just have an email sent with a click link and sometimes 1 am in a loop of "no active ID", "Please reset your PWD" and "cannot reset PWD because ID is not active" shyte.”
but, then another comment post makes it sound simple.
“Apple's two-factor authentication works so smoothly that I haven't noticed that I've been using it for a long time. You don't have to open up an authentication App or your Messages App, it's just a pop-up.”
