Security Trusted Devices list is incomplete

If the phones can receive sms text messages, you click on the "Add an SMS-Capable Mobile Number" link listed below your trusted devices. Enter the phone number for each of your phones and they will receive an sms messages with a verification codes that you can use to verify them as a trusted device for your ID. (Devices are only automatically listed when they are using the ID you are setting up two-Step verification for for iCloud and have Find My iPhone enabled using this ID.)

To remove a trusted device, go to My Apple ID , tap Manage your ID, tap Password and Security on the left, tap Manage under Trusted Devices, then tap Remove next to the device you want to remove.

You're welcome. You are correct that you can't remove a device from the trusted device list if it hasn't been verified as a trusted device (I thought it was).

My old phone I sold is still in my trusted devices list but doesn't have a Remove option next to it. It only has a verify option. Do you know how I can remove it?

If it doesn't say Verified with a check mark next to it, it hasn't been verified as a trusted device yet so it can't therefore be removed.

Devices appear on this list because they are using the ID you signed into for iCloud, and have Find My iDevice enabled. Are you still signed into your iCloud account on this device with Find My iphone enabled?

I wiped/reset the device (iPhone 4) to factory defaults, removed the AT&T sim card, and sold it on eBay. So I don't think I'm signed into iCloud on that device.

It may just take a while to drop off the list then. Not sure.

I have the same situation: an iPhone and an iPad, long since reset to factory defaults and sold on eBay, still appearing in my list of Trusted Devices.

My three questions are:

1. Does this represent any significant degree of security exposure for me?
2. Will this interfere with the ability of the purchasers to use these devices as Trusted Devices associated with their own accounts?
3. How can I break my relationship with these two devices?

I called Apple Support and received the solution to removing a trusted device that does not have a remove option from appleid.apple.com:

1. Log into iCloud.com

2. Click on Find my Phone

3. Click on Devices (you'll see all your devices listed)

4. Click on the device that you are trying to remove as a trusted device from AppleID

5. Click again on Devices (again you'll see all your devices, but this time there's an option to remove the device)

6. Remove the device

7. Log into appleid.apple.com and the device will no longer be listed as a trusted device!

Bingo! Very un-Apple-like resolution, since it's completely undiscoverable without searching for instructions like this. But it worked perfectly. Thanks!

In other words the Find my Iphone list == the trusted device list. This is an incredibly lazy design decision. Just because I want to be able to find a device doesn't mean I want to trust it.

I can easily imagine a process for un-trusting a device, though I hope I don't need to use it:

1. Remove from the Find My iPhone list

2. Go to the device and re-enable Find My iPhone, but don't re-enable trust stuff.

I have recently found out that this isn't necessarily true.

For example, I have old devices in my trusted device list (not verified of course), and they do not appear in the Find my iPhone list of devices. The devices were wiped and are long gone, but still appear in the two-step verification device list.

Seems there is absolutely no way of removing these!

Did you try my instructions, above? I was in the same boat (I gave away a wiped device, only to discover a year later that it was still listed as a trusted device but without a remove option).

Did you read my post?

Unfortunately for me, the devices do not appear in the Devices list on iCloud/Find my iPhone. Only my active devices appear there.

I'm also having a similar issue with iCloud Keychain, where is show a list of multiple copies of my MacBook Pro that has come from where I have reinstalled OS X Mavericks. There is also no way to get rid of those. Apple seems to keep some seperate device lists on your iCloud accounts, and you have no way of accessing them to remove old/obsolete entries..

I have a similar problem. My IPad shows up twice in the trusted device list. I remove it from iCloud and one still shows up saying it is offline and requires verification. Very annoying!