HT201303: Security and your Apple ID
Learn about Security and your Apple ID
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Sep 11, 2014 8:36 PM in response to wrubelsby gail from maine,No. This is for your protection and security.
Cheers,
GB
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Sep 11, 2014 8:37 PM in response to wrubelsby gail from maine,Unless what you are receiving is actually Spam. Are you signing on from different computers? Different browsers? Is the message asking for any personal or Apple ID information?
Cheers,
GB
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Sep 11, 2014 8:42 PM in response to gail from maineby wrubels,no its not spam. im actually signing in from my web browser. the thing is i've been doing so for well over a year now and this just started happening.
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Sep 11, 2014 8:46 PM in response to wrubelsby gail from maine,What browser are you using? And are you signing on via your device or via a computer?
Cheers,
GB
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Sep 12, 2014 1:45 AM in response to wrubelsby Roger Wilmut1,As a new security measure Apple are sending emails whenever you (or anyone) signs into your iCloud account. They come from noreply@insideicloud.icloud.com and take this form:
............ Dear Roger Wilmut, Your Apple ID (XXXXXXXXXXXXX) was used to sign in to iCloud via a web browser. Date and Time: September 7, 2014, 4:13 AM PDT If you recently signed in to iCloud.com, you can disregard this email. If you have not signed in to iCloud.com recently and believe someone may have accessed your account, you should reset your password at My Apple ID. Apple Support Note that they address you by name, and that the links (which you can check in Mail by hovering the mouse over them) are to the legitimate sites. Fake emails usually don't address you by name, and more particularly the 'reset' links are to obviously non-Apple addresses. In any event you should as a matter of course go to appleid.apple.com by entering it in a browser, not following links in emails. However as long as the emails look like the example here they are legitimate. Whether they are indeed a useful security facility is open to some argument.
You can't actually stop them. If they are coming to your iCloud address you could go to the iCloud website, go to the Mail page, click on the cogwheel icon at bottom left, choose 'Rules' and set up a Rule to move all messages from noreply@insideicloud.icloud.com to another folder you previously created, or the Trash. If they are coming to a non-Apple address you can do the same thing in the Mail app on your Mac (presumably also on mobile devices though I don't know about that).
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Sep 14, 2014 9:11 AM in response to wrubelsby wrubels,Just spoke with apple support and they said this was setup as of September 8th due to the negative media about celebrity hacks and that there is no way of having the notifications removed
i would expect better from apple.
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Sep 14, 2014 3:34 PM in response to wrubelsby gail from maine,What do you mean you would "expect better from Apple"? Why is this a big problem? And why would you object to a simple email that alerts you to a sign-in to your iCloud account. Just delete it....
Would you prefer that Apple ignore the security issue and not protect you from potential hacking by alerting you each time a logon has occurred?
I don't get it....
GB
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Sep 14, 2014 11:01 PM in response to gail from maineby Roger Wilmut1,Apple can't win - they get yelled at for not providing enough security after dim celebrities are conned into giving away their passwords, and then when they introduce tighter security they get yelled at for that.
@wrubels - you can set the emails to be quietly moved to another folder, or deleted - see my post above.
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Sep 15, 2014 7:42 PM in response to wrubelsby antoname,Let`be honest.
This all is about that celebs hack and to not lose reputation Apple made this "hotfix" with emails.No one wants to recieve these annoying messages because it`s like a spam.
And also not everyone can configure filters on his devices.
So i hope that there will be a new, smarter fix or just an option to disable email notifications.
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Sep 15, 2014 7:46 PM in response to antonameby gail from maine,Oh, for the love of pete - how many times a day do you sign onto iCloud.com? Is it really that difficult to click on the item and then on the trash can?
Geeeeezzzzz.....
GB
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Oct 3, 2014 7:16 PM in response to wrubelsby raresolid,Hi,
You will receive this message any time someone uses your username and password to access Find My iPhone or when they log into icloud from a browser or other iOS device. If you DID NOT log into these services at the times indicated in the e-mail you may want to change your password as it could mean that someone knows your account details and is logging in without you knowing. This feature can not be turned off at this time and was enabled as a security precaution after the nude celebrity photo fiasco. If you no longer wish to receive these notifications in your e-mail; the only current way of getting rid of them is to create a rule in your e-mail program to send the apple e-mail to spam or trash as soon as it's received in your inbox.
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Oct 4, 2014 4:22 PM in response to wrubelsby Star Traveler,BUT ... "security" and "naked pictures" are a TOP PRIORITY ... and your irritation is not ... :-) ...
And for good reason Apple has chosen security over your irritation.
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Oct 20, 2014 8:46 AM in response to wrubelsby Ken Alan1,Apparently there is no way to shut this off, but the work-around is to create a SPAM filter in your Apple email that specifically looks for the email subject (or a portion of it) and automatically deletes it.
As for the comments that suggest this isn't a major annoyance: I get 300 emails a day and log into my iCloud account a half dozen times a day, so I really don't have time to look at 6 of these alerts from Apple every day. It just adds to the clutter. Fortunately I have two levels of SPAM filters that get rid of 99% of the junk mail.
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Oct 20, 2014 8:49 AM in response to Ken Alan1by Star Traveler,Set a folder up for those particular e-mails and then "route it" into the folder. You won't have to look at them, except when you think you need to. It's a good service for your security, so I wouldn't try to delete them or put them into spam, but just into their own folder and then they are out of your immediate attention of your inbox.