No Generate an App-Specific Password option

shmiusa wrote:

This is the key issue......where is it? how come everywhere they say go that option to generate one?

This is a 3 year old discussion and it isn't clear to me exactly what you are asking. During that time Apple has implemented a newer option in security.

If you are asking where to go to generate an app-specific password, see Using app-specific passwords - Apple Support

If that isn't the question, you may want to start a new discussion with more details.

If you are asking where to go to generate an app-specific password, see Using app-specific passwords - Apple Support

This is precisely my question.....If you go thru this link (trying to locate that Using app-specific passwords), it is just not there. In other words, there is no such thing to click.

OK...I tried this after creating 2 step verification and found app-specific passwords....still the same problem. The problem is: while checking email in my Windows Outlook (where I have hotmail, gmail, yahoo email accounts), icloud says password out of date...

Do you have 2-step verification enabled for your Apple ID? If you do the words "Two-step verification is enabled" should be near the top of the Password and Security page of Manage Your Apple ID and the Generate an App-Specific password should be further down as shown in the screenshot below.

If you don't have 2-step verification enabled, you don't need an app specific password.

I'm a believer in 2-step -- but I've never heard of an email client application requiring that you use 2-step with your email provider. I don't know much about Postbox but I think it highly unlikely that they require it.

If it was a desktop where you hadn't previously logged in. If it is a desktop you use regularly you only need the additional code the first time you log in.

I have a second text number (my wife's cell phone) set up where the code can be easily sent. I would need to call or text her from someone else's phone in order to get the code. Both Apple & Google 2 step also have backup codes or recovery codes, which for me would be more difficult to get to if I needed them quickly.

I've been using 2 step from everyone that offers it for the last year or so (shorter in the case of more recent offerings). There was a small initial learning curve of figuring a few things out (like the app specific password thing) but once set up it has been completely painless.

That I can't help with! 😉

This is the key issue......where is it? how come everywhere they say go that option to generate one?

Did you replace your usual Apple ID password for iCloud in Outlook with the app-specific password?