Q: Old iPhone 4 messing up iCloud

There is an old iPhone 4 in a list of phones that I haven’t owned for years. I’m sure it was recycled years ago. It is still in a list of “Trusted devices” that I tried to delete years ago but could not figure out how. Unfortunately whenever I try to sign in to iCloud or Messages, etc, the nonexistent phone is there and I click on it, sending verification codes to a nonexistent phone. Thus I get locked out because I have not entered a code for a nonexistent phone.

This is so stupid. It is one reasion why I swear my next computer will not be Apple. All I want to do is sign into Messages and I have this huge obstacle going back years. The geniuses at Apple have made it so complicated that now its impossible to use.

In addition, now I can’t post a question because I get error:

You are not allowed to create or update this content

Unfortunately this is what I have come to expect from Apple, It just doesn’t work. So many things on my computers just don’t work.