How do I stop the two-factor autentication notifications from continuously popping up on my phones? I already turned this feature off on my apple id account. My phones keep popping up notifications even though I've never set up two-factor autentica

Have you called Apple Support?

That was not suggested to the OP, and they never came back to report success or failure.

A restart should resolve this. If not, Apple Support may have other options not available here.

This is not a source for official Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201232

I believe you have already fixed it, but I will post here as it may help other users.

I had the same annoying alert all the time, since I updated my iOS version. But one thing I did wrong when updated, without noticing I was doing, was to activate the 2FA. When I noticed, I followed the steps to deactivate the 2FA.

But even after deactivating it, these alerts started and never stopped, so I thought it would never end until I activate it and live with it.

But yesterday I took the decision to access my iPhone settings and tap "Continue" in the request of entering my user and password to finish the 2FA settings. For my surprise, when I did it, the alert was gone while my 2FA was still deactivated.

So, my conclusion is that this alert started because I deactivated the 2FA and I needed to confirm this by entering this setting in my iPhone just to confirm. I am not 100% sure this is the case, but as I said it is my conclusion.

At least until now I don't see the warning (that number 1 in the settings icon) and didn't see the alert pop up anymore.

Hope this helps.

While the response to the clearly-phrased question was factually true and correct, the response did not address the question nor did it offer a usable solution. Can anyone actually answer the question? Looks like several people would appreciate an explanation of how to stop the notifications that keep appearing. Thanks.

I am having the same difficulty and have done most of what you have done, not the final part which just galls me, but I guess I will try it. BTW, I never turned on 2Factor and in fact, specifically assured I had it off. Disgusted with Apple.

I share your frustration as I had the same issue - no matter what I did that stupid alert badge would show up and the notification would always show on my locked screen. I did everything outlined in this thread and it worked! Here's what I did:

1. Logged into my Apple ID on my computer. I disabled the two-factor authentication. When I did that I had to set up the three security questions. After all that I logged out.

2. I went to my iPhone and iPad and turned off two-factor authentication: Tap Settings > Tap your name (Apple ID, iCloud, iTunes & App Store) > Password & Security > Turn off Two-Factor Authentication.

3. The annoying badge and notification still showed up on my iPhone so then I did this: Tap Settings > Tap your name (Apple ID, iCloud, iTunes & App Store). On this screen if you scroll to the bottom you'll see a Sign Out option. I signed out. Of course nothing is easy with Apple so I had to go through a couple steps just to sign out of my phone. It wanted to know if I wanted to return data, blah, blah, blah.

4. Once I was officially signed out I went back into Settings and signed back into my account and the badge was finally gone.

I realize that I am responding to an old thread, but I would NOT recommend 2FA.

I had my account compromised (they won't tell me how someone could have done this). Someone got in changed my password and changed the trusted device (which was my phone) to their phone (not sure in which order they did this). I had an iPad that was stolen and they suspect it was done through that. I have been battling with Apple over this. According to them, since I had 2FA and my account was compromised, they won't help me get my account back. In addition, I have thousands of dollars in equipment that is now activation locked and I've lost all of the purchases I've made. Had I not had 2FA, they would have been able to get me my account back.

Apple said that I can dig up the receipts for my devices and have them wiped at an Apple store. I begrudgingly did this and when I got to the store, I was told that my receipts from Best Buy, Target, and the Apple store itself are not valid proof since they don't show the serial number. So now, I have thousand of dollars in paperweights. Apple is flipping me the bird and my kids are crying since they can't really use their iPads. Their favorite game no longer works since it requires an update.

To add insult to injury, I asked them to remove the credit card from my old account. They said No and that I would have to cancel the card. The problem is, I don't know which card was on my account. They won't even give me the last 2 digits so that I can cancel the correct card.

The frustration I am experiencing is beyond belief. Especially, since it is so simple for me to verify my identity and whoever has my account cannot. (I can walk into an Apple Store with my driver's license and credit card on the account....I'll have to bring them all since I don't know which one it is) I also still have access to the email for which the account is setup. That was never compromised.

So......I will NOT be using 2FA.

This does not work, it just keeps coming up an hour later asking me to use two factor authentication. Even the apple support people highly recomend against two factor autentication because it constantly gets messed up and locks you out. it simply causes major problems and data loss they said. So why does Apple keep popping up annoying me to turn on something that is buggy and causes data loss? , i said no at least ten times now and it keeps coming back...

So Friggin Aggravating. An apple rep on phone advice me to not use their two factor authentication because it does nothing but cause headaches and lock outs. Yet now apple forcing me into it, i clear message and it comes back less than a hour later. My guess i have 5 year old iPad and they want me to buy new that i can't afford. So first they make it run butt *** slow with their forced updates and now they are probably trying to lock up my devices like they did you.. So Frustrated... also i wanted to push helpful button on your post and apple has it grayed out so that we can't raise you post to the top. Thus why i am responding. I hope some how you got things worked out...

Hi again, Billparn! Ok, since your message ending with asking Apple to put out a patch to quit annoying us with these two factor authentication notices, they are not allowing me to access your message! Your point has already been demonstrated!!!

Hi As Well KimVonBerg, first time using apple support and yep they censored and deleted my message. Obviously you are correct, apple and/or it's employees are anti make america great. Well i will be. America is no longer Free with bemamoths like this.

i guess apple has no desire to fix the problem, you do what Apple says or else. What good is a support forum if they are going to delete our requests for help to get around an annoying bug or intemtional popup to turn a feature on we don't want. Why dont they just answer with a solution rather than delete my posts and request for help. Grrr, apple really losing me here, was gonna get my Dad an iPad for Christmas, Apple just made me decide it will not be an Apple tablet now.

They probably ban me for good now... Peace Out KimVonBerg..

i am guessing Apple did not want public a reminder of their troubled past and bail out by MFST..

if you ever find a solutin or workaround to Apples bug (undocumented featur) i hope you can somehow notify me through this column.

I'll do what I can, Billparn, to make sure they don't ban you - as long as they don't ban me too! I think everything you are saying is great.. and I would not blame you for switching to another kind of tablet for your dad for X-mas.

I wish one of these Apple people would just take care of this problem!

I travel out of the country and switch to a local SIM card (removing my Verizon SIM card). I often travel where there isn't Wifi. For me, there is no way to use 2 factor authentication. Having these alerts several times a day to "turn it on,"is annoying like others here complain about and we simply just want to "opt out" of this feature.

In addition to this annoying two-factor messaging, now we find out Apple slowed down my iPhone 5 to the point I had to upgrade to the iPhone 7. What a lame excuse, they did it to improve my battery experience. Let's see how long that one stands up in court. Go class action teams!

Even though your instincts tell you not to sign into Two-Factor, if you already followed the instructions above, the only way to remove the flag and pop up notification is to actually "sign in". It doesn't actually turn the feature on.

Completely ******** how Apple set this up.