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

I'm just trying to find out how to stop my phone from popping up notifications about two-factor authentication. I have turned this feature off on my apple id account and have never set it up on my phones. I am constantly seeing a pop up notification for two-factor authentication and my Setting app is constantly showing the red badge app icon notification. It is a bit annoying. Can anyone help? I've tried searching and am just too ignorant. I just get more and more frustrated trying to find some help.

iPhone 6s, iOS 10.3.1

Posted on Apr 13, 2017 10:03 AM

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Posted on Apr 17, 2017 6:25 PM

It may be the order in which I did certain things. It is also possible that, in my rage, I missed doing something that was laid out in the suggestions sent to me or the documents I read.


In any event, what I did was to grab all my devices and the first thing I did was sign out of my Apple ID account on all my devices and powered them off. Then, I signed in to my Apple ID account on my computer and verified that two-factor authentication was not turned on, that I had selected my security questions and that all my information was up to date. Then, one by one, I connected each of my devices to iTunes and ensured I had the most up to date OS and synced them. Then, I signed back in to my Apple ID on each device. When I did that, everything seemed to sync up and the notifications went away.


I understand the rationale behind using two-factor authentication and appreciate everyone's advice. It is still possible I may activate the two-factor authentication at some point, if it is more secure. What I had is being forced to do things. I hate when my free will is taken away. I hate when things get complicated or require me to use more than one device to prove who I am; that defeats the purpose.


In any event, if it is helpful, this is what I did and it seemed to work. I hope it helps you. I'll stop my ranting now and stop posting on this thread, unless someone asks me a direct question that requires a response.


Have a blessed day.

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Jul 21, 2017 8:48 AM in response to ijustthrewupinmymouthalittle

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.

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