How to approve an iPhone (Mac and iCloud)

Instead of logging into the iCloud website, has anyone tried approving an iPhone by having a look at the iCloud settings on an associated Mac where the iCloud account has been set up and is signed in?

>Apple Menu

>System Preferences

>iCloud...

Might there be an alert there that triggers approval of the phone? Disclaimer: I don't know that this is correct, it's just a thought.

you are the most amazing star to have figured it out!! it worked for me too. I would just add, how to turn on your keychain in iPad or iPhone: in settings app, go to accounts & passwords, then into iCloud (under accounts) and in there you will find the keychain switch.

YOU ARE SOOOOOOOOOOO GREAT!!!! After a week, my friggin Xs is FINALLY...FINALLY...FINNNNNAAAAALLLLYYYY approved doing this and everything is still the same!!!! Apple reps couldn't even help me, espcially since they no longer allow you to turn off two factor!! You're a gem!!!! 😍

Thank you!

You should be on level 100.

I just got a new iPhone SE and the 'approve this iPhone' message and verification codes between my iPad and new phone has been driving me mad. I'd searched loads of forums, watched YouTube, read Apple guidance and bought 'iPhone the complete manual' - all to no avail - I even managed it once by accident, but then the phone still wanted to approve (and I couldn't remember how). And yes, I'd held off from resetting as I thought it might wipe the phone but no it doesn't. All it does is switch off the keychain, and that annoying approve message and remove the red '1' under settings, everything is still there. Then I switched iPhone keychain back on, no spurious messages.

Cheers!

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So after signing into icloud from my mac and it still didn't work, I turned my phone off and the mac finally approved the phone. I was able to sign in on the phone and on the mac and everything was resolved... only took 3 hrs to update the phone to make this work 😟

I'm having the same problem on my iPhone. I have entered my apple ID and then it asked the passcode used to unlock the iPhone, so I entered this. Now I am stuck on the "approve this iPhone". It says go to one of my other devices so I went to my macbook but no message popping to approve this so I tried logging into my apple id via website, still nothing. How can I approve this! So frustrating.

So the solution was simple for me all I do was turn on key chain on both of the devices, the one I was approving, and the one I was using to approve the other device. After that I just de licked that notification from the start, and filled out my password, passcode, and this time it sent a message to my phone asking if I wanted to approve my IPad

This works! After trying over and over, I found this post, and tried it, and it works! After a month of not being able to get this done, it's done, and the notification is gone, and both devices are connected to iCloud. Thanks so much!

this information was not helpful! 😟

How did you resolve this? I have the same problem and cannot find a solution on this site that works

I signed into my iCloud account on my MacBook and my phone gave me a verification code, which I entered on my computer to sign into my iCloud account. Still, nothing is happening on my phone.

What happens if you click the bottom link?

I was able to activate the iCloud services, and I’m still receiving the two-factor authentication passwords, but the message to approve the device is still on

my phone is doing this too 😟 need it fixing!

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