phishing ??

Hi,

I’m using iPad Pro 12.9, 11.4.0.

I use outlook software app for my email.

Last week I received an official looking email stating I requested a password reset for my iCloud account.

I did not request it, nor had I signed into my iCloud account for a long time. I ignored and deleted the email.

This morning I received two of the same emails, within two minutes of each other saying again I requested the password reset, of course I had not requested it.

All emails had links in it to the iforgot.apple.com address. I have never clicked on it of course.

What was different today is that when the email came the dialouge box popped up for my settings menu to update my “Apple ID settings.”

So I’ve checked the site here to see if anyone else is reporting this type of phishing, but I do not see that. When I signed into my icloud account it says it had been locked for my security and I had to go through my verification questions to get into the account. And when I did it showed my normal caligirl username.

My question is, how do I know if this is phishing, and most importantly why was my iPad able to pop up a dialouge box asking me to update my “Apple ID settings” in my general setting when the emails arrived. I still has the red notification in my general settings. But do not want to update anything until I know for sure what exactly is going on.

On one hand it seemed fishy, but then in the other hand it seemed like it might be ok.