I WANT TO TURN OFF TWO FACTOR VERIFICATION!!!!! It is a total pain in the butt and I want the option to turn it off. Help!!!!! How can apple not allow us to turn this time-suck feature off? I want to register my frustration.

Ok I’ve got an even weirder one than that. I sent my mum an invite to my calendar but when she clicked on the link on her ipad a verification code popped up on same iPad but nowhere to enter it on this iPad. We’ve kept going round in circles on this one. Have told her to take it to Genius Bar.

I also had a lot of bother when adding my iCloud account to another iMac. Went round in circles with verification codes for awhile until it took. ~ 2hrs 🙄. I thought may be it was because I had both my laptop and iPhone on the desk in front of me 🏻♀

Anyway it is a bit of a pain.

It really isn't accomodating as it means always having the phone or trusted device to hand. I don't want to be tethered to sitting with two devices at all times.

You can have multiple trusted devices and trusted numbers as well. However, 2FA doesn't require two devices. If the device you're working on is the trusted device, the code will appear on that. The "two" is for two factors, one is your password, the other is the code.

It took me a while to figure out but I did, and how you undo two factor is : you got an email when you set it up, in that email it has the option to go back to original security setting, all you do is click on it, then it askes you the security Q's you have already on your acct...……..but you need that link from the original email right after you added it on ….good luck ! I know it totally sucks out loud...…..I had it on for 1 day only horrible

It took me a while to figure out but I did, and how you undo two factor is : you got an email when you set it up, in that email it has the option to go back to original security setting, all you do is click on it,

Oh! You mean like I explained in my post in this thread from September 10, the one marked "Recommended"?

I work in a "secure" environment. I cannot have my phone in the workplace. Therefore, every time I need to sign-in to icloud, I have to go into the parking lot and get the code off my phone. Then I go back to my office, inside an office, inside a building, to log on. It's the worst.

I work in a "secure" environment. I cannot have my phone in the workplace. Therefore, every time I need to sign-in to icloud, I have to go into the parking lot and get the code off my phone. Then I go back to my office, inside an office, inside a building, to log on. It's the worst.

Why? Do you have a landline on your desk? Set it up as one of your trusted devices. Your could can be relayed to you that way. I have my office phone listed as one of my trusted numbers. It was very handy the day I arrived at work and couldn't find my phone. I logged into iCloud from my work (Windows) computer, got my code called to my work phone and found that I'd left the phone at home. It took less than 10 seconds for the code to be called into me.

Pretty sure Apple has gone the way of a lot of firms in Silicon Valley and hired some really really dumb but arrogant product managers that think they know what's best for everyone.

If you're going to impose something like this as a requirement, think about usability. The constant annoying pop ups and extra logins on the wrong devices, etc, means that this is not ready to be GA. Did you outsource both your product management and QA team to someplace where accountability is non-existent?

hmm.. my post dissappeared..wonder why?

Because whatever you posted apparently violated the terms of use of these forums or was in response to a post that was deleted for violation. If it was your post that was deleted for cause, you will have received an email from the Hosts explaining why. If your post was, as it were, collateral damage, you won't receive any email.

Trusted devices

A trusted device is an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 9 and later,

or a Mac with OS X El Capitan and later that you've already signed in to

using two-factor authentication. It’s a device we know is yours and

that can be used to verify your identity by displaying a verification

code from Apple when you sign in on a different device or browser.

You will still get 6 digit code on the screen to enter

Apple will not allow you to turn off the two-factor authentication, reguradless of how unnecessary or anoying it is. God forbid the customer is right. Someday when Apple is number 2, then 3 or likely not at all they may finally wakeup and stop their arrogant ways.

Apple will not allow you to turn off the two-factor authentication, reguradless of how unnecessary or anoying it is. God forbid the customer is right. Someday when Apple is number 2, then 3 or likely not at all they may finally wakeup and stop their arrogant ways.

Apparently, you don't know much about Apple. They have a long and storied history (going back to the days when they weren't number 2 or even number 3) of providing the customer with what the think the customer needs rather than what the customer says they want. I don't expect them to change anytime soon.

Apple will not allow you to turn off the two-factor authentication, reguradless of how unnecessary

Unnecessary?

Tell that to Jennifer Lawrence, whose nude selfies were circulated on the Internet when her Apple ID (which did not have 2 factor authentication) was hacked.

Tell that to the IRS who now requires it to access your tax data. Tell that to the Social Security Administration, who now requires it for access to your SSA account. Tell that to Google, who requires it for using enterprise cloud apps. Tell that to Medicare and Medicaid, who require it for access to your health care account. And on and on. 2 Factor Authentication is coming to a website near you, if it hasn't already.

I'm

not the IRS, and I'm certainly not Jenifer Lawrence. Bullying people into doing

something whether you're Apple or Google just takes away my rights to choose

how I'd like to use a service I'm paying for. So I guess the only obvious choice

is to not use their services. Honestly, the way that they have developed 2

factor authentication creates more issues than it solves. These guys are

supposed to be smart you’d think they could come up with a better solution. One

that isn't so archaic, and it certainly isn't full proof.

Bullying people into doing

something whether you're Apple or Google just takes away my rights to choose

how I'd like to use a service I'm paying for. So I guess the only obvious choice

is to not use their services.

Apple provides a service. As long as they remain with the bounds of local laws, they are free to structure that service anyway they want. You, as a customer are free to chose whether or not to use that service. No one is forcing you or "bullying" you. Such hyperbole is silly.

I see two problems with the current program. One, they don't really explain it when they offer it. Let us know that when we chose this, there isn't an option to change it, so be careful with how you want your notifications. I'm not super tech savvy and I had NO idea where that "notification" was going. I use my mini iPad a lot, but I don't need the verification for that. I access my iCloud from my PC, which is when it's needed. I'd try to sign in and they'd say they sent a code. Well I had no idea where it went or how to get it! I even called Apple, explaining I was having problems. He never figured out my basic question and the simple answer: Turn on your iPad and it will show on the main screen. I assumed like a bank or other accounts, it would be a phone call to my land line or an email to my account.

The other problem is obviously not allowing us to cancel it. Even now, as I signed in I forgot it may ask me for this. Sometimes my PC saves my password, other times it doesn't. I know there are changes with IP address which probably account for that. But honest, when I sit down to my PC, the last thing I think of is going into a different room, finding my iPad and turning it on.

Lack of communication and options are the problems.