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.

It's annoying. My location services and Find my Mac and find my iPhone are always on. I live alone and every time I log in while I'm at home, I don't understand why this is necessary. You know I'm home and my devices are registering that they are at the same location. I could see if I was logging onto either my laptop or desktop, but my phone was showing it was in a completely different location and then you send the verification code as a precaution.

Can't even log into this site without the 2f auth. What a bunch of *****. My iPhone SE died the past weekend and I made the switch to Samsung. This is why Apple. You should listen to your customers. I still have an ipad, which is how I got the verification code, but when that dies, it's going to be 100% Android.

My "Samsung phone number" is the SAME number the iPhone had - same account - yet the auth code doesn't go to that phone, although it did on the iPhone - again, same number. It also doesn't ring my land line - and Apple "support" verified this. So much for your 'helpful' reply.

GB,

I just updated to Mojave on this MacBook Pro and was prompted to turn on 2 factor verification. It did not say I could never turn it off. Now I can't. that is Orwellian.

My wife and I share the same appleid and travel. She just has her iPad with her and does not use a SIM card. No way to communicate....... Nice job!!!

And if I'm not home and she's at the library with this Macbook? Sorry, this was easily foreseeable.....

Lawrence Finch wrote:

And throw in one or more voice numbers.

People really should do this. I got to work one day, couldn't find my phone and need to log in to Find My iPhone from my Windows computer at work. Fortunately, my work phone number is one of my trusted numbers. It took less than 15 seconds to get my code. And, my phone was still at home where I'd left it.

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm in the same boat as many of you. I can't stand this 2 step authentication thing. So, first issue is that the system asks for a code EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. I try to login. Doesn't matter whether its on my old macbook pro or new one i just got. Or on my iphone. Or on any one of our several apple tvs. Or on any of our ipads. Every time we login to just about anything it prompts us to enter the verification code. I've clicked "trust this browser" or whatever it says more times than i can count and it still continues to prompt for a code. I understand it asking ONCE. But every single time?!

2nd issue is that when it says its sending a code it doesnt typically send anything or is sending a code to who knows where. Nothing gets sent to my phone. I double checked my cell from the trusted number and it is. The only way to get a code is to click "i didnt get a code" and then force it to send to my phone.

The main issue is that for some reason the "trusted" part isnt getting saved (sorry don't know the technical wording for it). And we have one older apple tv that wont sign on no matter how many times we put in the code.

Does anyone know if this issue is possibly linked to IP addresses? I wondered if maybe because we use Comcast and i think the IP address changes that was the issue?? I'm grasping at straws here trying to get it to work.

I'm in the same boat as many of you. I can't stand this 2 step authentication thing. So, first issue is that the system asks for a code EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. I try to login. Doesn't matter whether its on my old macbook pro or new one i just got. Or on my iphone. Or on any one of our several apple tvs. Or on any of our ipads. Every time we login to just about anything it prompts us to enter the verification code. I've clicked "trust this browser" or whatever it says more times than i can count and it still continues to prompt for a code. I understand it asking ONCE. But every single time?!

2nd issue is that when it says its sending a code it doesnt typically send anything or is sending a code to who knows where. Nothing gets sent to my phone. I double checked my cell from the trusted number and it is. The only way to get a code is to click "i didnt get a code" and then force it to send to my phone.

The main issue is that for some reason the "trusted" part isnt getting saved (sorry don't know the technical wording for it). And we have one older apple tv that wont sign on no matter how many times we put in the code.

Does anyone know if this issue is possibly linked to IP addresses? I wondered if maybe because we use Comcast and i think the IP address changes that was the issue?? I'm grasping at straws here trying to get it to work.

Can you clarify the following:

1. What are you trying to sign into? When you sign into your Apple Account, you have to provide the code every single time, for example.
2. If you are trying to sign into iCloud, are you referring to iCloud.com?
3. When you indicate that you have told it to "Trust this Browser" do you mean you have clicked on "Trust" on this pop-up:

Are you meeting all of the following criteria when you are performing your sign-in:

Once signed in, you won’t be asked for a verification code on that

device again unless you sign out completely, erase the device, or need

to change your password for security reasons. When you sign in on the

web, you can choose to trust your browser, so you won’t be asked for a

verification code the next time you sign in from that computer.

Have you read this support article: Two-factor authentication for Apple ID - Apple Support

Best,

GB

Yes, it's suck, confusing and I have to have another apple equipment with me all the time. I searched everywhere and they all led to the button that doesn't have the ability to turn it off. I've been entering passwords for about 2000 times already.

That's the point.. Hardly anybody in my country of about 70 million people with more than double that number has mobile phones use phone line anymore. Besides, the point is that I must have another equipment, and it seems once in a while the phone ask me to entre the password for icloud again and again.