How to turn off two factor authentication?

i was able to sort it out, visit your email concerning the activition of the two factor verification. You would see something like "Return to previous settings". Hope this helped.

adambaby23 wrote:

Kindly please get my two factor authentication off

Kindly please read the "Apple recommended" post at the top of the page.

See if these help...

View and manage your Apple ID trusted devices on Mac - Apple Support

Change Trusted Device list for your Apple ID on Mac - Apple Support

Go to https://appleid.apple.com and sign in. You can update the number there, under Security.

Re: “… How to turn off two factor authentification? [Sic] …”

Even the most cursory review of this voluminous thread might have informed you that this simply isn’t going to happen.

unbelievable that we don't have the option to turn off two factor. I had no idea all the places (such as simply ordering a movie) this would interrupt work and play. Let us decide how to best use our system. This is NOT customer friendly in any way. Big brother does not know best.

“Should” is meaningless. It is what it is, acceptable or not.

Its the way the world is headed. Many US government services now require it. My banks and investment houses all require it. Google requires it for corporate accounts.

This is ridiculous - I have an iPad for my mom and she does not live with me and now this is caused her to not be able to use her iPad because she keeps calling me for the password and code to enable her device. This is probably the final straw for me with Apple products.

No one participating in this thread or reading it had any hand in creating or implementing two-factor authentication. If you want to let Apple know how you feel, use the feedback page:

Product Feedback - Apple

Meanwhile, if you're being asked for the 2FA code more than every couple of weeks, I'd say there's something wrong. You might want to explore what that is.

That’s just silly, even the Apple Support techs have admitted to me they can’t get Two Factor turned off. Stating there need to be a whole IOS update to fix. Per Tech Support customers are pretty well upset.

You can only turn it off within 2 weeks by going to the original email. I just went through this with apple customer service # (horrid experience which I figured out on my own). I turned it off because I kept getting pop up that someone on the other side of my country was trying to sign in whenever we tried to do anything on my devices. I get that it goes off IP, but then that isn't really a security feature in my opinion. The apple customer service lady went off on me how now my ID isn't secure and I will lose everything if someone hacks my account. This is after I tried asking how is it secure if you are telling me to accept a log-in from another city. Tried changing my password, but kept getting same pop-up. Plus on top of the 'allow/don't allow' pop-up, all these PIN numbers are needed on the devices whenever you try to do anything like rent movies, buy apps or songs, etc. Then I was randomly getting the pop-ups for no reason which was the final straw. By end of call I was so frustrated I told her to go read all the apple.com message boards about this exact issue rather than tell me this is the first she's heard of it. I imagine eventually we will have no choice with future updates though. Would be nice if Apple actually acknowledges anything from these message boards.

I DON'T want to see an option to turn 2FA off.

Permitting that kind of mechanism would provide another path of exploit for someone who wants to compromise your device AND mine and everyone else's.

That's an excellent point, one I think that needs to be made more often. Along with Lawrence's point that even if someone thinks they have no sensitive information in connected to their Apple ID, there is far more than they think.

I posted this a couple of pages back, but to save you the trouble of looking for it I repeat my post here:

And there is a very good reason to have extra security for an Apple ID that is not connected to or used for accessing sensitive private information. I was working with a user just yesterday whose Apple ID was hacked, the hacker changed the password and took control of the account and started using it to send out thousands of phishing emails. They also made iTunes purchases with it, and spam bombed all of the contacts on the phone. The hacker also now has personal information from that user's contacts, including names, addresses, phone numbers and for some birthdates and personal notes. All of the information that is needed to steal the identity of these innocent victims of the user's carelessness in not securing their Apple ID account adequately. While they haven't done it yet the hacker can also disable and erase the phone, even though they don't have possession of it. The user still has not regained control of their account because all of the personal information at appleid.apple.com was changed, so there is no way for Apple to verify the identity of the user.

Sadly, the people who don't want 2 factor authentication frequently are the same people who use weak passwords.

Oh, and no one here cares what you buy.

They do provide a way for people to regain access to their account:

If I can't sign in, how do I regain access to my account?

If you can’t sign in, access a trusted device, reset your password, or receive verification codes, you can request account recovery to regain access to your account.

Account recovery is an automatic process designed to get you back in to your account as quickly as possible while denying access to anyone who might be pretending to be you. It might take a few days—or longer—depending on what specific account information you can provide to verify your identity.

Also, in order to avoid a situation where you do not have access, you should set up as many Trusted Phone numbers as you can. Trusted phone numbers can be another iOS device or an Android. It can be a landline. It does not need to be a phone number that belongs to the Apple account holder. It can be a friend's number, your Mom's number, your own landline, your partner's phone number. As long as it can get a text (or in the case of a landline, an automated phone call, it can be used.

Once you have set up more than 1 Trusted Phone number, the additional numbers will remain on your Apple ID even if you change your primary device and replace it with a different phone number.

GB

Yes, it appears you can turn off two factor verification. I was just reading an article, and it says that you can unenroll in two factor verification for a period of 2 weeks, and then set it back up with the privacy setting that does NOT require two factor verification.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915

However, I'm in the middle of MBA midterms, and haven't been able to look deeper into it. The article is a little ambiguous to me. I can't tell if you can only turn it off when you first turn it on. I hope an Apple tech reads this thread, because I need to turn it off, because my husband needs to access iCloud in an area where he has internet access (limited), but no cell service..

I'm going to be checking further into this later this week -- frankly, I trust Apple far more than I'd ever trust Google and Microsoft, who make a lot of money selling our information. Have you heard about the latest Google privacy violation in Europe? Just a thought. For a corporation, I think Apple does a great job.