How to turn off two factor authentication?

Fantastic! You are telling me, there are many insecure remote access implemented in the wild, including Dow Chemicals, Exxon both of which have immense intellectual property to protect. Then there is EPA and FDA!

Good to know. Thank god, I don't use any of them so my credentials are not in the open.

Pall wrote:

Surely, you will say this is all wrong.

No, but I WILL say that your situation is unusual, and that most companies do not use the Citrix app (which costs the company a lot of money if they have a lot of BYOD devices). They instead use MS Exchange with a security profile that imposes company data protection standards on the phone.

There is nothing insecure about it. A company contracts with MS Enterprise services for email, SharePoint, TEAMs and other tools and services, they get to use the MS account admin features to change certain settings on their employees devices to secure company data. It’s no less secure than an Apple MDM is.

MS 365 Business accounts use end to end encryption and all data in SharePoint/TEAMs is encrypted on Azure servers as well.

It actually gives employees full control as if they wish to remove the settings, all they need do is sign out of the corporate MS accounts in the device, and the profile restrictions are removed as well.

Businesses have been using MS enterprise services this way for many years now. It’s a common business model to allow employees to use their personal devices to access company emails and files.

All I see from your posts is your utter ignorance of such systems and their use in businesses around the planet. You might want to read some of the documentation in the Microsoft 365 Business security and Compliance web site.

No, but after using MS 365, and before that Enterprise MS Exchange accounts from my employers with my own devices for the last 20 years, yes, I do know a thing or two about commercial enterprise level MS account deployment and security.

BTW, Google G-suite enterprise commercial accounts also offer much the same sort of thing.

I believe you. You are the expert even though MS moved everything to 0’365 cloud which I use daily without any of the gyrations you describe.

I sign on to 0’365 and One Drive using the same UID/password from my Mac, iPhone and IPad.

Not at all familiar with Microsoft enterprise or exchange. Never used them

Yeah, the commercial accounts are very different from 365 personal. The admin options for the commercial accounts are huge - really necessary though if MS and Google were going to convince companies to drop most or all internal IT and contract it. Between MS for basic email, office apps, collaboration and secure file storage, and AWS for other commercial computing needs, a big company can incur huge cost savings by down-sizing their in-house IT to just a small team of good admins and no or little in-house hardware.

Even for a small company like I work for, MS 365 Business is far more cost effective than in-house exchange servers, large dedicated NAS devices, and admin’ing them. And as the Linux boxes I still have age or die, they won’t get replaced with in-house hardware. I will move their application to AWS virtual machines (a CentOS server is a CentOS server, whenever a box sitting in my server room or up on AWS).

Totally annoying. I have several devices with the same apple ID. and if anyone in the house touches a device while I am trying to use 2factor authentication, I loose the code and have to start all over agin. What happened to choice, I want to turn it off. Especially since I am running more than 1 apple ID. THE MOST ANNOYING AND TIME WASTING FEATURE APPLE HAS EVER MADE. So ****** off especially after loosing my photo library in last upgrade, just about LEAVE APPLE FOR GOOD. Been a supporter for 20year!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Think apple is loosing its way

You can certainly authenticate with your non-Apple phone, just provide its phone number as a trusted number. But if you don't have your laptop and don't carry an Apple phone why would you need to authenticate access to your Apple ID?

To get to my stuff on iCloud.

Or to even reply on this forum because some other apple **** don't work like it's supposed to and apple support is a dead end loop of "have you done the thing that doesn't work?"

toores wrote:

I have a "trusted" phone, but the authentication defaults to my mac so my android phone is useless and my MBP sits at home displaying the 6 digit code.

Simple, add your Android phone as a trusted number, you can have more than one!

I was able to turn off the passcode. Go to Itunes and plug your phone into your pc. Go to your account and you will find a section called Backup. Hit the restore button. Then re-sync your phone. Remember to hit done. Go back to your phone and passcode on/off should be working.

Blueray123 wrote:

I was able to turn off the passcode. Go to Itunes and plug your phone into your pc. Go to your account and you will find a section called Backup. Hit the restore button. Then re-sync your phone. Remember to hit done. Go back to your phone and passcode on/off should be working.

Removing the passcode from the phone doesn't turn off 2FA. They are not the same thing.

Pall wrote:

Okay. Be happy.

support for 10 year old platform ain’t coming but you can ***** and moan freely.

So, you've replied to the wrong person, your technical advice is incorrect we we're the one's who are moaning?

Now I am stuck trying to get my old iPhone 6 setup and cannot figure out how to do it because of 2FA. I just spent four count 'em four hours in one of your Apple Stores working through downloads of new OS for two MacBook Air's, two iPhone's and an old Passport hard Drive. Now I am stuck in setting up one iPhone and caught up in having a second device to use as an authentication. Stupid me cannot figure out what is the living nonsense Apple is talking about. I do know bot device are shown on my Apple Account. That has been a trial because I lost the password during a rework of SSD. That took three 13 day periods of waiting and countless senior advisors. This whole thing is becoming more convoluted than a mainframe. What has happened to the Apple that was user friendly. I cannot even use my iPad and all Apple says it is intuitive. It is NOT and now I will probbaly have to go through all this crap, crud and corruption again for that device. I am behind a firewall, VPN, there are two adults in the house and at the moment both have problems with Apple accounts. Now perhaps one of our dogs or cat will try to get on but I doubt it. This Air rarely leaves the house. Being stolen is NOT a problem. Hackers would have to get through the VPN, firewall, and other malware safety guards and then I cannot understand how to get what should be a simple thing done!

Magillacudy wrote:

Being stolen is NOT a problem. Hackers would have to get through the VPN, firewall, and other malware safety guards and then I cannot understand how to get what should be a simple thing done!

2FA is not intended to protect your device. Its purpose is to protect your Apple ID.

I just spent four count 'em four hours in one of your Apple Stores working through downloads of new OS for two MacBook Air's, two iPhone's and an old Passport hard Drive.

No, they are not my Apple Stores. This is a user-to-user forum. Apple's participation here is minimal.

What devices other than your iPhone are trusted devices? You should be getting the code on one of them.

Two-factor authentication for Apple ID - Apple Support