How to turn off two factor authentication?

This is absolute nonsense. Specially for find my iphone use. It asked me for my code - duh I don't have my phone how stupid can you get Apple. Apple please sort this out. We don't always carry our laptops or ipads with us when were out... I don't think you people really thought about the consequences of what you've done. Sort it out!!

Thanks to apple for making sure our personal information is secure. Am wondering whether Apple can really allow us to make a choice in this matter!!. I wish there was a warning that once you enable it there is no going back.

intlParent wrote:

This is SUCH a pain!!!! So silly!! WHy would we need ot have access to TWO of our devices to use ONE of them?????

You are NUTS!!!!

You don't necessarily need two devices. 2FA protects your Apple ID, not your devices. The only time you would need a second device or trusted phone number is if you're setting up the device from factory state.

Hello Rich, that is very interesting. Am really intrigued. I imagine your solution can help disable this 2FA from the Apple account not just the device. Please share with me your discovery. I will be very grateful.'

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Now i am not able to see anything on Apple TV, because each time i press on a movie on Apple TV + to start watching it on the TV , my phone gets the apple ID verification code, however, the APPLE TV + is not showing the popup window that will take in this verification code!!.

i am stopping my subscription in the APPLE TV +. this is not user friendly at all!!

I am extremely frustrated with the 2 step whatever! I spend all my time chasing devices to see where Apple chooses to give me a 6 digit code. Then, the device doesn't offer me a place to input it. It's not like a own 20 devices. Why do I have to continually enter my password and and 6 digit code on the SAME device. It shouldn't matter that I log out. You are chasing all of us loyal customers away and making us go back to androids. At least they give me the option of protecting my account or not. It's MY account. I'll take the blame for losing my devices.

ddickens69 wrote:

You are chasing all of us loyal customers away and making us go back to androids. At least they give me the option of protecting my account or not.

No, we're not. We're users just like you. Apple isn't participating here.

It's MY account. I'll take the blame for losing my devices.

2FA protects your account, not your devices.

Apple doesn't choose which devices to send the code to; you do. You can manage which devices get the code. See here:

Two-factor authentication for Apple ID - Apple Support

Its also changed my ID to an icloud email address I've never had, hijacked my music files to the cloud from CDs I have owned for years and I cant get them back I have gone form over 10,000 + songs to less than 500. So Apple I'm off to by a Microsoft PC and a Samsung phone. I will have reload all my CDs on the new PC and wont have any Apple products in my home. I may also mention this to others. Also before this decision was made I spent 6 hours with your "geniuses" at the Apple shop in Chatswood who were, with help form technical support on the phone,completely unable to sort out the problem.

L187 wrote:

Its also changed my ID to an icloud email address I've never had,

It sounds as if you accidentally set up a new Apple ID. Setting up 2FA would not cause any of those problems. I have 2FA and still have a non-iCloud email address as my Apple ID.

By the way, no one here cares very much what you decide to buy. You should buy whatever best meets your needs. Fortunately, Samsung does seem to have solved the exploding phone problem.

Absolutely had enough of apple dictating what I must use I came away from Microsoft for this reason this two factor is a knight mare as don’t always have both devices so constantly Locked out Sort this out I own the devices not you so stop telling me what to do with it you must let us decide about the two factor issue and allow turning it off if required also now my old iPads are unable to connect to the cloud as require recovery key which I was never given I just bought new iPad Pro 12.9 but if they don’t sort this out it’s going back and I’m going to Android I would have to add that I’m sure ther are some civil rights issues here too

The-wolf wrote:

I would have to add that I’m sure ther are some civil rights issues here too

No, there are not. You are not being denied anything based on being a member of a protected class. Please, go buy an Android device.

There most certainly are no civil rights issues with 2FA. You voluntarily choose to use a company’s services, and thus choose to accept their terms of use, which requires two factor authentication. Any and every company is free to set whatever access requirements and limits they wish to for access to their services. You as the consumer are free to choose to use, or not use, any particular company’s services.

But as someone who does choose to use a company’s services, you do not have any rights to dictate the company’s security rules and procedures for the data they are the legally obligated stewards of, on their hardware. If you don’t like the way they secure that data when stored on their systems, then don’t use their services. But they have every legal right to do what they feel appropriate to secure that data, since they carry the burden of legal culpability should that data be accessed by someone who should not have access.

So civil rights don’t even come into the whole issue at all, since none of this has anything to do with individual social freedoms or equality. Everyone is equally free to choose whose online services they wish to use, and which to not use.

L187 wrote:

Are you an Apple lawyer?

This is a user-to-user forum. No one who is participating in this thread works for Apple. If you believe you have some sort of civil rights complaint to make against Apple, you'll need to hire a lawyer. If you're lucky, they won't charge you to tell you what Michael just did.

No, I have never worked for Apple and neither am I a lawyer. But I can read, have a decent education, can think, and know what “civil rights” are and mean. Nobody needs to be a lawyer here to know that “civil rights” and this topic of 2 FA logins to a commercial online service account have nothing to do with each other.

what well i do when i lost both my iphone and my laptop ???!!! how can i get the authentication code??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

If you did not add an additional trusted phone number, you will need to apply for account recovery.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204921