When you do have an iPhone, iPad or iPod, you can now verify your trusted devices on which you can receive verification codes without the use of SMS. You’ll receive a verification code via SMS which you’ll need to fill out on the website. This can be any phone and doesn’t have to be an iPhone. If you hadn’t already, you’ll now need to configure the phone number of at least 1 trusted device which can receive SMS messages. Read the provided explanation and instructions and click on Continue. Enabling Two-step Verification will turn off this recovery method and you’ll get a Recovery Key instead. This can also be a long string (at least 16 characters) of random characters. If you do not want to enable Two-step Verification or if you are in a geographic location for which Apple hasn’t implemented it, you might be off best with a very complex code word. This is actually quite a security hole since most of the answers can be easily obtained from social media these days (and that is actually how the iCloud accounts of celebrities got compromised ). On the bottom right, you’ll see a section about Two-Step Verification.Īlso note the sections “Security Questions” and “Select your birth date”. In the section on the left, scroll down to: Security.Step 1: Enable Two-Step Verificationįirst, enable Two-Step Verification for your Apple ID account: As an alternative, you can reconfigure Outlook via the iCloud application. However, enabling it means that you need to generate an App Password for use in Outlook as Outlook does not (yet) provide native support for iCloud’s Two-Step Verification. If you haven’t enabled it already, enabling Two-Step Authentication for your Apple ID and iCloud is a good thing. You mentioned that and Gmail accounts can be protected with Two-Step Verification.Ĭan I do the same for my iCloud account in Outlook?Īpple also offers support for Two-Step Verification for iCloud when you have it enabled for your Apple ID. I was investigating how I can improve the security of my iCloud account.

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