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Title: What to do when your two-step Apple ID account is locked Post by: HCK on June 25, 2018, 04:05:14 pm What to do when your two-step Apple ID account is locked
<article> <section class="page"> <p>I woke up on a Friday morning, groggy with allergies, a mild cold, and a message on my iPhone. I needed to enter my password to proceed. I did so, but only after checking that it wasn’t some kind of phishing message—the message was generated on the home screen and using iOS, not in a browser or an app.</p><p>After entering my password, my iPhone said, “This Apple ID has been locked for security reasons.” I needed to go through an unlock process. I presume my account was locked because someone had attempted to log in and had too many password failures.</p><figure class="large "><img src="https://images.idgesg.net/images/article/2018/06/mac911-apple-id-locked-100761540-large.jpg" border="0" alt="mac911 apple id locked" width="700" height="395" data-imageid="100761540" data-license="IDG"/> <small class="credit">IDG</small> <figcaption> <p>Apple warns you when it’s locked your account.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3282465/security/what-to-do-when-your-two-step-apple-id-account-is-locked.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: What to do when your two-step Apple ID account is locked (https://www.macworld.com/article/3282465/security/what-to-do-when-your-two-step-apple-id-account-is-locked.html#tk.rss_all) |