How to recover an iCloud account when a factor for two-factor authentication goes missing<article>
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<p>Two-factor authentication (2FA) is highly recommend with your Apple ID, especially for iCloud or iTunes and App Store purchases, there’s one drawback: you need access to a second factor, or you might wind up losing everything associated with your account.</p><p>Normally, this shouldn’t be a problem. The second factor for Apple’s system is always at least one Mac or one iOS device plus a phone number (one that receives either text messages or voice calls, so a landline is an option). It would seem an unlikely scenario in which you lost all of that at once.</p><p>You can also add other phone numbers as backups, which is what my wife and I have done with each other’s cell numbers. Even if we lost access to our devices and our own numbers, we could still log in. (Telephone numbers can be reassigned, and hackers sometimes socially engineer or otherwise shift them for identity theft or worse purposes.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3268864/security/how-to-recover-an-icloud-account-when-youre-missing-a-factor-for-two-factor-authentication.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to recover an iCloud account when a factor for two-factor authentication goes missing
