How to use Apple ID to create passwords for your apps<article>
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<p>Apple upped its account security for Apple IDs years ago to prevent unwanted and unauthorized third-party access to all your information. Apple relies on Apple ID across all its software and services, but third-party software can only gain access to three kinds of data: email, contacts, and events.</p><p>Apple requires web-connected and native mobile or desktop software—on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and others—that want to use any of those three kinds of data to use a special kind of access. You create a so-called
app-specific password for each piece of software to which you want to grant access.</p><p>Google and other ecosystems offer a similar approach to reduce the opportunity for exploitation. Apple lets this password be used for email, contacts, and events; some other systems require you lock it down to one of those three services, or even to a task as specific as “retrieving email.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3512017/how-to-use-apple-id-to-create-passwords.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to use Apple ID to create passwords for your apps
