I forgot my Apple ID password and can’t reset it
Forgot my Apple ID password
Why is Apple Password Recovery so difficult now?
What you have is 2 Factor Authentication.
This is not the normal security setting for your Apple ID but rather a heightened version of it.
The security questions and email recovery is part of what we call secondary authentication.
2FA is user enabled so that means you must've enabled it at some point in time and not realised that you've done so.
2FA utilises mostly trusted devices.
Try this if you have an iOS device signed in with your iCloud account and is protected with a passcode.
Go to settings > iCloud and then tap on your Apple ID. After that, tap on password and security and see if it leads you to a place where you can change passwords
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Edit: Ive since been able to get my Apple ID reset, so this post is no longer relevant 😅 to sum up what happened, after 4 people from Apple support and a whole month (2 weeks from the og post date) after this whole thing started, I got the full story and I got the account back. Had to temporarily use an old phone with a new Apple ID/different email for a week (the duration of the account recovery period) and have my usual phone completely turned off. Turned out I was partially still signed in to my account on my phone, so it kept flagging and the recovery wouldn’t go through since I was still using the phone.
SO, to anyone else having this issue, you may still be signed in to your Apple account on your device(s) and may have to turn them off completely until the recovery period is over. It sucks but it’s only temporary and if you’re like me and got the run around for way too long it is worth the inconvenience of using a temporary device!
Sorry if this is a bit all over the place, this is my first time posting on reddit 😅 (also posted to r/apple but I think that was the wrong one so I’m trying here)
So last monday I tried setting up an iPad that I’d just recently bought, but I couldn’t remember my Apple ID password so I couldn’t sign in. I submitted a forgot password request as I couldn’t change it just by using my iPhone passcode and it went to Account Recovery where I had to a week until today for it to be able to reset. I have now tried again to reset my password, even using my partner’s phone and using the Apple Support app because my own phone would continuously go back to the main settings screen after putting in my trusted phone number. It has given me the exact same message as it did last Monday, saying to wait 24hrs and they will get in touch about how long my account recovery will take. I feel like I’ve just been run around in a huge circle and I really don’t want to have to wait another week just for it to do the same thing again. If anyone can let me know if there’s anything else I can do that would be very much appreciated, I am currently locked out of almost everything on my phone because it’s all linked to my Apple ID.
TLDR ; I forgot my Apple ID password and im am in a loop of account recovery, I can’t reset my password.
I tried to download an app and need the passcode which I think my younger sister changed and can’t remember. She’s able to download apps no problem but I need the Apple ID password.
I tried doing the restart and recovery thing but now to it says something like “code cannot be sent to phone at this time” now apparently my iPhone is locked ?!
It did give me a 1 hour timer but I don’t know where to find that. Anymore.
I’m really stressed has anyone else experienced this before ?? After the timer will I be able to resent it again? The email address is my mothers and she’s not around at the moment
Apologies for the frantic post