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Some Users Locked Out of Their Apple IDs, Forced to Reset Passwords
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Sometimes I have an Orange.
I wasn't locked out, but I was logged out on all my devices.
I was able to log back in without a password change, but I did have to reconfirm my credit card on file with the App store, which I thought was weird.
Confirmed with card company that it was Apple, and not some third party that confirmed my card.
I was able to log back in without a password change, but I did have to reconfirm my credit card on file with the App store, which I thought was weird.
Confirmed with card company that it was Apple, and not some third party that confirmed my card.
My Apple Music stopped mid song about an hour ago and kept warning me I was not logged in when I tried to play the music again. After logging in and out a couple of times without any joy, I restarted iTunes and it worked straight away.
Happened to me too. I called support for a reason. The staff who talked to me wasn't aware of this issue, because he told me the usual reasons for the locking (ie: somebody trying to login with my ID with a wrong password, etc). I'm glad it's a widespread issue, as it means that it wasn't a specific attack to my account.
Didn’t get the alert for a password reset. About a year ago my iPad went into activation lock all by itself for no reason.
Completely locked me out from using the entire device.
Completely locked me out from using the entire device.
This happened to my wife but not to me. She had to reset her password using her iPhone, then on her computer I had to log her out of iCloud and back in again (well I don't know if it had to, but re-entering the password was not making the message go away that the password needed to be re-entered). We had just changed her to two factor a month or so ago with a new password...
Guess I got mad at my wife for no reason. 
Got locked out mid day yesterday. I assumed it was something her or the little one did since she texted me asking about it. Then I realized all of the things I had with me were asking for logins.
Got locked out mid day yesterday. I assumed it was something her or the little one did since she texted me asking about it. Then I realized all of the things I had with me were asking for logins.
Happened to me this AM too. It seemed like they were having issues with authentication. The 1st time I reset it, it didn't take and I was prompted to do it again. 2nd time, the System Preferences app on my Mac hung and I had to force quit. 3rd time, I was able to successfully reset my password.
Then upon logging in on all my devices, handoff for phone and messages didn't work. I had to reenable it in messages, FaceTime, and Phone settings on both of my phones. Overall, about ah hour wasted setting everything back up again.
Then upon logging in on all my devices, handoff for phone and messages didn't work. I had to reenable it in messages, FaceTime, and Phone settings on both of my phones. Overall, about ah hour wasted setting everything back up again.
I was unable to update iOS apps bought on a secondary account, while logged into my primary account. It kept saying verification failed. I had to sign out of my primary account and sign in to the secondary account to update those apps. I found that disabling two-step verification on the secondary account allowed me to update those apps while signed in to my primary account.
I was bit by this last night also. Such a pain when your password is 25 random characters long.
Apple should do something about these phishing attacks. It would suck if I had to reset my password every time. It's hard to remember my password as it is.
I would promptly redefine my password if Apple solved the login bug which produces a login loop in Apple Support Community.
I had the same thing on Sunday night/Monday morning. Everything got signed out - AppleTVs, iPads, iPhones, Macs.
I was gonna but then decided to wait a bit in case apple sends out another wave of mandatory lock outs. Then we would be doing it twice.
Woke up to it this morning. So far my wife is not affected. I have two factor authentication, but I have had the password for a long time.