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Rigby

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Apple recently posted a new support article:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208072

According to this, it should now be possible to generate a recovery key when using two-factor authentication (previously this was only possible when using the old two-step verification). However, I don't see the option described in the article in the "Password & Security" settings on my phone or iPad (which are running iOS 11). Does anybody else see it?

I'd really like to switch back to recovery keys so I don't have to depend on Apple's week-long recovery process in case I get locked out.
 
I have 2FA turned on and I just checked on High Sierra and I don't see anything in the iCloud account settings like described in that article at all.
 
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