Warnings about new device added?

[snerkler]

Over the past few months I have had a handful of pop ups on my apple devices (MBP, iPhone, iPad) saying that a new device has been added to my account and has access to my FaceTime and iMessage and if I don't recognise it I can remove it from system settings. Each time I have checked my devices list and there is nothing there that I don't recognise and shouldn't be there.

Is this just a glitch or should I be concerned? If it's a glitch, is there a way to stop it please?

 

[Starfia]

In addition to genuinely activating a new device and enabling iMessage or FaceTime on it, I may sometimes have seen these notifications after restarting and using a device I hadn't used in a while, or after installing system updates. (Perhaps some part of those processes effectively momentarily removes and then re-enables access?) I wouldn't take action unless I thought they were unmistakably too frequent to be symptoms of things like that.

 

[snerkler]

In addition to genuinely activating a new device and enabling iMessage or FaceTime on it, I may sometimes have seen these notifications after restarting and using a device I hadn't used in a while, or after installing system updates. (Perhaps some part of those processes effectively momentarily removes and then re-enables access?) I wouldn't take action unless I thought they were unmistakably too frequent to be symptoms of things like that.

Thanks, that makes sense actually as I did use my old MBP the other day. I'll keep an eye on it and see if I can correlate it to things like this and/or updates.

 

[MarkC426]

I had this recently when I installed macOS onto an external drive to boot from.
When I re-selected the internal drive as the startup volume, I had to log back into iCloud etc (so got the messages).

This is pretty normal, as a security feature….
Your message should have said ’a new mbp (approx location)’…etc.

 

[AZhappyjack]

In addition to genuinely activating a new device and enabling iMessage or FaceTime on it, I may sometimes have seen these notifications after restarting and using a device I hadn't used in a while, or after installing system updates. (Perhaps some part of those processes effectively momentarily removes and then re-enables access?) I wouldn't take action unless I thought they were unmistakably too frequent to be symptoms of things like that.

I've also experienced this when logging into iCloud. It's annoying, but not sure how to get around it, and appreciate being able to get alerted about issues... Logging back into iCloud on a device generates this alert on all Macs, my iPhone, my iPad and my Apple Watch... overkill, for sure.

 

[fibercut]

Over the past few months I have had a handful of pop ups on my apple devices (MBP, iPhone, iPad) saying that a new device has been added to my account and has access to my FaceTime and iMessage and if I don't recognise it I can remove it from system settings. Each time I have checked my devices list and there is nothing there that I don't recognise and shouldn't be there.

Is this just a glitch or should I be concerned? If it's a glitch, is there a way to stop it please?

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Hit had to do Network guys worked users could USB thumb drives so Mac guys in domains turned off USB ports for users! So thank to ex-employees snd thugs drives for this the next time!

 

[MareLuce]

Same thing happened to me. Thank you for posting @snerkler

 

[iamxx]

I just caught this post after searching for this issue. It happens sometimes within what's normal, but today I was an an Apple store and it popped up with a few of these on my phone for no apparent reason, and then when I got home and opened my Mac a few more popped up. When I try to find it in system settings, I can't see what to check. Anyone who would know where to got to be sure this was OK? On my watch these things shouldn't have been on at all. TIA!