Household makes use of a 4th gen Apple TV at residence. (The gadget, not the streaming service that was stupidly given the identical identify.)
I make film/TV present purchases via the Apple TV utilizing our household Apple ID.
I additionally log in to the iTunes app on my iPhone to test that ID’s account stability earlier than making a purchase order via the Apple TV {hardware} – no less than I used to after I nonetheless may. I periodically add to this stability utilizing reward playing cards.
Regardless of refusing to allow the 2FA characteristic for years, by some means it acquired activated for the account. And it acquired linked to my partner’s cellphone quantity. Apple is de facto persistent about making an attempt to lock customers into this horrible characteristic, and employs darkish patterns in its gadget interfaces to trick customers into enabling it, which might be what occurred to me sooner or later.
So now I can not even handle the household Apple ID I’ve been managing for years. I attempted to alter the 2FA cellphone quantity to my very own as soon as, however it didn’t work (resulting from causes I am unable to recall). And even when it is doable to alter the cellphone quantity, I do not need 2FA in any respect until it may well settle for both of our cellphone numbers for verification.
I am unable to buy any content material and even test the account stability until my partner can be beside me, so I can borrow the (incorrectly linked) iPhone.
That is extremely disempowering and irritating, and has already prevented me from making purchases on a number of events. (I miss the times of DVDs.)
Is there a strategy to both:
- Make each cellphone numbers work for 2FA verification
- Disable 2FA for this Apple ID altogether
(Be aware that any proposed options ought to work for each Apple TV purchases and iTunes app login.)
