Mastodawn

Waldo Jaquith Mar 3, 2023

This is my least-favorite iOS dialog box, the one where they want you to type in your Apple ID password. There is no option to get it from your password manager. There is no Apple Watch, Face ID, or passcode option. Because it’s an OS-level dialog box, you can’t check our password manager.

What Apple is telegraphing here is “your Apple ID password must be memorable.” And that is bad. They should stop doing this.

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macrael

@waldoj to be fair, my Apple ID password is the only other password besides 1Password I have memorized. The fact that it restores my backup on a new phone makes it feel like a second factor to me. But still I agree all passwords should be 1Password able.