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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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elle mundy

@waldoj @Quinnypig while i agree it’s bad that the password manager doesn’t work here, i don’t think memorable passwords themselves are necessarily bad. they could be in the style of xkcd’s “correct-horse-battery-staple,” where there’s sufficient entropy to stave off even dictionary-based attacks for a sufficiently long time, let alone brute force