In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever

Re:In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever by dawnerd on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:05AM (#17132467)

I've actually been having problems recently with my account randomly being locked. I suspect it's bots trying to brute force, but its silly apple would lock my account instead of blocking the requests, especially since I have 2fa. Really annoying resetting my password only to have it happen an hour later. Tech support also has no idea why its happening.

Thing that I just noticed a few hours ago, their password change form has a max of 32 characters and my last apple pass was 64. Wonder if they made a change that broke something?

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Re:In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever by rorso on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:26AM (#17132582)

My kids iPad has been doing the same. It keeps saying we're locked out, and not accepting the (correct) password, and we have to reset the password constantly. No idea why it's happening. I've tried setting simpler passwords (I use KeePass and generate 32char complex passwords by default), but it doesn't help. I never thought of the fact that it could be someone brute forcing it and locking us out, I just shrugged it off as being "typical new-Apple". We're almost completely off Apple devices now because we have so so many problems with them in the last couple years, after being a happy Apple family since the Macintosh SE.

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