Two-Factor Authentication and Developer Accounts: inessential.com
@brentsimmons Apparently the trick is to add dedicated user accounts to your Mac, one for each Apple account that you are not otherwise signed into.
@brentsimmons It is messy. I wish Apple supported the standard one-time code protocol that works with Google Authenticator, 1Password, and the like.
@brentsimmons not to mention if you ended up with two by accident because of how the old systems worked.
I ended up with one non-email based one and one based on my iCloud address. Can’t merge them. Have to keep and use both because of purchase histories.
Then we have accounts on build machines etc. now they need devices logged in!?
@johnbrayton theres actually no need if you add iCloud to a temp account and then remove it. It should then validate via phone all the time: www.jonathant.com/2019/02/1...
@jonathant Interesting. I didn’t know that Apple’s 2fa would fall back to SMS if the account was deleted. Thanks.
@brentsimmons actually, you can add additional secondary iCloud accounts to any of your iPhone or Mac, (on iPhone > Settings > Passwords & Accounts), disable syncing for Mail, Contacts, Calendars and Reminders, which will cause the account to be listed as Inactive, BUT you'll still receive two factor codes on these devices.
@brentsimmons I can confirm that @thatguygriff's trick works. They ask you for a phone number for SMS codes, and then when you are prompted to add trusted devices, you can just skip to the next step. You will then get an auth token via SMS when you log in.
@ryanbooker Oh, this all sounds so familiar. And like, if you drop your phone at the wrong moment...
@jmac3665 😂 there is an annoying but completely functional workaround for the 2FA pop up issue: 1. Make dummy account on Mac, log in to iCloud, and enable 2FA. 2. Log out of iCloud and the account, then delete the account. 3. Add a second iCloud account on your iOS device in Passwords & Accounts. 4. Rejoice. You now have full 2FA including the pop ups for both accounts on the one device.
@brentsimmons thankfully my dev and account are one @mac.com account for ease (ages ago) I didnt create a seperate dev account but makes total sense to do so. Fair enough 2FA is good but Apple should have thought about transition better, clearly a lot if not the majority of devs will have 2 accounts ☹️
Any idea why this post lost its line breaks?
Off-hand, I’d guess you didn’t leave a blank line between the intro sentence and the first item of the list. (Both lists and blockquotes need to have blank lines before—and after, if you have more text after.)