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<blockquote data-quote="Scotex89" data-source="post: 1754710" data-attributes="member: 335614"><p>Rod, </p><p></p><p>Thank you so much for finding discussion. Unfortunately, my problem is not the same. I have not been locked out of my ID at this point; however, I don't know what the password is that I am logged in with, and I don't have the recovery key. So I can't change my password.</p><p></p><p>I can keep going with everything working as normal, so long as I don't get logged out. But I can't update any software, and I can't deactivate find my iPhone and find my iPad because I don't have the current password. Fortunately, I did not activate find my Macbook Air, so I could start over with another Apple Id on my laptop. </p><p></p><p>Apple did tell me what one of the posters in that link you sent me said, that I can get the engineers to provide me with a temporary password to turn off the find my iDevice. I need proof of purchase. I bought the phone and the iPad through AT&T and a person I chatted to told me she would email me that proof, but she hasn't done it. So I need to follow up on that. If I go that route, I will not not be able to use the devices while the engineers are working on them, and I cannot be without my phone because it is my only one. So I guess I need to start thinking about buying another phone. </p><p></p><p>I can wait. I have all of my iTunes music burned into CDs and copied onto an external hard drive. My photos are all on the external drive too. I seldom used my apple email, and what I have, I still have access to for now. But if I do go to my second Apple ID, I will lose all my apps, I suppose. Many of them were free, so I can get them again.</p><p></p><p>I just need to work on getting the proof of purchase of my iPad and at least get it untethered to the locked ID. And never do two step again.</p><p></p><p>So my situation is not as dire as everyone else's at this point and there does seem to be a solution, but I will never be able to get into my account again once I do log out. Apparently if I had a more recent OS, it would be different. But I am now stuck with 10.10.5.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scotex89, post: 1754710, member: 335614"] Rod, Thank you so much for finding discussion. Unfortunately, my problem is not the same. I have not been locked out of my ID at this point; however, I don't know what the password is that I am logged in with, and I don't have the recovery key. So I can't change my password. I can keep going with everything working as normal, so long as I don't get logged out. But I can't update any software, and I can't deactivate find my iPhone and find my iPad because I don't have the current password. Fortunately, I did not activate find my Macbook Air, so I could start over with another Apple Id on my laptop. Apple did tell me what one of the posters in that link you sent me said, that I can get the engineers to provide me with a temporary password to turn off the find my iDevice. I need proof of purchase. I bought the phone and the iPad through AT&T and a person I chatted to told me she would email me that proof, but she hasn't done it. So I need to follow up on that. If I go that route, I will not not be able to use the devices while the engineers are working on them, and I cannot be without my phone because it is my only one. So I guess I need to start thinking about buying another phone. I can wait. I have all of my iTunes music burned into CDs and copied onto an external hard drive. My photos are all on the external drive too. I seldom used my apple email, and what I have, I still have access to for now. But if I do go to my second Apple ID, I will lose all my apps, I suppose. Many of them were free, so I can get them again. I just need to work on getting the proof of purchase of my iPad and at least get it untethered to the locked ID. And never do two step again. So my situation is not as dire as everyone else's at this point and there does seem to be a solution, but I will never be able to get into my account again once I do log out. Apparently if I had a more recent OS, it would be different. But I am now stuck with 10.10.5. [/QUOTE]
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