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<blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1928691" data-attributes="member: 67742">My assumption right now is that this is my son's old iPhone but that someone in the family activated it.I should be able to tell for sure when I contact my son later today (he is at work) since I have the IMEI number, the serial number etc.Right now I was going to check the various family Apple accounts to see if an iPhone 8 is registered on any of them, but ran into another problem.To get into my own Apple account, Apple seems to want to force me to set up 2FA, but to do that I seem to either need an iPhone or macOS Catalina or later.I also don't want to use 2FA via a cellphone because in Canada, due to a CRTC regulation, that set up is being used for fraud.All financial institutions I use allow 2FA via land line which is far more secure that via a cell phone.I found an Apple website that lets one set up 2FA that way, iforget.apple.comI tried that, got through all the capchas, security questions to the end, but when I entered the phone number for 2FA I don't get a phone call with the 6-digit verification code.Tried several times, also using a borrowed cell phone requesting a text message - just does not work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="krs, post: 1928691, member: 67742"] My assumption right now is that this is my son's old iPhone but that someone in the family activated it. I should be able to tell for sure when I contact my son later today (he is at work) since I have the IMEI number, the serial number etc. Right now I was going to check the various family Apple accounts to see if an iPhone 8 is registered on any of them, but ran into another problem. To get into my own Apple account, Apple seems to want to force me to set up 2FA, but to do that I seem to either need an iPhone or macOS Catalina or later. I also don't want to use 2FA via a cellphone because in Canada, due to a CRTC regulation, that set up is being used for fraud. All financial institutions I use allow 2FA via land line which is far more secure that via a cell phone. I found an Apple website that lets one set up 2FA that way, iforget.apple.com I tried that, got through all the capchas, security questions to the end, but when I entered the phone number for 2FA I don't get a phone call with the 6-digit verification code. Tried several times, also using a borrowed cell phone requesting a text message - just does not work. [/QUOTE]

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