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Hopefully this should make sense, as it's not the clearest thing to try and explain. So, I have my iCloud account on my iMac, which I've had for about 11 years. I have certain important documents saved to iCloud, plus my 'contacts' app which I also use for note taking etc.
Now at some point, I've obviously enabled 2 factor security and this isn't an issue in itself. However when I login on my windows PC (Which is relatively new) irregardless of if I use a browser, or the win 10 icloud application that sits in my task bar, occasionally I get asked to login again, with user and password. OK, all good so far, but here in lies the issue...
Whenever I am asked to re-login, It always wants to send a six digit code to my iMac as 'security'. It never wants to use my phone (non iPhone) despite having the number and even when I need to re-login on my iMac, it still sends the security code to the very same iMac that I'm using....
Eventually, my iMac will probably give up the ghost and no longer work, so what happens then, when I cant use my iMac?
I understand that I can't turn off 2 factor authentication (From Google Searches) but can I force it to send the code to my phone instead?
Hopefully that explains my potential issue - That I'm worried that when I can no longer boot up my iMac, that I'm gonna be locked out of my iCloud account on my PC (despite having the email and password etc) as I wont be able to get the code, that it insists on sending to the iMac? Thanks in advance for any advice
Now at some point, I've obviously enabled 2 factor security and this isn't an issue in itself. However when I login on my windows PC (Which is relatively new) irregardless of if I use a browser, or the win 10 icloud application that sits in my task bar, occasionally I get asked to login again, with user and password. OK, all good so far, but here in lies the issue...
Whenever I am asked to re-login, It always wants to send a six digit code to my iMac as 'security'. It never wants to use my phone (non iPhone) despite having the number and even when I need to re-login on my iMac, it still sends the security code to the very same iMac that I'm using....
Eventually, my iMac will probably give up the ghost and no longer work, so what happens then, when I cant use my iMac?
I understand that I can't turn off 2 factor authentication (From Google Searches) but can I force it to send the code to my phone instead?
Hopefully that explains my potential issue - That I'm worried that when I can no longer boot up my iMac, that I'm gonna be locked out of my iCloud account on my PC (despite having the email and password etc) as I wont be able to get the code, that it insists on sending to the iMac? Thanks in advance for any advice