I'm not an apple hater, but some of their account related tools make me nuts.
I setup a family sharing account, and created an account for a small gift card my son received. In my mind, his account would a sub account of the family account - and if I set up an account for him, I could setup parental controls on an Ipad he uses, and he would hopefully learn a life lesson on managing "money."
Set him up, loaded the gift card, and thought we were good to go.
Well - we lost the password. No big deal right? Wrong.
Enter the phone number associated with the account (mine - he doesn't have a phone). They want to verify via email also. (He doesn't need email, so I didn't set up his Icloud email). Because I can't verify the code sent via email, I have to use Iforgot. It took 2 days for them to tell me it will be another 13 days before they can send instructions, while they "monitor how the device connects to the apple servers." .
What sense is sending an email verification to the account where the password is lost? Good security I guess. So good I can't use the account.
I want to use more Apple services, like Apple Pay, but something like this, which stops everything dead, gives me pause.
I setup a family sharing account, and created an account for a small gift card my son received. In my mind, his account would a sub account of the family account - and if I set up an account for him, I could setup parental controls on an Ipad he uses, and he would hopefully learn a life lesson on managing "money."
Set him up, loaded the gift card, and thought we were good to go.
Well - we lost the password. No big deal right? Wrong.
Enter the phone number associated with the account (mine - he doesn't have a phone). They want to verify via email also. (He doesn't need email, so I didn't set up his Icloud email). Because I can't verify the code sent via email, I have to use Iforgot. It took 2 days for them to tell me it will be another 13 days before they can send instructions, while they "monitor how the device connects to the apple servers." .
What sense is sending an email verification to the account where the password is lost? Good security I guess. So good I can't use the account.
I want to use more Apple services, like Apple Pay, but something like this, which stops everything dead, gives me pause.