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And once enabled, you can never disable... Heaven help you if you only have one device, and want to re-auth your account, to get rid of the nag prompts to login again.


It falls back to SMS for 2FA if you don't have a trusted device on the account (e.g. if you only have one device and are doing a reset of said device)


Yeah, and I no longer work for the company with that second device. I don't get the down-votes (Apple apologists). I had to go through this just a couple months ago.


Why would you activate a device from your employer with your private apple id?


I had a similar issue. I removed the device from my account with a call to Apple so it could fall back to SMS.




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