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feel like im losing my grip on reality dealing with passwords/accounts nowadays
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Date: September 21st, 2025 9:00 AM Author: anal space roommate Im trying to get an upgrade for my iPhone For some reason, the CS is demanding I login to my apple account, something I never really use, to disable my "Find My" Device lock on my phone
I dont recall my details for iCloud.
I go to reset my Apple password, which then asks me to turn on Bluetooth on my PC and Phone, while scanning a QR code on my PC screen using the phones camera, All while im on the phone already with the customer service guy JUST TO GET THE RESET CODE. Not even to login, this is just to receive a code, to then reset the password
This then "hangs" for about a minute doing jack shit, I cancel out of it with zero progress made on accessing my iCloud bullshit, CS guy is still talking to me
I try another "method" & send a reset code to my email (an older one), which I also dont have the password for
So I need to get that emails pw reset, with an EVEN older "backup recovery" secondary 2FA email acct I break into both of them
I open both of the inboxes, theyre completely inundated with spam , pornbots, 200 popups asking me about cookies, preferences, "smart inbox sorting" etc, everything barely functional & lagging, I cant even sift through to most recent email since its all "smart" sorted by "category" so the only emails I can see are literal porn bots and things selling me fake pills
I get back out of this russian nesting doll of email authentications, back to my Apple account, and finally put in a "code"
"Thank you. We’ll send you an update soon. We are evaluating your information to determine when you will be able to reset your password."
This is what I am now looking at At one point not flame also I was asked if I wanted to enable a fingerprint 2FA for my Hotmail account from 2004, I seriously almost lost my vision Still reeling from all of this
Also I cant upgrade my phone now until I have my account back! |
Date: September 21st, 2025 9:03 AM Author: Ivory Cracking Famous Landscape Painting Generalized Bond I’ve been using an autofill password vault for years, it’s the only way to keep your bearings now. The edge browser has one that is synced with your account so it persists on any device. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49288466) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 9:06 AM Author: Henna Windowlicker Stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49288472) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 9:20 AM Author: anal space roommate I use this but I can never tell where the vault "emanates" from,like, I have a password manager on Chrome, then a different "vault" of passwords under apple, a separate discrete password "app" , keychain etc, none of them seem to be horizontally integrated if I change device, browser
I hit "remember me" everytime, never clear my history etc, still nada
it doesnt really matter anyway since most of the passwords get saved wrong or under the wrong account, then I spend hours pasting in "codes" from my SMS, various emails, fingerprint, face ID etc to break into anything I need its insane |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 11:09 AM Author: soggy senate My work computer (ie the one I actually use because I’m in front of it all day) doesn’t permit these, so I’m constantly changing pw on that but then have to manually update it in Apple. It’s insanity. So now I just do a lot on my phone/ipad which is annoying and not nearly efficient. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49288688) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 11:32 AM Author: anal space roommate This is insane Wtf do u even do |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 11:38 AM Author: soggy senate Use same pw for basically everything, although it’s becoming difficult because some want 16 digits, some want min 10, some don’t permit ___ or require ___. I feel like a boomer. The time required to manage/maintain all this is maddening.
My nightmare today is to “reauthorize” some content in Sonos app. I think they’re my wife’s accounts but who really knows, so I look forward to that tension later. “I don’t have an account there.” “Try your Hotmail.” “ I don’t remember that password.” “It’s stored on your Chromebook.” “James used that for homework and didn’t charge it.” And the Sonos soundbar cuts out for some sources but not others. I want to scream. |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 11:39 AM Author: anal space roommate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49288748) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 9:05 AM Author: Henna Windowlicker Stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49288471) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 10:59 AM Author: anal space roommate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49288649) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 11:12 AM Author: Grizzly business firm new passwords, registrations, and log-ins are becoming like those dreams where you wander futilely from room to room, never reaching your destination. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49288698) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 11:38 AM Author: anal space roommate Update: I didnt accept my Apple recent updates "Terms and Conditions" which apparently rips out the backend on all attempts at resetting your account. Great use of 3 hours (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49288744) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 11:42 AM Author: Glittery violet stag film It's really frustrating and every "advancement" in security and SaaS in general is about making it more difficult for the actual user while lining the pockets of the jewturd firm exploiting you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49288758) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 11:45 AM Author: gay galvanic home new version + every 10% increase in speed its another +20% in privacy violation and +15% in glitches |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 11:45 AM Author: Ivory Cracking Famous Landscape Painting Generalized Bond The worst thing about Apple products is how authentication is tied to their borderline useless iCloud infrastructure - a product that no one with any need for real cloud storage or capacity uses. It is mostly a background process that backs up an image of your phone/device to Apple’s servers, so you hardly ever log in or even remember that you have an iCloud account. But then when you have to onboard a new device, it’s “sign in to to iCloud, then find this 2FA code on your OTHER device and approve it there, then come back here and enter the code and sign into iCloud hehehehe” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49288775) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 12:19 PM Author: anal space roommate its insasne (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49289085) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 12:18 PM Author: Concupiscible Property Affirmative Action If you try to put one foot in or spread the MFA and vaulting across companies you will be in a world of hurt. I have just accepted I will be locked into the apple ecosystem forever and have turned everything into a biometric passkey. I try to login to shit and it just face IDs me on my phone and it’s over. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49289082) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 12:24 PM Author: olive blood rage hunting ground I swear upon all that is holy I will never use a biometric login for anything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49289096) |
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Date: September 21st, 2025 12:23 PM Author: olive blood rage hunting ground I spent 90 minutes fucking around with a similar issue yesterday the details of which I will spare you.
I fucking hate the modern world. If I could revert the human race back to 1960s tech and forbid advancements I would do so in a heartbeat. |
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Date: October 2nd, 2025 2:49 PM Author: click here to Learn More UPDATE:
New iPhone, made a NEW iCloud account while setting it up since my Original account is basically deactivated/condemned by Apple for amorphous reasons with absolutely no way to recover it
The new iCloud got as far as logging into my new iPhone, then it was 'logged out' and locked or made 'inactive' by apple, according to them, its because the brand new account I made through their dumb terminal iPhone, "did not meet the T&Cs" Added bonus: The "inactive" account, is now permanently logged onto the phone, and cannot be removed, as it is "inactive" any attempt to sign in when prompted for the password is met with a "verification failiure" any attempt to sign OUT is also blocked and greyed out, all options to "sign out" are unresponsive to touch also
This renders the phone virtually useless since everything is locked behind iCloud vertical integration, including, contacts, apps, banking
Spend 3 days with Apple CS chat lines and the answer is, they are powerless Got asked to send my proof of purchase, sent it, and they "removed an activation lock" for me which apparently is an entirely different security system which was never engaged on my phone. my iCloud has simply been unilaterally, summarily inactivated on their end, with absolutely no transparency as to why
Phone is still unusable
I have a 3rd handset in the mail arriving tomorrow, what do you even do? Im basically fucked if i risk logging into my brand new phone tomorrow with any iCloud account, since at any moment it seems apple will just "lock" it and make it inactive
I literally made a brand new iCloud to avoid all this, wrote down the password, backed it up, and it was immediately locked down and deprecated on the backend by apple
So the password I had just made, autosaved, and wrote down on a notepad also to make sure I would not forget, stopped working,I was gaslit for hours by CS that I just had the wrong password, until they admitted the account was simply rendered "inactive" by their arcane systems, and there is no recourse to do anything
How does this company get away with this |
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Date: October 2nd, 2025 2:49 PM Author: giygas ffs get an Android at this point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49320105) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2025 2:52 PM Author: click here to Learn More Im too stressed out to change over now I will probably just put my SIM into the new phone, and then just not use iCloud on it |
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Date: October 2nd, 2025 2:50 PM Author: Nothing Ever Happens (🧐) "How does this company get away with this"
everything is computer |
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Date: October 2nd, 2025 2:59 PM Author: click here to Learn More Ive learnt this company has like 45 different account reset routes/processes landing pages, and all of them basically do not result in you gaining any access to your accounts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49320128) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2025 3:16 PM Author: click here to Learn More You will be able to reset your password in 5 days. When it’s time to reset your password, we will send instructions to... Apple Support can’t help you shorten the wait time.
Didn’t make this request? Check for a confirmation message from Apple, which includes a link to cancel it. You may receive this as an email or in your Messages app. Learn More |
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Date: October 4th, 2025 3:17 PM Author: click here to Learn More HUGE UPDATE INCOMING......... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49324923) |
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Date: October 4th, 2025 3:31 PM Author: click here to Learn More I finally got through the byzantine "Live Chat" loop of indians telling me to do the same stuff and linking me to the same landing pages to "reset" my Apple Account. Got them to hand me over to a Senior Advisor.
I got Robocalled and IVR'd for like 5 seconds before a Woman picked up. She then screenshared with me and I showed her the hellish loop I was stuck in on the Phone itself.
She then sent me an email with steps on how we were going to fix it which boiled down to downloading the Apple desktop application.
Email link just sent me to Apple's website with a download link to their desktop Application.
Which is blocked on Windows :) ("This is only available in the Apple Store/App Store") presumably for iMAC only or their OS.
The advisor (a Woman) then told me I needed to "connect the iPhone using a USB"
Fortunately, Apple uses their own proprietary cables now. so I did not have a USB ended cable on hand with my phone!
The Woman advisor then said "uhm. we arent allowed to stay on the phone for time consuming steps (verbatim)" rushed me off the phone.
Got sent a link to my email to "follow up and request a callback" which I clicked and it just took me to their website again, my "ticket" had been marked as an "App store card decline issue." So clearly the Woman basically just dumped my fucking case number into total obscurity, this is after a solid week+ of "case numbers" being applied to all of my "chats"
Spent $5 on Amazon to buy an Apple USB cable. Found the actual desktop app in question on the "Windows App store" which I had to recover a hotmail/outlook for in order to be verified to download an app onto my own PC.
This time, I demanded the Senior Team instead of talking to the tiny pink online chat who have No Powers to Resolve Issues.
This time, a Man picked up the Phone. This Man actually parsed what I was saying. HE , UNDERSTOOD. Guy had an italian accent and was an absolute Apple masterman.
Without being prompted, he immediately differentiated the DISTINCTION between having a LOCKED iCLOUD ACCOUNT and a phone with an ACTIVATION LOCK on it. These are TWO SEPARATE THINGS. That seemingly no one in two weeks wanted to admit to me. Until this absolute italian hero CONFESSED IT.
He then instructed me on HOW TO REMEDY THE ISSUE.
He told me "I am going to give you specific instructions on the sequence of button presses you need to execute in order to RESTORE your phone. Do NOT press the buttons. Wait for me to give you the sequence"
I SAID YES SIR
"Push and hold down the side POWER BUTTON for exactly 5 seconds, then while continuing to press and hold down the side POWER BUTTON connect the USB CABLE to your WINDOWS PC until your screen is populated with the icons of a CABLE AND LAPTOP COMPUTER...." He guided me like we were defusing a bomb in one of those action movies
I executed the secret jutsu, lo and behold. the phone went into "recovery mode" and began purging the deprecated iCloud account. I am now looking at a fully fresh iPhone.
God bless this italian american hero. I hate women & indians
God bless America, this story has a happy ending. |
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Date: October 4th, 2025 3:38 PM Author: click here to Learn More (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49324950) |
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Date: October 4th, 2025 3:43 PM Author: click here to Learn More (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49324953) |
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Date: October 4th, 2025 3:45 PM Author: click here to Learn More need some fucking celebratory bumps in here wtf guys (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49324956) |
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Date: October 4th, 2025 3:57 PM Author: click here to Learn More pay attention to me goyim (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5778256&forum_id=2Ã#49324969) |