two factor authentication

Hello. I want to add a family member who has two factor authentication enabled. However, I do not want 2FA and my account does not have it enabled. If I add this family member, will it convert my account to 2FA? I don't want to try adding them unless I have an idea of what will happen. Thanks...

Can icloud email addresses somehow be set up to where it is linked to a phone number within the settings of the actual email itself? I am trying to access an old icloud account I have but every time I try and sign in, it tries to send a two factor auth code to my old phone number that I no...

Hello all, I am getting yet ANOTHER annoying notification from Apple on my recently purchased Macbook Pro laptop, and want to stop it.... I am getting a pop up in the right hand corner of the screen telling me about Two Factor Authorization, which only has the option to click Not Now, but...

Hi All, wondering if you can help with this one. In the event if you lose your iPhone and wants to sign into iCloud to disable (or lock, or erase) your iPhone. Would Two-Factor Authentication stop you from doing so? (i.e. does it require you to have your iPhone with you in order to log into...

Using Spark for email, sometimes outlook, and I'm randomly getting asked to enter my 'password' which is of course, another round trip into iCloud to set one up. Again. It happens on the desktop, on the phone, on the Apple TV. It's a royal pain in the ass and pretty soon I'm going to have to...

Hello, i recently broke my iPhone and completely messed up the screen. Before i got it fixed, it kept ghost tapping the screen and typing in passwords. It is now completely disabled. I have no backup because i don't have enough cloud space to do so. I can't connect to iTunes because when i try...

Seems that iOS 11 expanded two-factor authentication, but please correct me if i'm wrong. When you log in to iCloud.com, you are presented with a 6-digit code entry and the notification on the iDevice is much more informative.

I followed another threads advice to disable the two-factor authentication cause it was not working... it would send a code for my phone to my iPad but then the code did not work! I tried several times. So I opted out of the whole thing but am still seeing the prompt to set this up every time I...

I have an older Mac Pro on OSX Mavericks that I would like to stay on Mavericks because of certain software comptability (like Aperture). The strange thing is that if I -for example- want to perform an software upgrade it comes with the iCloud login message box and when I enter my credentials it...