Forced to reset Apple ID password.

[town3r]

Anyone else just get signed out and forced to reset their password?

 

[Apple_Robert]

Not today but, that has happened to me 3 or so times over the years. Either Apple has a problems, or someone may have been trying to hack your account and it triggered a reset by Apple.

 

[schmegs]

Anyone else just get signed out and forced to reset their password?

Yup. Just had all my devices logged out at once and the account locked until I changed my password. Not cool.

 

[evansims]

Yeah, had all of my devices forced to sign out, had my account locked and required to do a password change. Been speaking with others on Twitter who had the same thing just happen. I wonder what's going on.

 

[uncming]

Just happened to me as well. Very bizzare

 

[0128672]

I wonder if the password requirements have changed recently [edit: nope, they haven’t changed]. I read on an Apple discussion this happened after a user upgraded iCloud storage, but that seems a bit random.

Macrumors had a story about this in 2018. The users were kicked out and forced to reset the password for security reasons:

Some Users Locked Out of Their Apple IDs, Forced to Reset Passwords

Apple appears to have locked a select group of users out of their Apple ID accounts over the past 20 hours or so, with no clear indication yet as to...

www.macrumors.com

 

[MisterMillz]

If you’re all on iOS 14 or have been, it has to do with Apple’s servers. Some other issues include icloud photos and messages in the cloud. In my case, I can’t delete and disable messages in the cloud. I get the download messages loop. Several senior advisors have told me and others that the fix is coming in a future update.