iCloud find my is pretty useless on Mac

[aliexp]

I found the find my feature is pretty useless for Macs . I created 2 admin accounts, the first one is signed into the iCloud , and then I logged off and logged into the other admin account to delete the first admin account, the find my won't be able to locate the Mac, and this second admin account is able to log in to another iCloud account. So it works differently than iPhone / iPads which found more secure.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

iCloud is useless in general. I set up an iMac I’ve owned for 1.5 years fresh today. I reached the iCloud sign-in and it informed me that my account is now locked for my security. No prob, I’ve got 2 factor blah blah... nope, it doesn’t know about any of that. I poke around on my iPad, yep, I’m in my iCloud account perfectly fine. Back on the iMac, it demands answers to security questions i would have created when I switched to Apple back in 2007. Otherwise it can email me at a job I worked at 15 years ago. An hour on the phone results in poking around in my account perfectly fine on 5 other macs and iOS devices, verifying my fingerprints, my face, my passwords, my emails, my phone number, and yet still, iClouds staff decide that they can’t be sure I am who I say I am, so I’m then fully locked out for the next 8 hours, and will need to guess correctly at the security questions or break into my old company’s office and set myself up an inbox on their mail server to receive the frking email they send, otherwise all App Store purchases made over the last 15 years will be unavailable, nothing they can/will do about it.

How iCloud kills the Mac.

 

[Apple_Robert]

iCloud is useless in general. I set up an iMac I’ve owned for 1.5 years fresh today. I reached the iCloud sign-in and it informed me that my account is now locked for my security. No prob, I’ve got 2 factor blah blah... nope, it doesn’t know about any of that. I poke around on my iPad, yep, I’m in my iCloud account perfectly fine. Back on the iMac, it demands answers to security questions i would have created when I switched to Apple back in 2007. Otherwise it can email me at a job I worked at 15 years ago. An hour on the phone results in poking around in my account perfectly fine on 5 other macs and iOS devices, verifying my fingerprints, my face, my passwords, my emails, my phone number, and yet still, iClouds staff decide that they can’t be sure I am who I say I am, so I’m then fully locked out for the next 8 hours, and will need to guess correctly at the security questions or break into my old company’s office and set myself up an inbox on their mail server to receive the frking email they send, otherwise all App Store purchases made over the last 15 years will be unavailable, nothing they can/will do about it.

How iCloud kills the Mac.

If I am not mistaken, once your account has been locked, you get 3 chances to guess the correct password and then you are out of luck.

 

[Darth.Titan]

...or break into my old company’s office and set myself up an inbox on their mail server to receive the frking email they send, otherwise all App Store purchases made over the last 15 years will be unavailable, nothing they can/will do about it.

So your personal iCloud account is using an old work email you no longer have access to? You should have changed the iCloud email address before leaving the old job, or not set up a personal account using your work email in the first place.