Wow. How interesting. That is something I have never heard of. I don't have a Windows PC with iTunes, but I do have a Mac, so I will have to check into this. Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 26, 2016, at 5:48 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Mary, > > I don't own any Android devices, but I wonder if that is one of these cases > where you need to log into your Apple account and get a one-time password or, > as some places call it, an app specific password. > If you use two-factor authentication for Outlook.com you need such a password > for setting up your email on a PC in Outlook 2016. > I just signed in to my account at http://appleid.apple.com and Apple does > call these type of passwords app-specific passwords. > Once you are signed in you can just go to the Security section (Security is a > heading level 2) and then you have several heading level 3 items: Password, > Two-Factor Authentication, Trusted Phone numbers and then you come to > App-Specific Passwords. Underneath that is simply a "Generate Password" > button, activate it and if you are using Windows with Jaws you get dropped > into Application Mode and are in an edit box. You can enter a label for the > password you are generating, e.g. Apple Music. Then find and activate the > "Create" button and a password will be generated. The password that is > created will be sixteen letters in groups of 4 with a dash in between each > group, here is an example of one I generated: > sndm-zuup-arlp-ckxi > Try to generate a password like this and use it when you sign in to Apple > Music on your Android, if you aren't prompted to enter the security code > displayed on your iPhone then this should work. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Mary Otten > Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 5:26 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Apple Music with two factor identification on an android device > > It seems like this sort of falls right between these lists, so I hope nobody > on either one decides to send flames my way. I have a Nexus six android > phone, and hopefully soon will have a Z TE Exxon seven mini. I have had an > Apple Music account since it started a few years ago on my iPhone, then on > the Nexus, when that became available. It has worked well on the iPhone and > continues to do so. Recently, I upgraded to two factor authentication, which > requires that you get a code which you must type in before your device can > have access to your Apple ID and account. The Nexus six had worked great up > until I had to redo everything with the two factor identification and my new > password. So, what you do is you type in your Apple ID if it's not already > there, which mine was, then you type in your password and sign in. At that > point, you get an identification code from Apple, and you get a note on your > android device telling you that you must type this identification code into > the password field after your password. On Apple products, the code field > where you type is separate from the password field. So, on the Nexus, after > being told that you have to enter this code, you have a retry and a cancel. > cancel takes you completely out of the dialogue and back into the program. > Heading retry gives you access to the same fields as before, Apple ID and > password. Apple ID is filled in. At this point, if I type my password > followed by a space followed by the necessary code, I get told that my > password is wrong. If I run it together with my password, same thing. It's > wrong. I am out of ideas. Has anyone successfully signed in to an android > device with two factor identification for an Apple ID? > Mary > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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