Hi Matt, > my “Apple ID is being used to sign in to a device near Wembley, WA” is > nowhere near where I live in Noranda, is this normal?
Your location is reported by your ISP, so if their server you are linking through is elsewhere, that is the location reported. As long as you were signing in at the time, it isn't a problem. Kind Regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 6 Mar 2020, at 4:55 pm, Matt Falvey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ronni, I tried those suggestions and although the steps and sequence were > not quite the same I think you have sorted it. Thank you. > > It would not send me the recovery key to my phone or iPad, but each time I > retried it I had a noise indicating that it had been sent just could not find > it, then about ten minutes after I had fixed things after an option of typing > the new password into the screen appeared, 5 or 6 new recovery codes hit the > phone and pad in a few seconds. > > One thing I did notice and it has happened frequently when signing in, is > that the warning that my “Apple ID is being used to sign in to a device near > Wembley, WA” is nowhere near where I live in Noranda, is this normal? I > thought with device tracking it would know exactly where I was. > > Thanks again. > > Matt. > >> >> 1. iCloud Problems (Matt Falvey) >> 2. Re: iCloud Problems (Ronni Brown) >> >> ----------------------------- >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 11:42:00 +0800 >> From: Ronni Brown <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: iCloud Problems >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Hi Matt, >> Did you setup with ?two-step verification? >> If so you should have a ?Recovery Key? >> >> Accounts with two-step verification >> Go to your Apple ID account page and click "Forgot Apple ID or password." >> Enter your Apple ID, select the option to reset your password, then choose >> Continue. ... >> Enter your Recovery Key for two-step verification.* >> Choose a trusted device. ... >> Enter the verification code. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Ronni >> >> ? Ronni Brown?s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >> >> >>>> On 6 Mar 2020, at 8:36 am, Matt Falvey <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> ?Hi, I regularly get messages telling me that ?This Mac can?t connect to >>> iCloud because of a problem with ?my email address? Open iCloud preferences >>> to fix this problem. >>> >>> I have two options ?Later? and ?iCloud Preferences? >>> >>> I choose iCloud Preferences and it tells me ?Enter the Apple ID password >>> for ?my email account? , The password for ?my email account? needs to be >>> updated. >>> >>> I use my stored password and it doesn?t work. So I go to the reset password >>> option and it tells me I can reset the password using the password I use to >>> unlock the computer, I try this and get a spinning wheel of death. >>> >>> In the meantime and every time I have the same message I look at System >>> Preferences and iCloud and it has my photo and my email address there and >>> the option to ?Sign Out? at the bottom, which would indicate to me that I >>> am already signed in. >>> >>> But when I go the Account details, under General it has my name and Apple >>> ID. But once I press Contact I get the message, ?Enter your password to >>> make changes to your account? and it prompts me to enter the password for >>> my email account that it hasn?t recognised previously. >>> >>> Any ideas for a solution anyone? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Matt. >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20200306/a462d9ca/attachment-0001.html> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> End of wamug.org.au-wamug Digest, Vol 103, Issue 9 >> ************************************************** > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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