I’ll note that Apple only shows the creation date of these passwords, while Google more helpfully in its 2FA Web support shows the last time each was used! Much more useful, and I wish Apple would move to that approach. ![]() This doesn’t affect your 2FA login at all. On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Apple ID, then select Password & Security in the sidebar. You can also click Revoke All and wipe out all your app-specific passwords if you’re concerned about any of your software or Web-based services being hacked. The list shows the creation date of each password, and you can click the x box to the far right to revoke any of them. Click the Edit button next to the Security section, and then you can click View History under App-Specific Passwords. You can manage the passwords you’ve created in order to revoke them, too. That’s one of the advantages of this kind of password. I can show you this app-specific password, because I immediately revoked it. The password can never be viewed again, but it’s stored. In the next screen, copy and paste or refer to the password and enter it in the app or service with which you need to use it.Label the password so you can remember it later if you need to disable it, and click Create.In the Security section under App-Specific Passwords, click Generate Password. ![]() ![]() To create an app-specific password, follow these steps:Ī, which will include the map popup and a six-digit code. Name your app-specific password so you can recall which service is using it if you need to revoke it later. If you turned off two-step and turned on two-factor, all your previous app-specific passwords were wiped out! This is a shame, but you’re starting with a clean slate, so apps and sites you approved long ago and no longer use are no longer a potential threat, too. For services and software that isn’t tied in that way, you need to generate an app-specific password, which was also the case with the older two-step method.
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