As of 2015, Apple went and made it necessary to turn 2-factor authentication on in order to use iCloud email on devices and platforms not made by Apple, such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and all throughout Android. The enabling of 2-factor authentication is fine, but the app specific passwords do not seem to be accessible.
When I go to http://appleid.apple.com, sign in with my Apple ID and password plus six-digit auth code if need be, go to security and app specific passwords, I can generate a password for an app. Once it's created, the screen reader says that the new password is xxx yyy zzz. But, when I go to paste it into the app for which I created it, it's not there, and I cannot get to it at all. It shows that I've created and labeled the password, but I've no way of capturing it so that I can paste it thereinto. How would I accessibly do so?
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App specific passwords.
Hello
I went through this a while ago to get one to submit apps to the app store.
I ended up using a ipad to do it as using a windows machine was impossible.
I have not done this with a mac as i do not own one.
Sign into the apple id site
try and find the security edit button.
this will show a view passwords history
On a windows machine the revealed passwords are not actionable in any way.
The ipad method must have worked as i have done this.
hope this helps in some way.