{"id":9631,"date":"2014-09-17T12:48:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2021-07-03T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T18:19:16","slug":"icloud-adds-support-for-app-specific-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/icloud-adds-support-for-app-specific-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"iCloud Adds Support for App-Specific Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/ht6186\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/ht6186\"><p>If you use iCloud with any third party apps, such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or BusyCal, you can generate app-specific passwords that allow you to sign in securely, even if the app you&rsquo;re using doesn&rsquo;t support <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/ht5570\">two-step verification<\/a>. Using an app-specific password also ensures that your primary Apple ID password isn&rsquo;t collected or stored by any third party apps you might use. Starting on October 1, 2014, app-specific passwords will be required to sign in to iCloud using any third party apps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&rsquo;ve also added two-factor authentication <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2014\/09\/16\/two-factor-verification-for-icloud-com-is-back-following-recent-hacks\/\">for the iCloud.com Web apps<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2014\/09\/apples-two-factor-authentication-now-protects-icloud-backups\/\">iCloud backup<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple: If you use iCloud with any third party apps, such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or BusyCal, you can generate app-specific passwords that allow you to sign in securely, even if the app you&rsquo;re using doesn&rsquo;t support two-step verification. Using an app-specific password also ensures that your primary Apple ID password isn&rsquo;t collected or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-07-03T18:19:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"f3fcde8f-c218-40e5-8560-f619fa2cd0d8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-07-03T18:19:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8_zej8IYQOWFYPYZ-izQ2A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,707,16,48,2090],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-id","tag-icloud","tag-security","tag-two-factor-authentication-2fa"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9633,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions\/9633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}