# "Update Apple ID settings". Which ones?!?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-apple-id-settings-which-ones/827066>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 1, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-apple-id-settings-which-ones/827066 "2019-01-01T23:57:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-apple-id-settings-which-ones/827066/1 "2019-01-01T23:57:17Z")

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Had to change my Apple ID password a while ago.

Now I’ve got a little red and white 1 on my Settings Gear on my iPhone.

I click on it, and there’s a message: “Update Apple ID Settings.”

So I click on the little arrow and get a new panel with a new message: “Some account services require you to sign in again.”

Which ones?!? What’s the point of a message like that? How do I know which ones need to be updated?

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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-apple-id-settings-which-ones/827066/2 "2019-01-02T00:07:24Z")

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Are connected to the your account - which is also your iCloud account? Your name and connection should be the first thing you see right at the top of settings. If you open the sub-menu, it will show just below your name which Apple ID (which email) you are connected to.

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**Author:** ![icbm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@icbm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icbm)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-apple-id-settings-which-ones/827066/3 "2019-01-02T00:56:29Z")

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imessage, facetime, icloud, and find my phone all sign-out when you change your apple password. There could be others that I don’t use routinely. Go through the settings for each of those apps or launch them and it should prompt you for the updated password.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-apple-id-settings-which-ones/827066/4 "2019-01-02T01:00:49Z")

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All of those are working normally and don’t ask me for the Apple ID. I’m puzzled.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/update-apple-id-settings-which-ones/827066/5 "2019-01-02T03:58:07Z")

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A warning- once you enable two-factor authentication you **can not** disable it. I tried to look up a procedure to do it without reasonable success. The only one I found said to deactivate the phone for 2 weeks and it would reset. D’OH!