Apple Sued Over Not Letting Customers Disable Two-Factor Auth After Two Weeks

Just yesterday I got this email from Apple:

--- In an effort to keep your account more secure, two-factor authentication will be required to sign in to your Apple Developer account and Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles starting February 27, 2019. This extra layer of security for your Apple ID helps ensure that you're the only person who can access your account. If you haven't already enabled two-factor authentication for your Apple ID, please learn more and update your security settings.

If you have any questions, contact us.

Best regards, Apple Developer Relations ---

They seem determined to make it harder and harder to do anything without tying an Apple ID into everything. :(

I have signed up for this one. I do not believe it is frivolous as Macrumors asserts. This is a big problem for me as an Apple Developer. I enabled two-factor by accident during one of my frequent reinstalls and I did not get around to trying to turn it off until 3 weeks later—one week too late.

I maintain a large number of older IOS devices for testing my apps. They do not cache the trust information, so they require two-factor at every login. I also reinstall MacOS frequently so I can convert legacy code out of old versions of Xcode, requiring various old versions of MacOS. Two-factor is kicking my butt every day.

I talked to Apple support, but they told me to get stuffed. You would think they would treat their developers a bit better.

I recently bought a new Samsung tablet.