Managing your Apple ID is a little bit easier, thanks to macOS Catalina. Here's everything you can do to manage your Apple ID on your Mac.
Apple recently emailed Apple ID users with two-step verification enabled to inform them that, upon installing iOS 11 or macOS High Sierra, they will be automatically updated to its newer two-factor authentication method. Apple introduced two-factor authentication in 2015 as an improved version of its two-step verification method for securing an Apple ID account with both a password and a. Jun 18, 2020 Tap your Apple ID username. If your device is offline, tap Get Verification Code. If your device is online, tap Password & Security Get Verification Code. From your Mac: Go to Apple menu System Preferences, then click Apple ID. Click Password & Security Get Verification Code.
Not on macOS Catalina? Look at our older guide:
Where's Apple ID on Mac?
You can find everything to do with Apple ID on your computer under System Preferences.
- Click on System Preferences on your Mac Dock.
- Select Apple ID.
How to view the Apple ID and Privacy policy on Mac
Apple has made it simple to access the Apple ID and privacy policy on Mac. To review it:
- Under Apple ID, click Overview on the left side of the window.
- Click on the box, About Apple ID & Privacy.
- Scroll to view policy.
- When complete, choose OK.
How to set up your Apple ID name, phone, and email information on Mac
You can change your Apple ID name, phone number, and email information directly from your Mac.
To change the name:
- Under Apple ID, click Name, Phone, Email on the left side of the window.
- Tap Edit next to Name to edit the first and last name on your Apple ID account.
- Change Name.
- Choose Save.
You can also change the birthday next to the account by clicking Edit next to Birthday.
To add a phone number to your Apple ID:
- Under Apple ID, click Name, Phone, Email on the left side of the window.
- Click on the **+* under the Reachable At box.
- Toggle Phone Number.
- Add the Phone Number.
- Click Next.
You'll receive a verification code at your phone number to confirm the addition of the new digits.
To add an email to your Apple ID:
- Under Apple ID, click Name, Phone, Email on the left side of the window.
- Click on the **+* under the Reachable At box.
- Toggle Email Address.
- Add the Email Address.
- Click Next.
You'll receive a verification code at your email to confirm the addition of the address.
How to set up your Apple ID password and security information on Mac
You can change both your Apple ID password and security information on Mac.
To change your Apple ID password:
- Under Apple ID, click Password & Security on the left side of the window.
- Click Password box. Notice the last password change date.
- Enter your current password or computer password, depending on what the popup message says.
- Add new password.
- Verify new password.
- Click Change.
- Choose Sign Out or Don't Sign Out. Doing so will force all devices and websites that use your Apple ID to sign out.
Your Apple ID password has been changed. You may need to log into your account again on other Apple devices.
If you have Two-Factor Authentication, you can edit your trusted phone number and generate a verification code from the Apple ID settings on your Mac.
To add a new trusted phone number:
- Under Apple ID, click Password & Security on the left side of the window.
- Click Edit next to Trusted phone numbers.
- Click +.
- Confirm your computer password, when applicable.
- Added new phone number.
- Toggle how you want to verify the new number, either through a text message or phone call.
- Click Continue.
- Add the verification code you receive.
- Click Continue.
To delete a trusted phone number:
- Under Apple ID, click Password & Security on the left side of the window.
- Click Edit next to Trusted phone numbers.
- Highlight the number to delete.
- Click -.
- Confirm the deletion.
To generation a verification code:
Trusted phone numbers are used to verify your identity on other devices. You can generate a code to sign in to another device or at iCloud.com. To do so:
- Under Apple ID, click Password & Security on the left side of the window.
- Click Get Verification Code.
- Note the code.
- Click OK.
How to set up your Apple ID payment method and shipping address on Mac
You use the payment and shipping preferences in macOS to change the payment and shipping information associated with your Apple ID.
To change payment information:
- Under Apple ID, click Payment & Shipping on the left side of the window.
- Click Detail to change your credit or bank card information.
- Add the payment method and billing address.
- Click Save to confirm.
To change the shipping method associated with your Apple ID:
- Under Apple ID, click Payment & Shipping on the left side of the window.
- Click Edit to change your address.
- Add the address.
- Click Save to confirm.
How to set up your Apple ID iCloud settings on Mac
You can organize which of your Mac apps use iCloud and also examine and change iCloud Storage under Apple ID on your computer.
To add or remove Mac apps that use iCloud:
- Under Apple ID, click iCloud on the left side of the window.
- Check the Apple Mac apps to use with iCloud.
- Click Options or Details buttons next to any app that has additional settings.
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- iCloud Drive: You'll find information on the apps that store data and documents in iCloud.
- Photos: When iCloud Photos are turned on, you'll see further details.
- Keychain: An option button appears when you aren't using two-factor authentication. Click the button for more information.
- Find My: Use this to turn Find My on/off.
Optimize Mac Storage: Select this checkbox to store the full contents of iCloud Drive on your Mac if there is enough disk space. Older documents are stored only in iCloud when disk space is needed.
To review and change iCloud storage:
- Under Apple ID, click iCloud on the left side of the window.
- Check the Apple Mac apps to use with iCloud.
- Click Manage next to iCloud Manage.
- Click Change iCloud Storage Plan to review and change your plan.
- Choose a new storage plan.
- Click Next.
- Confirm your iCloud login, when applicable.
- Click OK.
To review iCloud storage details:
- Under Apple ID, click iCloud on the left side of the window.
- Click Manage next to iCloud Manage.
On the left side of the screen, you can adjust the following settings:
- Family: View members of your family and the amount of iCloud storage each is using; click Open Family Sharing for more information.
- Photos: You can turn off iCloud Photos by clicking Turn Off and Delete.
- Backups: Locate the latest backup information for each device; highlight, then click - to delete the backup.
- Messages: To stop using Messages in a Cloud, click Turn Off and Delete.
- Mail: Select Open Mail.
- Siri: Choose Disable and Delete to stop using the Apple voice assistant on Mac.
How to set up your Apple ID media and purchase settings on Mac
To change your Apple ID media and purchase settings on Mac:
- Under Apple ID, click Media & Purchases on the sidebar.
- Check the Use Touch ID for Purchase, if applicable. Otherwise, you can decide when to require a password for purchases made on the App Store, Books, Music. and TV Stores
- For free downloads, the choices are Require Password, or Never Require Password.
- For purchases and in-app purchases, the options are Always Require Password, Require after 15 minutes, and Never Require.
You can click Manage next to your account name to review your App Store account. You can also select Manage next to Subscriptions to look at your current App Store subscriptions.
How to view and manage your Apple ID trusted devices on Mac
Your trusted Apple devices are available to review under Apple ID on Mac. For each, you'll find a link to Find My on the web. There's also a button to use to remove Apple Pay from the device(s), when applicable. You can also remove the devices from the same location.
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More than four years ago, Alicia Katz Pollock wrote “Five Ways to Reset a Lost Administrator Password” (17 January 2014), and through the vagaries of Google’s search algorithm, it remains our most popular article to this day. Apparently, lots of people forget their macOS passwords or need to help friends or clients who have lost their passwords.
Unfortunately, that article is long past its shelf life, so here’s a current guide to resetting an admin password in macOS 10.13 High Sierra. As before, you can accomplish this task in a variety of ways, depending on how the Mac in question was set up and what information you know.
Reset the Password from Another Admin Account
The best-case scenario is that there is another admin account on the Mac for which the password is available. If that’s true, you can log into that account and change the password for the locked account:
- Open System Preferences > Users & Groups.
- Select the locked account in the list at the left. (If necessary, click the lock at the bottom of the window and provide your admin credentials.)
- Click Reset Password.
- Enter the new password, verify it, and (optionally) include a password hint.
- Click Change Password.
The only problem with this method is if the locked-out account is logged in, you can’t modify it. The easy solution is to restart the Mac, log in with the admin account whose password you do know, and carry on from there. To forcibly log out the other user while rebooting, you have to enter an admin username and password.
If you don’t currently have an extra admin account on the Macs you take care of, it’s a good idea to create one. Just make sure it has a strong password that you’ll remember.
Reset the Password Using an Apple ID
What if there is no other admin account available? You can use the Apple ID associated with the account in question to reset the admin password, but only if these conditions are true:
- You know the Apple ID’s email address and password. If you don’t know the password, but you have access to the email address, you can reset the password at Apple’s Apple ID page.
- The “Allow user to reset password using Apple ID” checkbox in System Preferences > Users & Groups must be selected. This setting won’t appear if FileVault is enabled.
To get to the point in the login process where you can reset the password, click the question mark that appears on the right side of the password field or just try to log in three times. After the third failed login attempt, the Mac will prompt you with the password reminder, if one is set, and give you the option of resetting the password using your Apple ID.
Then enter the Apple ID email address and password and follow the onscreen instructions.
Reset the Password Using the Reset Password Assistant
If the “Allow user to reset password using Apple ID” option isn’t enabled, or the previous method doesn’t work, there’s still a way to use Apple ID credentials to reset the admin password. You’ll need to use Apple’s Reset Password assistant, which requires that you reboot into macOS Recovery and use Terminal:
- To enter macOS Recovery, restart the Mac. As it’s starting up, press and hold Command-R until you see the Apple logo, at which point you can let go.
- Once in macOS Recovery, ignore the main window and choose Utilities > Terminal, which opens a Terminal window.
- In that window, type
resetpassword
and press Return to open the Reset Password assistant.
Either way, once you’re in the Reset Password assistant, select “I Forgot My Password” and click Next.
If the account for which you wish to reset the password is a standard account, rather than an admin account, all you have to do is enter a new password.
Canon imagebrowser for mac sierra 10. For an admin account, you’ll instead have to enter the password for the account’s associated Apple ID. (If you don’t know it, you can click “Forgot Apple ID or password?” to move on to the Apple ID recovery process, which may require your trusted phone numbers.) Once you have entered the necessary password, you may be prompted for a two-factor authentication verification code, which will arrive on another device connected to that Apple ID. (If the Mac is your only Apple device, you should be able to receive the code from a phone call or SMS text message.) Finally, you’ll get to a screen where you can enter a new password and password hint.
What If You Use FileVault?
FileVault encrypts the Mac’s boot volume, making it readable only after the appropriate login credentials are entered, typically those of the primary admin account. The process for resetting the admin password changes a bit if FileVault is turned on because FileVault eliminates the option to reset the password with Apple ID credentials.
Fortunately, the method remains simple: enter a random password three times at the login screen, after which you’ll be prompted to reset the password using your Apple ID or recovery key.
Apple notes that you may still have trouble logging in with the new password after all this, and if so, suggests that you use the Reset Password assistant to reset the password again, using the “My password doesn’t work when logging in” option and following the subsequent instructions.
I hope your FileVault recovery key is stored in a safe place, like 1Password or LastPass! If it wasn’t saved or you can’t access it, you may want to turn off FileVault before you get into a situation where you can’t log into the Mac. In my experience, it’s easier to back up the drive, erase it, and then restore it, than it is to turn off FileVault.
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Dealing with the Keychain
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The keychain is an encrypted container associated with each user account that stores login credentials for apps, network servers, AirPort base stations, and Web sites accessed in Safari. It’s easy to forget about the keychain because it is typically protected by the same password used to log in to the account. As a result, resetting the password for an admin account means that you can no longer access the keychain for that account. Sorry, but there’s no way to recover that information.
After resetting the admin password and logging in again, you will likely receive an alert that macOS was unable to unlock your login keychain. Click Create New Keychain to start fresh. If you don’t receive the alert and have problems with the keychain, follow these steps to reset it:
- Open Keychain Access from
/Applications/Utilities
. - Choose Keychain Access > Preferences and click Reset My Default Keychains, which creates a new keychain with no password.
- Log out of the account by choosing Apple > Log Out Username.
- Log back into the account to tie the account password to the new keychain.
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Don’t Reset Passwords Willy-Nilly
As you can see, there are a variety of ways that you can reset a lost or forgotten admin password and regain access to a Mac, although they all depend on knowing either another admin password or an Apple ID password.
However, don’t reset an admin password unless doing so is absolutely necessary because the login keychain will be lost in the process, and that will likely cause future annoyance.
If you’re not yet in this situation, take precautionary measures now! Be sure that your Macs’ passwords and any FileVault recovery keys are stored in secure locations that you—and other trusted users—can access easily. And of course, make sure to keep regular backups, which can help you recover from a multitude of sins.