Recover Your Account

At one point, Apple made it difficult to recover access to an Apple ID account and associated iCloud data when you’d forgotten a password, lost access to devices, or had your account locked for unknown reasons. Fortunately, in addition to improving the process for resetting one’s password and using trusted devices and phone numbers described in the previous chapter, Apple now has three recovery modes.

These modes correspond to the party who has the right pieces of information to help:

  • A recovery process and a Recovery Key, which are exclusive options you can choose between to help you recover access to an Apple ID account when a lot goes wrong.

  • A Recovery Content lets you lean on a trusted person or people to help you ...

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