Keep your Apple Account secure
Your Apple Account is the personal account you use to sign in to your devices and access Apple services, like the App Store, iCloud, Messages, FaceTime and Find My. It also includes personal information that you store with Apple and share across devices, like contacts, payment info, photos, device backups and much more. If someone else has access to your Apple Account, they can view information that is synced across devices, which may include such things as Messages and location. Learn here how to secure your Apple Account on iPad, iPhone and Mac.
Below are a few important things you can do to secure your Apple Account and protect your privacy.
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Secure your Apple Account
Don’t share your Apple Account with anyone, even family members, partners and close friends. If you share an Apple Account, you’re giving someone else access to all your personal data and your content. If someone else set up your Apple Account and password for you or has had access to your password, you should change your password.
Use two-factor authentication for your Apple Account. Two-factor authentication is designed to ensure that you’re the only person who can access your account, even if someone else knows your password. With two-factor authentication, you’ll need to provide both your password and a six-digit verification code that automatically appears on your trusted devices when you want to sign in to a new device for the first time.
To enrol in two-factor authentication, you must verify at least one trusted phone number — a number where you can receive verification codes by text message or automated phone call.
Pay attention to notifications about your Apple Account. Apple notifies you by email, text or push notification when changes are made to your account, such as when there’s a sign-in for the first time on a new device or when your password is changed. For this reason, make sure you keep your contact information up to date.
If you receive a notification that there was a sign-in attempt or that changes were made to your account that you didn’t authorise, this could mean someone has accessed or is trying to access your account.
Check and update your Apple Account security information
To help ensure that the personal information connected to your Apple Account is yours:
Do one of the following:
On your iPhone or iPad: Go to Settings
> [your name].On your Mac with macOS 13 or later: Choose Apple menu
, select System Settings, then click Apple Account 
.On your Mac with macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu
, select System Preferences, then click Apple Account .In a web browser on your Mac or Windows device: Go to the Apple Account website.
In the Name, Phone Numbers, Email section, update any information that isn’t correct or that you don’t recognise, including your name and the phone numbers and email addresses where you’re reachable.
Do one of the following:
If you have two-factor authentication turned on, review your trusted devices. If you see devices you want to remove from your account, follow the directions in the next section.
If you haven’t yet set up two-factor authentication, see Use two-factor authentication.
Secure your account and remove unknown devices
If there are devices connected to your Apple Account that you don’t recognise or haven’t authorised to use your account, you can secure your account and remove them using the steps below. Removing an unknown device helps ensure that it can no longer display verification codes and that access to iCloud (and other Apple services on the device) is blocked until you sign in again with two-factor authentication.
You may also want to take a screenshot of the devices for documentation before securing your account.
Follow the steps below to review your account information and protect your account.
If you want to change your password:
On your iPhone or iPad: Go to Settings
> [your name] > Sign-In & Security > Change Password. Choose a strong password (eight or more characters, including uppercase and lowercase letters, and at least one number).On your Mac with macOS 13 or later: Choose Apple menu
, select System Settings, then click your name at the top of the sidebar. Click Password & Security, then click Change Password.On your Mac with macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu
, select System Preferences, then click your name > Password & Security > Change Password. Choose a strong password (eight or more characters, including uppercase and lowercase letters, and at least one number).
If you want to change the email address associated with your Apple Account for added safety, open Safari
and sign in to the Apple Account website (https://account.apple.com). Select Account, and under your current Apple Account, select Change Apple Account, then enter the new email address you want to use.If you want to remove the devices you don’t want connected to your account:
On your iPhone or iPad: Go to Settings > [your name], scroll down to the list of devices, tap the device you want to remove, then tap Remove from Account.
On your Mac with macOS 13 or later: Choose Apple menu
, select System Settings, then click [your name]. Scroll down to the list of devices, click the device you want to remove, then click Remove from Account.On your Mac with macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu
, select System Preferences, click Apple ID , scroll down to the list of devices, click the device you want to remove, then click Remove from Account.