When your Apple ID is protected with two-step verification, or two-factor authentication, you'll need to use an app-specific password to sign in to your account using any apps or services that don't support entering verification codes. This maintains a high level of security and ensures that your primary Apple ID password won’t be collected or stored by any third-party apps you might use.
Generate an app-specific password
- Sign in to your Apple ID account page.
- In the Security section, click Generate Password below App-Specific Passwords.
- Follow the steps on your screen.
After you generate your app-specific password, enter or paste it into the password field of the app as you would normally.
Manage app-specific passwords
You can have up to 25 active app-specific passwords at any given time. If you need to, you can revoke passwords individually or all at once.
- Sign in to your Apple ID account page.
- In the Security section, click Edit.
- In the App Specific Passwords section, click View History.
- Click
next to a password you want to delete, or Revoke All.
After you revoke a password, the app using that password will be signed out of your account until you generate a new password and sign in again.
Any time you change or reset your primary Apple ID password, all of your app-specific passwords will be revoked automatically to protect the security of your account. You'll need to generate new app-specific passwords for any apps you would like to continue using.