Well this is an enormous pain in the wazoo - received in the mail today -
"...Beginning on June 15, app-specific passwords will be required to access your iCloud data using third‑party apps such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or other mail, contacts, and calendar services not provided by Apple.
If you are already signed in to a third‑party app using your primary Apple ID password, you will be signed out automatically when this change takes effect. You will need to generate an app-specific password and sign in again.
To generate an app-specific password, turn on two-factor authentication for your Apple ID and then follow the instructions below..."
Sorry, I know it's all about security (and, ahem, proprietary control by Apple over how we use our own data), but I'm not keen on this or about how Apple does 2-factor ID.
Thoughts?
"...Beginning on June 15, app-specific passwords will be required to access your iCloud data using third‑party apps such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or other mail, contacts, and calendar services not provided by Apple.
If you are already signed in to a third‑party app using your primary Apple ID password, you will be signed out automatically when this change takes effect. You will need to generate an app-specific password and sign in again.
To generate an app-specific password, turn on two-factor authentication for your Apple ID and then follow the instructions below..."
Sorry, I know it's all about security (and, ahem, proprietary control by Apple over how we use our own data), but I'm not keen on this or about how Apple does 2-factor ID.
Thoughts?