Many people say their Apple IDs were inexplicably reset last night

Overnight, galore group reported connected societal media that they were inexplicably logged retired of their Apple IDs and past required to reset their passwords erstwhile they tried to motion successful again, and cipher seems to cognize why. Some reported needing to participate their iPhone passcode to link to iCloud again, while others pinch Stolen Device Protection enabled said they had to hold an hr earlier being capable to log in.

Apple’s System Status webpage shows nary existent issues pinch immoderate of its services, truthful it’s not clear if this was a wide issue. That said, 9to5Mac reports that moreover a fewer of its unit members were besides affected by nan issue. At slightest one Forbes contributor apparently knowledgeable nan rumor arsenic well. The outlet saw nary denotation that this was related to nan password reset attacks that respective publications, including Forbes, covered successful March.

One Mastodon personification said they were told by an Apple support squad personnel that “sometimes random information improvements are added to your account,” while connected Reddit, a personification posted coming successful a thread astir nan issue that Apple support told them their password “was changed astir midnight.”

Some group said they besides had to reset their app-specific passwords for third-party apps that entree their Apple ID (email clients, for example).

Not everyone was forced to alteration their passwords, however, arsenic nan personification posting successful nan supra Threads station said a password reset was only “suggested,” not required.

Mac developer Michael Tsai wrote up a blog post astir dealing pinch nan issue. In “another lawsuit of my Apple ID mysteriously being locked,” he said he had to hold an hr to reset because of Stolen Device Protection, Apple’s new information feature to support iPhone owners’ iCloud accounts protected successful nan arena their phones are stolen. Evidently, nan characteristic only listed a market shop Tsai visits each mates of weeks arsenic 1 of nan non-configurable locations wherever nan one-hour hold for password resets wouldn’t beryllium enforced.

Apple did not respond instantly to The Verge’s petition for comment. In nan meantime, arsenic frustrating arsenic nan rumor sounds, astatine slightest not everyone had to woody pinch it successful difficult mode: