Apple ID - a forced password change.

Nine_Lives

Sorry if in wrong forum. I figured it'd be the place to post with it being about iPhone apps & such.

I've just logged on to iTunes today to download updates for the apps for my iPhone, but got told that i can't access my account for security reasons & need to reset the account.

Go to do this & it wants me to select a password. I enter the password i've had & it wont let me use it as i've had that password in the last year.

What a load of crap. My password isn't even a word. It's just a mixture of letters & numbers. You'd need a bloody password grabber programme to run a cycle of letters & numbers to get it.

Why am i being forced to change it & is there any way i can avoid doing this?

DUTR

best ask thegoodman aka zxcvop as he won't hear a bad thing about apple, never experienced that though.

Gordon_Hose

Have you spoken to Apple Support?

http://www.apple.com/uk/support/

Nine_Lives

DUTR - i can't be bothered with the guy tbh. He followed me into the credit card forum to have a bit of a whinge, probably on the back of the iPhone thread. He replied, but i don't know what he said as i never went back into the thread after my last comment as i can't be bothered with it. There's bigger things in the world.

GH - nope. Opening your link now...

vuvuzela

Maybe someone has tried to access your account from a different IP to the one you normally use ? Personally I don't see it as too big a deal, many workplaces for example have forced password changes every month and you can't use any of the last 10...

gjchester

K_P83 wrote: »

What a load of crap. My password isn't even a word. It's just a mixture of letters & numbers. You'd need a bloody password grabber programme to run a cycle of letters & numbers to get it.

Why am i being forced to change it & is there any way i can avoid doing this?

Someone has tried to log in with your apple ID and got the psssword wrong three times. It could be malicious or it could be a simple miskeying.

The content of password is irrelevent, the server looks at the characters and compares it to the characters of prior passwords. If they match it won't let you use it.

What the characters are are irrelevent be it a word, number, or a randomly generated password, if they match a prior password you can't use it.

robbies_gal

i had to do that they wont let you have the same password as aprevious one no matter wot it is

dont worry jsut use another one and reset it

caz2003uk

I too had to do this the other week!

Really annoying as now i have to remember yet another password, but hey i changed the password and now have no problems! I have no idea why i had to do it but its done!