How to Set up Two Step Verification for Apple ID

The XcodeGhost virus incident happened last month which make Apple fans worry about their personal information safety. In fact, as long as we take good care of personal Apple ID and open the two-step verification for Apple ID, you can greatly ensure the information safety. Here we will give the following detailed tutorial about how to set up two step verification for Apple ID.

What is Two Step Verification?
The two step verification is an additional security feature for Apple ID, and it is designed to prevent anyone to access or use your account, even though they know your password.

It needs you to use a device or other approved methods to verify your identity before you can do the following:
Sign in to My Apple ID
to manage your account
Sign in to iCloud on a new device or at iCloud.com
Sign in to iMessage or FaceTime
Shop at iTunes, iBooks, or App Store on a new device
Get Apple ID related support from Apple


How to Set up Two Step Verification for Apple ID
Go to "My Apple ID"
Select "Manage Your Apple ID" and then log in

Select "Password and Security", and then answer your security questions

Choose one trusted device by clicking on Add a phone number, entering your four-digit verification code and clicking “Verify”
Write down and/or print your Recovery Key and click on Continue

Click on the checkbox if you agree to the conditions and click on Enable two-step Verification
After the device authentication is successful, we will get a very important Recovery Key. You had better keep in in mind or on somewhere and make sure you won’t forget it. And then, the system will ask you to enter the recovery key to confirm that you already have the key.

Note: After the completion of this step, we will open the two-step certification successfully. Well, how should you use it this two-step Verification? After opening two-step Verification, we need to enter a verification code to iCloud and other operations. And if you want to modify the Apple ID password, you need to enter the recovery key first.

The two step verification is an additional security feature for Apple ID, but you still need to set a safe password for your Apple ID, and make sure your private data won’t let out. If you are afraid of losing any data on iPhone/iPad/iPod, you had better use FonePaw iOS Transfer to safely backup iPhone with a few clicks.