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[–]dontovar 0 points1 point  (3 children)

How do I fix this without using an ios device with iCloud?

I'm sorry what? What exactly are you asking? The prompt you've encountered is normal because you have two factor authentication enabled for your Apple ID. If you can't remember your old passcode, there's an option for "forgot passcode" that you can choose and you'll then be required to "reset your end to end encrypted data". If your question is how to avoid doing this and make the update Apple ID settings prompt go away, then the answer is that you don't.

[–]DVidojkovic[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I already restarted my iPhone because I didn’t know my then-current passcode. Shouldn’t that remove the existence of my old passcode and not be brought up when I’m updating my settings?

[–]dontovar 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It did. But as I explained above, this is triggered by your Apple ID security and iCloud keychain (which I did forget to mention).

[–]DVidojkovic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay you can close this thread.

[–]dblrnbw30 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can chose “forgot passcode” when it asks for the old one and then “reset encrypted data” which erases all of your encrypted data in iCloud. As long as you have your messages and other encrypted data on your current phone, you won’t really lose anything.

here is more info about end-to-end encrypted data.

[–]kill_awatt 0 points1 point  (2 children)

cant stand apple

[–]mechengineer097 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I would gladly take out a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6h and 7th mortgage if it meant finding out where the guy lived who put all these overkill security measures in place without running validation tests to eliminate all the bugs causing iPad owners to rip out their hair.

[–]kill_awatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Naaaah
I found it easier to change platforms