Apple should follow Google’s lead and force 2FA on all accounts
Apple should follow Google’s lead and force 2FA on all accounts
Google is auto-enabling 2FA on all accounts and Apple should do the same. Credit: Dreamstime
In honour of World Password Day, Google will automatically enable two-factor authentication for all Google account holders who have proper recovery information on their accounts (email or phone). That s fantastic news and a bold step for Google, and I hope Apple follows suit.
In May 2019, Google announced that there are some 1.5 billion users around the world, so this is no small feat. It s not known how many haven t turned on 2FA, but my guess is a lot, so this change will likely affect hundreds of millions of users.
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Apple should follow Google’s lead and force 2FA on all accounts
Google is auto-enabling 2FA on all accounts and Apple should do the same. Credit: Dreamstime
In honour of World Password Day, Google will automatically enable two-factor authentication for all Google account holders who have proper recovery information on their accounts (email or phone). That s fantastic news and a bold step for Google, and I hope Apple follows suit.
In May 2019, Google announced that there are some 1.5 billion users around the world, so this is no small feat. It s not known how many haven t turned on 2FA, but my guess is a lot, so this change will likely affect hundreds of millions of users.
There was an uproar that it would be mandatory, but Google clarified that is not the case on May 9, 2021, 13:03 26 comments
In a nutshell: World Password Day was last Thursday. In honor of the day, Google announced that it would soon make two-factor authentication default for all Google services users. Additionally, it will automatically enroll appropriately configured accounts. Appropriately configured means people who already have a recovery method in place, like a secondary email or phone number.
Keeping your online accounts is of utmost importance. Yet year after year, we see the most common passwords continue to be easy to guess strings like 123456, 123456789, password, or 111111. What makes matters worse is users tend to use them on multiple accounts. Having one s email compromised is one thing, but if the same credentials are used for other sites like a bank, the consequences could be devastating. Google announced it would mitigate t