Here’s how to get a new Apple recovery key if you’ve lost yours

Dec10

by Sindy Cator on December 10, 2014 at 2:46 am

Yesterday we wrote of the perils of losing your Apple ID recovery key when two-factor is enabled and many of you wrote to us as you’d lost yours and didn’t know what to do. The good news is as long as you’re not locked out of your Apple ID, it’s easy to generate a new key for safe keeping. Here’s the steps: Head over to appleid.apple.com and click “manage my Apple ID” Log in with your normal Apple ID username and password Verify your identity using a trusted device or phone number Choose “security” on the left Choose “replace recovery key” Step…