Helped a friend get an Apple TV+ subscription up and running on her ancient (3rd gen) Apple TV. The machine is too old to have a mechanism for accepting 2FA verification codes and she was stuck in an authentication loop.
The Apple solution: when the device asks, again, for your Apple ID password, enter the password and append the six-digit code. So like if your password is "rabbits" you'll write rabbits123456. This actually works and is so smart and also so dumb I always forget about it.
@jessamyn Amazon uses the same solution for older devices so appears there is some consensus on this being an approach to handle two factor authentication on older devices. (I recently reset my Amazon password and deauthorized a bunch of devices so had looked up what to do if one of my devices was too old for 2FA - didn’t need to use this trick but learned about it then.
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