Yesterday we learned, under great expectation, that at last those of Cupertino were sending to the media invitations to a new event that will take place next Thursday at 10:00 am Pacific time, 19:00 pm in Peninsular Spain and at 18:00 p.m. in the Canary Islands, in the Cupertino headquarters. Within what they can present that day, OS X 10.10 Yosemite and possibly iOS 8.1 will not be lacking, which is adapted to everything that is needed for the Continuity protocol to begin to delight millions of users.
However, those of you who have read a little about the new features that the OS X Yosemite system brings, you will know that the role that the iCloud cloud is going to play increases significantly and that is why today Apple has sent users that they have activated the two-step ID verification process an email specifying that From now on, those of us who use third-party applications to access iCloud data will need to use application passwords.
Well yes, Apple mentions in the mail that it is to remind users that from today we will need application passwords to access our data in iCloud with third-party applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird or other mail applications email, contacts and calendar.
Below we attach the email so that if you have not received it you know what we are talking about:
Once we enter appleide.apple.com and go to the Password and Security section we will see an item as shown. When generating the key, we are returned a window like this:
App-specific passwords are a new feature Apple introduced in mid-September, following the launch of two-step authentication for access to iCloud.com. The changes came after a hacking incident that exposed the iCloud accounts of various celebrities due to weak passwords.
Why not make it optional?