So I found an iCloud account I setup half a decade ago with a phone number I no longer have. But I had SMS 2FA setup ๐ฌ
I still have access to the email bound to it, and know the password, and through old emails I was able to figure out which phone number was associated with it. I also still have the MacBook I registered the account with, although I think I just setup a new account rather than going through all the motions, and it has been reset a few times, so it's not recorded as a trusted device anymore.
Bet time: what do we reckon the likelihood of apple removing the 2FA is? My guess is probably a 35% chance they do, assuming nobody has my old number yet (if they do and they called apple and were like "yo what do? I didn't make no iCloud request dawg" then that probably goes down to like a 15% chance, unless the apple people asked for more info and confirmed that at the very least they aren't me, and can use that in their investigations, in which case it probably goes up to 75%)
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Tbh I don't really care that much, I only used it so that they'd stop hassling me about linking an iCloud account, so there's nothing on there I care about. But it is registered with my main email address, and I'd rather use that than trying to remember what other email I used for the new one