At this point, the safest approach is the following. Your Apple ID and phone number are now being used for iMessage and Facetime on a New iPhone.Īt this point, we have not seen Apple acknowledging a breach in Apple accounts, but it seems many iOS users online are getting these types of messages regardless of what they are doing on their device. Or… Your Apple ID and phone number are now being used for iMessage and Facetime on a New Mac. Your Apple ID is being used to sign in to a device near “” Here are some of the Apple messages you may be seeing regarding your iCloud account being used for Facetime or iMessage on another device. See our article on Apple ID being used on a new Mac. *Update* It seems the recent wave of messages may be related to a Gmail email address that you have associated with an Apple ID account. But why did you still get the prompt in the first place? What’s confusing about the Apple message is sometimes the message is for a device you already have setup in iCloud and Apple tells you to safely ignore the message. Over the last month or so, Apple ID users have are seeing authorization requests for Apple iCloud accounts either showing up on a device they already have setup in their iCloud or a sign-in from somewhere else they don’t recognize. It seems a recent wave of Apple ID authorizations on other iOS devices is plaguing the Internet right now.
