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  • iCloud oddity

    From captain.black@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 26 22:23:59 2022
    Earlier I tried to sign in to iCloud on a new (old) MacBook. Now my phone
    shows this <https://imgur.com/a/YOL6Qn8> Why??

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to captain.black@gmail.com on Tue Dec 27 00:44:37 2022
    On 26 Dec 2022 at 22:23:59 GMT, "Mark" <captain.black@gmail.com > wrote:

    Earlier I tried to sign in to iCloud on a new (old) MacBook. Now my phone shows this <https://imgur.com/a/YOL6Qn8> Why??

    I think it means that iCloud generated some new cryptographic keys for
    you, or your laptop did, so you need to get them updated onto the iPhone
    but you need to re-auth to do that.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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  • From captain.black@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Jaimie Vandenbergh on Tue Dec 27 10:10:59 2022
    Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
    On 26 Dec 2022 at 22:23:59 GMT, "Mark" <captain.black@gmail.com > wrote:

    Earlier I tried to sign in to iCloud on a new (old) MacBook. Now my phone
    shows this <https://imgur.com/a/YOL6Qn8> Why??

    I think it means that iCloud generated some new cryptographic keys for
    you, or your laptop did, so you need to get them updated onto the iPhone
    but you need to re-auth to do that.

    Cheers - Jaimie

    Ah, I see. Thanks.

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