Apple has made the incredibly annoying “you can’t just enter your 1Password/keychain password, you have to dick around with email” process much nicer; at least when it can recognize the email/text and enter the code for you.
Apple is the worst about this. The only option is that they send a message to an Apple device. I only have an iPad and not an iPhone or Macbook, so I often simply cannot log into my Apple account because they refuse to do anything else besides send it to an Apple device.
Yes, it is true. There are indeed cases where you are not presented with SMS options.
And I'm not going to purchase and carry around a hardware key just for the privilege of periodically logging into my Apple accounts.
Maybe Apple shouldn't force you to own an Apple device to login to your accounts? They've been sued about this before and lost. If Microsoft did this, people would lose their minds.
