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# Apple Adds Optional Two-Step Verification
- URL: https://chrisenns.com/2013/03/apple-adds-optional-two-step-verification/
- Published: 2013-03-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-08T23:52:39.000Z
- Author: Chris Enns
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-04-08 17:47, #ichris

> Your Apple ID is the key to many important things you do with Apple, such as purchasing from the iTunes and App Stores, keeping personal information up-to-date across your devices with iCloud, and locating, locking, or wiping your devices. Two-step verification is a feature you can use to keep your Apple ID as secure as possible.

Using Apple's free [Find My iPhone app](https://target.georiot.com/Proxy.ashx?tsid=528&GR%5FURL=https%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Ffind-my-iphone%252Fid376101648%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30&ref=chrisenns.com) for iOS or a SMS/text message you can have a secondary level of authentication in order to access your Apple ID.

Visit [support.apple.com](https://support.apple.com/kb/HT5570?ref=chrisenns.com) for how to set it up. Unfortunately for my fellow Canadians, it's not being offered in Canada at this time:

> Initially, two-step verification is being offered in the U.S., UK, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.