Gordon's Tech

A friend was not receiving Facebook SMS two factor authentication codes on his iPhone. I removed all his blocked numbers and he received the...

My son has an email address of the form tim@familyname.com where familyname.com is a pseudonym for a domain I own with legacy free Google Ap...

Apple's FairPlay DRM management is notoriously fragile. It can be confused by family sharing, Screen Time controls, payment method chang...

Someone who has your iPhone passcode can lock you out of your Apple iCloud and Apple ID services -- as well as take control of your iPhone a...

When I travel every bit of IT in our family starts to malfunction. On a recent trip this included Emily's emails, they were intermittent...

Apple digital rights management (DRM, FairPlay in this case) is very complex, particularly when one adds Family Sharing or has an atypical A...

Based on some issues I've seen with my daughter's devices I think that Apple Message sync will only work when both Apple ID for &quo...

I'll provide some back story below, but it's tedious and a bit ranty so I'll put the most useful stuff up front. For *reasons* (...

You can't change the date of birth or family relationship of an Apple ID with a calculated age of less than 13 years old. Otherwise it&#...

(You can skip the rant to get to the tech details) <rant>I frequently berate Apple for the radioactive-feces-infested-dumpster-fire t...

If multiple devices share a Store Apple ID they will show up in Apple ID Devices . They will also show in iTunes (for that Store Apple ID),...

One of Apple’s “ original sins ” is the proliferation of Apple IDs and the inability to merge or manage them. I have four that I know of wi...

Like many veteran geeks I have a different iCloud ID and Apple store ID. This used to be a supported configuration. In my case it was essent...

Gmail, and some other systems, support a very old email standard that needs a name. Gmail will treat myname+123@gmail.com as though it were ...

I’m not sure what’s more amazing — that this has been broken for five years, or that someone once thought this was a clever idea, or that al...

I sent a text to #3 and she didn’t get it. When I dug in a bit I discovered her iMessage was working, but it was only using her phone number...

I noticed my daughter was receiving email sent from my iPhone with my email address but the sender name of “Gmail personal”. It took a whil...

Every year or so I like to check which of my four known Apple IDs has my many Apple hardware purchases associated with it. Two years ago, ...

I like the idea of "two-step verification" for my Apple credentials (aka two factor authentication). Problem is, I have no faith i...

I made a rare "Genius" consultation today. The visit confirmed that there's no "safe" Apple-approved way to fix brok...