How to generate a 'Recovery Key' for your Apple ID - How to disable auto-playing videos on Facebook
Enjoy today's selection of practical, easy-to-follow tech tips.
Rick's Daily Tips Tech Update for Thursday, September 16, 2021.
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Topics covered in this issue...
• How to generate a Recovery Key for your Apple ID
• How to disable auto-playing videos on Facebook
• Q&A: Is there a way to extend Windows 11’s roll-back period past 10 days?
• How to quickly select everything in a document at once
• Check out ‘Just Enough Room Island’ – the smallest inhabited island in the world!
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
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Today's Quick Tip....
How to generate a Recovery Key for your Apple ID
With all the hacking going on these days it's important to always keep your Apple ID and your devices as secure as possible.
If you want to enable the strongest possible level of security for your iPhone, iPad, Mac and/or other Apple devices, you can do so by generating a Recovery Key for your Apple ID.
What makes a Recovery Key so secure is YOU will be the only person who has access to it as long as you don't share it with anyone or allow it to fall into someone else's hands. And without the Recovery Key there is no getting into a device without the passcode. Period.
Once your Recovery Key has been created the Account Recovery tool will no longer work for your Apple ID, and that will prevent a thief, a snoop or anyone else from using one of your "trusted" devices to reset the password to your Apple ID.
Begin important notice...
While having the Account Recovery tool disabled will greatly enhance the security of your Apple account and your devices, it will also take away one of the tools you could potentially use to reset your Apple ID password should the need ever arise.
All of your account recovery eggs will be in one basket: your Recovery Key.
Therefore, it's absolutely imperative that you never lose your Recovery Key because without it you'll be locked out of your Apple account and devices permanently if your passcode ever fails to work for some reason.
In other words, proceed with caution and safeguard your Recovery Key.
End important notice...
In a nutshell, a Recovery Key is a special randomly generated 28-character code that you can use to help reset your password and regain access to your Apple ID if you ever forget it (or if it simply stops working for some reason).
Keep this special code stored away in a safe place (or preferably, in several safe places) and you won't ever have to worry about getting permanently locked out of your Apple account and/or Apple devices in the future.
Now that the warnings are out of the way, if you want to ensure that your Apple ID and devices have the ultimate in security in place, you can generate a Recovery Key by following the steps on this page.
And now, I'll just finish up with this...
Did I mention how important it is that you never lose your Recovery Key, or share it with another person?
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The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips...
• How to disable auto-playing videos on Facebook
Do you dislike videos that begin playing automatically when they scroll into view on Facebook? This post explains how to put a stop to it.
• Q&A: Is there a way to extend Windows 11’s roll-back period past 10 days?
A reader wants to know if it's possible to extend the length of time during which you'll be able to roll your PC's update to Windows 11 back to Windows 10. This post has the answer.
• How to quickly select everything in a document at once
This post explains how to select everything in a document at one time, even when part of it isn't displayed on the screen.
• Click here to see today's 'Picture of the Day' .
Every morning I post a new photo that I find inspiring, intriguing, or just plain beautiful to look at. Jumpstart your day by checking it out.
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Today's post from 'My Daily Smile'...
Check out ‘Just Enough Room Island’ – the smallest inhabited island in the world
This post (and accompanying video) discuss 'Just Enough Room Island', the smallest inhabited island on our planet.
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Tech news that caught my eye...
• Best places to sell your used electronics for 2021
• How to move all your data to your new iPhone
• Microsoft accounts no longer need a password
• The end of phone calls: why young people have silenced their ringtones
• Can burying power lines protect storm-wracked electric grids? Not always
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