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My biggest pet peeve is how no one explains their password constraints until you break one of them.
by brownbat 15y ago
My biggest pet peeve is how no one explains their password constraints until you break one of them.
- tzs 15y agoI recently did a password change for some Apple site (iTunes, I think) and they handled this nicely. They put up a box beside the password field that listed the requirements, and as soon as I started typing it started dynamically changing the list to mark the requirements that my current entry did not meet.
- kree10 15y agoI just went through the iTunes "forgot my password" process and had a different experience. According to that box to the side, my new password passed all their requirements, yet on submit it kept rejecting it. I finally got it to accept a password when I stopped trying to use spaces. Are there other characters their back end rejects that the front end allows?
- JeremyBanks 15y agoApple's entirely inconsistent in this: IIRC I've been able to set simple passwords if I reset my Apple ID password through a certain page, but am forced to use a complex password if I reset it through a different page. (Such as id.apple.com vs. store.apple.com vs. developer.apple.com) I can't remember which is which, but I remember coming to this realization multiple times.