Paired with the importance of your Apple ID is the importance of keeping your account secure with a strong password. With these products comes users’ Apple ID, their account allowing them to access and make use of Apple’s services, such as iCloud, iMessage and the App Store, Apple says. With 230 million iPhones, 71 million iPads and 20 million Macs and Macbooks sold in 2020, according to, it's clear millions of Americans and people worldwide are dependent upon their Apple products. If users need to recover their Apple ID account, they must submit an account recovery request.Apple users can change their Apple ID passwords on many different devices.No reason why the computer shouldn't recognize the only password setup on the only account on the machine. There's serious a flaw in the OS or with hardware somewhere. I've been up and running for a week now and restarted a few times.

Said he's never heard of this before but walked me through the reset password again, this time no error messages. This is not user error.Ĭalled apple Support and the guy was helpful. When I booted up the next morning it wouldn't take the password again. All was running great, then I shutdown the laptop after using it for two days. I got into the desktop and was able to start using the laptop. I tried the reset password trick in terminal from the options menu. I did some googling and saw that others had this same issue (even on Slickdeals). I tried 10 more times and it still didn't take it. Well, when I went to enter my password it didn't take it. Great I thought! It looks like it's all setup. I thought it would take me through setup again, however it went right to the login screen with my account name and was prompting for password as if the computer was already setup. I bought my M1 MBA for $649 from Best Buy as an open box and when I brought it home and booted up and went through Apple initial setup it got stuck on the account screen where you setup your password. This is a major issue with these M1s and/or Big Sur.

I forgot my macbook password