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To this day, I still get random "Enter your password to continue using iCloud" push notifications on my iPhone with no relevant action to trigger such a notification.

My Apple ID uses a unique password, I keep a recovery key, I don't have its login credentials saved anywhere, and it's a dev account; so I have my LLC's DUNS number attached to it. My devices are the only ones listed in my settings portal.

I have no idea why I get these notifications, lol.

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I got that prompt on all my apple devices a couple days ago. I just clicked Cancel on every one. The prompts stopped coming and everything seems to still work. I don't know whether there will be some ongoing problem with my AppleID that I'm not aware of yet, but so far so good.

>I have no idea why I get these notifications, lol

Perhaps so that someone who found your iphone unlocked can't just keep using it and your iCloud in perpetuity?

I think he means, what causes apple to trigger those notifications. I don’t remember ever seeing that prompt, at least not without myself doing some action to trigger it.

>I think he means, what causes apple to trigger those notifications

Yeah, that's what I tried to guess too. Like, maybe those are sent periodically?

Could be there's some heuristics like "logged in from a different city" or such, too.

Perhaps you are connecting from a VPN or endpoint that known bad actors have also used in previous attacks (university network, guest network).

Or a device on your network is or was compromised and used as a channel to attack others on the internet.

Or your ISP has given you a public address where the last owner was abusing it.. or perhaps the whole ISP block has been added to a shitlist.

Probably some regularly scheduled attempt to sync

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