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You have one Apple device that gets lost. You buy another and try to log in. Apple expects you to approve the login with the lost device. What now?

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You do the acccount recovery flow. Options include providing your recovery key or proving your identity to Apple customer support. Do you really think Apple did not account for this?

What recovery key? I must have lost mine. ID verification? I never provided my ID to Apple when creating my account.

Account recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118574

Recovery key: https://support.apple.com/en-us/109345

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