Apple’s security systems stole another advantage against rivals today when the company finally enabled app-specific passwords to help improve the level of protection its customers enjoy.

Switched on

Apple yesterday shared this email with iCloud users:

“Thank you for using two-step verification to protect your Apple ID and the data you store with iCloud.

This is a reminder that starting tomorrow, app-specific passwords will be required to access your iCloud data using third party apps such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or other mail, contacts and calendar apps.

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