This is designed to alert you if your Apple account is being accessed by someone you don't know, on a device that you have not authorised. When you attempt to sign in with an Apple ID that has something called 'two factor authentication' enabled, this results in a message appearing on your other Apple device/s. Why do I get a message that shows a sign-in has been requested at some other location? This was confusing, given she lived in Clayton - so she she though it best to go with 'Don't Allow' every time it popped up. Her Messages was failing to complete activation because she kept was choosing the 'Don't Allow' when shown a message on her iPad - a message indicating that someone was attempting to access her account 'near St Kilda Rd'.

When I originally wrote this article, it was my own Mum who was confused by it. ITandCoffee gets asked about this one on a very regular basis. It used to show 'near St Kilda Road' (which I am not). ' and shows a location that may not be your current location. More recently, the location has shown 'near Melbourne'. In particular, the message you receive says that 'Your Apple ID is being used to sign in to a device near. This article was first published December 2016, and is one of iTandCoffee's 'most read' articles. If you have you been confused about why Apple sometimes shows that your device is in some other location, you are not alone.

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