Hi Pat

Why don’t you ring Apple support. They solved my password problem when I got no 
answers. I rang in the late afternoon and got through very quickly. The man 
also sent me the URL so I could find it again plus some other useful URLs.

Good luck

Diana

Sent from my iPad

> On 21 Nov 2018, at 6:37 am, Susan Hastings <susanhasti...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Pat, if you change your Apple password, it is universal. That becomes the 
> password you use with your Apple ID and the new password will have to be used 
> for all of your devices. It’s not a bug. Just make sure that you are using 
> the same password on all of your devices.
> 
> When you change the password on your computer and it doesn’t ‘work’ does the 
> same new password work on your other devices?
> 
> Cheers, Susan.
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On 20 Nov 2018, at 10:13 pm, Patricia Scott <clamsh...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> 
>> I have now supposedly reset my password 3 times, except none of them have 
>> worked. Apple ‘support’ has not helped at all. The automated system does not 
>> target the right objectives. It drags in my phone and iPad and tries to make 
>> new passwords for them, when it is the computer that needs it.
>> 
>> I asked for a chat; the response was, we will get to you in 2 minutes. 20 
>> minutes later it blanked out. Another page asked for the serial number. I 
>> assumed they meant for the computer. I found the number on the bottom and 
>> duly typed it in. Message came up: “this is not a valid serial number”. But 
>> it is.
>> 
>> So I am hoping WAMUG has some better advice. 
>> 
>> Hopefully,
>> Pat
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