Popup saying "Device Added to Your Account" displayed on my MacBook post updating macOS.

ykt28403 wrote:

This popup message is very unclear.

Indeed it is. You'll get this message whenever you login or logout of any Apple iCloud service. You'll also get it whenever you upgrade the OS on a device. Ironically enough, the event that is least likely to trigger this notification is adding a new device to your account. 😄

I don’t disagree …

… it’s certainly one of the more uninformative alerts.

While in a perfect world it probably shouldn’t be triggered by a “routine” update …

… it’s likely best to have it err on the side “TO” alert.

IMO the most consistent location - i.e. across all devices - to view the devices attached to your AppleID is by logging-in to:

https://appleid.apple.com/

ykt28403 wrote:

The popup is confusing in saying a device has been "added" to my account. It makes it sound like a warning that a new, unauthorized user is accessing my account, when it's actually because I just updated the OS on my MacBook.

When a new Device or Exiting upgraded device is added to OR Alerts to having been added to My Apple ID

It does have access to your Mailing Address, Phone number(s) , Account Recovery email / phone number, Date of Birth, 2FA setting and most important your Payment Methods ( Debit Card, Credit Card ) Information

As @ Chattanoogan has mentioned, better the err on the side of Caution rather than Not to Alert the user and have all that info stolen

ykt28403 wrote:

The popup is confusing in saying a device has been "added" to my account. It makes it sound like a warning that a new, unauthorized user is accessing my account, when it's actually because I just updated the OS on my MacBook.

This! Very confusing when my client ran into this a few nights ago.

ykt28403 wrote:

The popup is confusing in saying a device has been "added" to my account. It makes it sound like a warning that a new, unauthorized user is accessing my account, when it's actually because I just updated the OS on my MacBook.

Agreed. Unfortunately a lot of Apple error messages & notifications are extremely vague & confusing these days. It is definitely very frustrating especially for something so critical. In fact earlier today I spent a long time trying to find out why the Apple forum was preventing me from submitting a post.....after much wasted time I discovered I was missing a single character in a word which ended up making it a prohibited word (I almost gave up on submitting my post, but I had taken a lot of time writing it).....why Apple why!?

Apple is not the only company providing such vague & confusing alerts....seems to be the new norm for whatever reason.