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On my dock in OSX 10.12.4, my System Preferences icon I now have a little red circle with a (2) in it.

When I enter System Prefs, I have two little yellow "alarm" symbols in my iCloud prefs pane. One is to "Finish changing my password" and the other is "Two Factor Authentication".

Finish changing my password doesn't work when OSX is connected to an active directory account, so I can't use that. I have another post on the communities about how OSX has yelled at me every day to continue changing my password once I changed my Active Directory password, and there has never been a posted solution. I've already stumped every person at the genius bar with this problem - it's just something buggy that Apple has never gotten around to fixing.

I also don't want to use Two Factor Authentication on my macbook pro. For my phone, sure, but not for my laptop. Even when I try to do it, it says, "There is an error in iCloud preferences" before kicking me out of the iCloud control panel. Awesome!

I'm making a conscious choice to not do those two things, so how do I get rid of the little (2) in the red circle?

Don't use Active Directory, but I too had the "scarlet number" of shame on my System Preferences icon in the Dock. I simply told it "Not now" (or something along those lines as I've forgotten exactly what it said), when I clicked on the System Preferences icon in the Dock and it brought up the System Preferences to the iCloud pane and gave me a choice on what I wanted to do.

Perhaps it will periodically try and nag me in the future? Or every time I reboot? Or ???

Good luck...

Sadly, no option to say Not Now in the icloud System Preferences pane. It get prompted in the upper right Notification area every day to "finish changing my password" and I've made a post about it in these communities, with many views and many "I also have this problem" but no solution. It's been months.

Here's the post I made about the other nag screen that never goes away. This system prefs red circle of shame is basically the same nag screen verbage, just in a fresh and newly exciting place!

Finish Changing your iCloud Password Prompt / Nag Screen

Guess I'll just have to live with it.

Don't know if it makes a difference or not as now I don't have the "scarlet number" any longer so can't repeat, but I made a point of clicking on the Dock icon right on top of the red number and that's when it brought up the System Preferences opened up to the iCloud pane - all on it's own. I don't know when the last time I looked at the iCloud pane, but it's been a few days, so thought it psychic that it brought it up with the problem pane already opened.

I tried logging out to see if the "scarlet number" came back and it didn't. I restarted and it didn't either, so wonder when/if it will return to haunt me Only Jony Ive knows

Good luck...

I also don't want to use Two Factor Authentication on my macbook pro.

For what it's worth 2FA is unrelated to the particular device's security. It ensures your Apple ID cannot be used without access to one of the trusted devices you specify. Device security is a separate matter.

Why would you not want extra security?

This problem is actually less about the 2 factor authentication warning and more about the other alert about "Finish Changing my Password". Either way, if I chose to not use 2FA, Apple shouldn't need to put a notification icon reminding me to do it every time I open up System Preferences.

As far as the primary annoyance, no amount of actually changing my password has ever made that alert go away. Apple seems to want me to change my corporate login credentials to be the same as my Apple ID, which is something I'll never do. So I just have to live with that red alert box on my System Prefs dock icon, unless there's some hack-y way to force it to disappear.

The other annoying thing is that every time I open System Prefs, it defaults to showing me my iCloud preferences pane (ie the one with the alert) instead of showing my all my System Pref icons.

I have this same issue.  I can't find anything in systems preference with a 'message' except 2 factor identification.  I do not want to use 2FA. 

How can I get rid of the red badge of shame!! 

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