Pls clarify apple's complex password variety.

This is asked because I find myself in an Orwellian tangle of needing new passwords and/or "ID's" for apparently each Apple function which are then rejected as inapplicable at the next Apple site. Can someone please explain, jargon free, the basic scheme of Apple's password requirements, here, there and seemingly everywhere? Thanks in advance..... I'm an "intermediate" level user in most circumstances but this Apple complexity is newly baffling.

8 characters or more, at least 1 upper case and 1 number, no special characters.

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