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Q: iCloud email password not working

My iPhone suddenly asked me for passwords on my 2 iCloud accounts I use. I have not changed anything in either account.

 

This has also occurred in all my Email clients acorss my 2 macbooks with these 2 accounts in Mail (both) & Mail Pilot on 1. Plus, the same has occurred on my iPad.

 

I can however login though icloud.com.

 

I checked the Apple iCloud system status screen & all systems seems to be ok?

Posted on Jan 21, 2014 3:15 PM

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  • by TheGuyintheProjectionBooth,

    TheGuyintheProjectionBooth TheGuyintheProjectionBooth Jan 21, 2014 5:33 PM in response to emkai
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    Mac OS X
    Jan 21, 2014 5:33 PM in response to emkai

    I started to get errors this morning. Now only iCloud.com through Safari and Mac Mail on my MBP (Mvrx) will see mail. My main eMail client Entourage in 10.5.8 on my PPC Tower will not work and gets the password error every time it goes out for the mail. I have had problems of one kind of another since Apple did the big iCloud switch.

     

    I wonder if the credit card hackers got bored with Target and turn on Apple?

  • by William Tomcanin,

    William Tomcanin William Tomcanin Jan 21, 2014 5:48 PM in response to TheGuyintheProjectionBooth
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    Jan 21, 2014 5:48 PM in response to TheGuyintheProjectionBooth

    Samr problem here on my PPC Quicksilver running Mac OS X 10.5.8

  • by JSGo,

    JSGo JSGo Jan 21, 2014 5:58 PM in response to emkai
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    Jan 21, 2014 5:58 PM in response to emkai

    Same here. Everything is running fine in Mail app on Macbook Pro OS X 10.9, but NOT working on neither ipad or iphone where it usually works fine.

     

    Won't work on my PC's account.

     

    I get a message saying my password or username is not good. Changed password via icloud.com, still able to access mail from the icloud.com interface and from the mail app on my macbook, but no other device that usually works is working now...

     

    Tried my friends icloud account on my PC and it works...So is the problem related to only some of the @me & @icloud emails and not all of them?

     

    I can still access icloud.com and it works.

  • by emkai,

    emkai emkai Jan 21, 2014 6:23 PM in response to emkai
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    Jan 21, 2014 6:23 PM in response to emkai

    I just called Apple support as the system status screen was all showing green!? They said there's a server down which they currently trying to fix. I advised the problem to the guy, so they do know about this. Although it has been pretty much most of the day for me.

  • by drochon,

    drochon drochon Jan 21, 2014 6:25 PM in response to emkai
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    Jan 21, 2014 6:25 PM in response to emkai

    Thanks emkai for posting that. I was just about to call myself.  So good to know they know about this problem. Thx again.

  • by emkai,

    emkai emkai Jan 21, 2014 6:27 PM in response to emkai
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    Jan 21, 2014 6:27 PM in response to emkai

    No problem. Mail appears to be working for me now on my MacBook, but iPhone & iPad are still having issues. It's a bit strange it seems to be hardware linked too, but I'm sure/hope(!) it'll be fixed soon enough...

  • by jeremyfromwv,

    jeremyfromwv jeremyfromwv Jan 21, 2014 7:15 PM in response to emkai
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    Jan 21, 2014 7:15 PM in response to emkai

    My mail is working fine on my macbook pro. But like some of you - my mobile device(not ios device) cannot authenticate. I put my password in a million times but now I see there is a server issue. I was going crazy

  • by rlking05,

    rlking05 rlking05 Jan 21, 2014 8:21 PM in response to emkai
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    Jan 21, 2014 8:21 PM in response to emkai

    This has been driving me crazy all day on both my iPad and iPhone so it's good to know Apple is aware of this.  Hopefully it will get fixed soon

  • by John Wolf,

    John Wolf John Wolf Jan 22, 2014 3:38 AM in response to TheGuyintheProjectionBooth
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    Jan 22, 2014 3:38 AM in response to TheGuyintheProjectionBooth

    I was also having this problem, but with Outlook 2011. This issue seems to have resolved itself as Outlook has been working this morning.

  • by derek78756,

    derek78756 derek78756 Mar 9, 2016 8:33 PM in response to emkai
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    Mar 9, 2016 8:33 PM in response to emkai

    I had a similar issue.  I could login to my iCloud account using my AppleID but the same password wouldn't work when I used my (non-Apple) email client to try to log in to retrieve my email.  I tried resetting my iCloud password...didn't work.  I even spent 25+ minutes on the phone with Apple Support today which only resulted in them telling me to use the Apple Mail app instead.

     

    I finally found the solution tonight when looking through the Manage your Apple ID site.  You need to create an App-Specific password for your email client:

     

    1. go to https://appleid.apple.com/account/home
    2. login with your AppleID username and password
    3. Once the page loads click the 'Edit' link in the Security section
    4. You should now see a section for App-Specific Passwords
    5. Click the 'Generate Password...' link
    6. Enter a label (I used my email client name - Unibox)
    7. Click Create

         Apple will generate a password that you'll use when setting up your email client.  Use this new password instead of your AppleID password.

     

     

    Using app-specific passwords - Apple Support