macOS Catalina Terms and Conditions loop MacBook Pro

Janet, it is quite likely that you have another iCloud account. This is what happened with me. Go in to "Internet Accounts" in System Preferences, and see what other accounts you may have. I had a second iCloud account. I found out the answer here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250681421?answerId=251355368022#251355368022

Fixed by accepting terms on other Apple ID account found in SystemPreferences/Internet Accounts. Many thanks.

If you have other iCloud accounts (maybe historical ones?), this answer would seem to have a likely chance of fixing your problem. In any event, it's worth checking the Internet Accounts applet just to be sure.

This Mac is my daily computer which I work on, I can NOT reinstall the whole system, so I need another solution.

Just to make sure I understand ... Did you install the beta of macOS Catalina on your "daily computer?" If so, then any issues that arise using the beta is not something that we can discuss here. If you are on the Developer beta, then you would know that there is a forum where you can go to for this. However, if you are on the Public beta, you do not have any options available to you to get help. Until Apple releases Catalina next month, you will have few options going forward.

One of those is to reinstall macOS Mojave from a backup. If you didn't perform a backup, then you will be "stuck" until Catalina is released.

I have this problem to on the official release. I don't think it is profile related because it happens on all my Macs. I've signed out of iCloud, rebooted the computer and reset my password. Nothing works. This is highly annoying!

I also have this problem - someone please help me! I updated to the new os last night - this morning I keep getting the message to accept the terms & conditions but then it doesn't do anything when I accept!! Please help - i'm going crazy!! grrr! :(

Janet

This is still a problem for me - despite checking that I don't have other apple accounts. It says 'server error' - after I try to accept the terms & conditions. Very annoying - hope someone has an answer & can solve it before I lose the will !! :( & thanks to Dan for your suggestion - even though it hasn't solved my problem!!

I rang apple support & spent almost an hour on the phone to a vey helpful guy who helped me fix it. Or showed me how to fix the issue. We created a test id & did lots of restart & safe mode stuff that I don't understand but in the end it worked. There obviously is an issue with catalina for some macs. The last OS update was no issue for me so this one took me back to the dark days of glitchy os & things going wrong with my computer! At least its fixed now - for me - & I'm very impressed with Apple for their help & being bothered about the individual user.

Thank you. This actually did work for me. And it was the same game center thing that hung up and kept saving. I clicked cancel. It disappeared, and I continued with the iCloud account. I was then able to view terms and conditions from the list on Preferences/internet accounts. Thank you again!

So, this worked on my home mac. Now am on daughter's imac and am encountering same problem with Catalina. Problem is that when I follow the same instructions, it doesn't look the same as the home one...if that's possible. What do I click on here, as clicking on these individual things does nothing. And I don't understand why it worked before and not now. Feeling like a dolt, but need to ask. :-)

I have the same issue. Hopefully there will be a patch or an answer soon. Very annoying.

Having this same problem using the official Catalina release. Seem to be in an endless loop and T&C will not be accepted.

Help and TIA

This worked for me, and was precisely the problem. Thank you!

Sorry that didn't help. It worked for me.

For those who are finding the answer to go to system preferences/internet accounts, unsatisfactory. A little more explanation.

firstly logging out of iCloud and reloading iCloud account didn't help.

go to ALL in the list (system preferences/internet accounts) click on each and wait for ten seconds to see if anything pops up asking you to accept terms and conditions. even if you only have one account or no additional accounts for mail.

I do have additional apple mail accounts, and one did ask.

however that didn't fix it.

it was actually game centre that I never use. Clicking on it hung, saying saving for ages, and only when it was removed did things magically resolve themselves.

so go through the entire list, there's definitely something screwy with catalina, and leaving no stone unturned no matter how off the wall it sounds, may fix YOUR problem.