Cannot accept iCloud terms and condition on Catalina

Adding to Rafael's solution:

For me there were 2 steps required:

1. Accept T&C's
2. Go to "internet accounts", selects iCloud, enter password.

Even though I had entered the password several times during the upgrade, I had to do it again at this exact point.

This finally fixed the problem.

In addition, we had two admin users on the Mac, and we both had to login and execute all steps above.

I also logged in and out a couple of times, and rebooted the laptop, but that was before entering the passwords, so I'm not sure that was necessary in hindsight :-)

In my case, I had a second iCloud account that was blocking. I went to internet accounts and clicked on the second iCloud account and the terms popped up again. This time, I accepted and it went through/went away.

I had this same problem after upgrading to Catalina.

Fixed it by head to 'System Preferences', then 'Internet Accounts' and if you have more than one iCloud account, click on them and one will prompt you to accept the T&Cs. After you accept, it disappears :-)

I had the same problem. In Internet Accounts I noticed an inactive iCloud account (which related to a developer account that I needed for dual authentication).

I deleted that inactive account and the terms and conditions issue cleared itself.

If you have iCloud family sharing, make certain that each member of the family, especially a parent controlled minor, has accepted the Terms & Conditions as well. Although my kids have their own devices, I had the same problem on my iMac, after upgrading to Catalina yesterday, would annoyingly keep asking to accept the Terms & Conditions. I checked on my iPad and iPhone but it did not correct the problem. I even tried to logout and log back in to iCloud but that annoying exclamation mark remained on the System Preferences at the dock.

Thanks to Rafael Borges answer above, I went to Settings > Internet Accounts > and approved all the iCloud accounts listed on the box and resolved the problem.

My Problem was solved through the following action.

System Preferences > Internet Accounts,

Add a new iCould Account (e.g. one from your friends or family)

Then Delete that Account.

Thanks Rafael - that's been bugging me all day. One minor variant: in my case, simply clicking on both iCloud accounts in turn within the Internet Accounts, seemed to do the trick. Neither asked me to agree the T&Cs (although I had accepted them several times earlier!). Now the red indicator has disappeared and all seems to be normal. Cheers 👍

I had this problem too, and it was due to my two different iCloud account. I had to temporarily disable the non-primary one (just turn off all services for that account under Internet Accounts). During this disable/enable round, I was prompted to accept the terms for the non-primary account, and then Catalina was happy :)

Have you scrolled to the bottom of the Terms and Conditions before trying to accept them?

It happened to me too, I logged out and in again and the notification got removed, don't know for how long though

I found out the answer here:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/162232/apple-keeps-asking-me-to-accept-the-new-icloud-terms-and-conditions

lt;dr

There’s not a lot of chatter about this, primarily because it only affects a few few iPhone/iPad users who happen to have and use more than one Apple ID on their device. This is you, so here’s how to fix this:

1. Tap Settings > Internet Accounts, and then tap on the first iCloud account. If an approval is pending, you should see the Terms and Conditions popup.
2. Scroll to the bottom and tap the Accept link.
3. Repeat steps 1 & 2 for any other iCloud accounts you have showing in the list of accounts.

I was stumped, I have 4 computers running and updated, The only one with no issues is the one APPLE thinks is no longer useable. I signed out on 2 other computers and restarted this computers and they worked, but then my main iMac was not working for S**T, so I started looking and accepting the cloud conditions on both of my iCloud accounts worked like a champ, to get rid of the terms and conditions. and once that's done, I could get the iCloud main account to accept in to the computer. STRANGE, all computers are the same with accounts on them, and they all work the same, but the one I use most, caused the most problems.

For the Mac...

 > System Preferences... > Internet Accounts

Select your iCloud accounts and accept the T&C's, viola!

I am experiencing the same issue with the official release on 2019 MacBook Air.

I occasionally get an error message flashing too quickly to read - which I managed to replicate and record it to read:

'Server Error

iCloud could not be activated because of a server error. Please try again.'

So...I've tried to accept the t&c again & again this morning...it still won't let me. I have managed to take a photo of the message that very briefly pops up when I try to accept the T&C. It says

"Server Error. iCloud could not be activated due to a server error. Please try again."

So if this is the problem - it's not to do with having another account? Which I haven't got?! (as far as I know - any historic accounts I deleted years ago??) For me the duplicate account thing might be a red herring??

Maybe the Apple server is inundated & better to try again in a few days?! :(

Has anyone else got this problem? I'll update again if I have any joy!!!!!