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Hi all. I was recently trying to find out how I could sign out of my Apple ID on my Macbook Air. After reading the article about it here, I found the 'sign out' button, but when I tried clicking "sign out", it said "Preferences Error, There was an error in Apple ID preferences". Everytime I click sign out it comes up. I tried restarting my laptop as well but that didn't work. What should I do?
MacBook
ManavJacob Said:
”Signing out of my Apple ID: [...]After reading the article about it here, I found the 'sign out' button, but when I tried clicking "sign out", it said "Preferences Error, There was an error in Apple ID preferences[...]"
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Sign Out of Apple ID:
If Catalina, open TV app or Mail app — or if a Prior MacOS, open iTunes — then go to the Account menu and click Sign Out.
ManavJacob Said:
”Signing out of my Apple ID: [...]After reading the article about it here, I found the 'sign out' button, but when I tried clicking "sign out", it said "Preferences Error, There was an error in Apple ID preferences[...]"
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Sign Out of Apple ID:
If Catalina, open TV app or Mail app — or if a Prior MacOS, open iTunes — then go to the Account menu and click Sign Out.
If you are still having problems signing out of System Preferences, it might be a corrupt .plist.
Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.
Quit System Preferences.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
Thanks! This really helped!
ManavJacob Said:
”Signing out of my Apple ID: Thanks! This really helped!”
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You are welcome.
Thanks for your help. I did what you said and it worked!
You are welcome. Glad to help.
Signing out of my Apple ID
