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Why do my Macs and devices keep asking for my appleid password? iCloud login loop bug?!

Lately my iPhone 8 Plus, my two iMacs and my MacBook Pro (10.15.7) all keep asking for my AppleID and password. I checked https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/ and saw that there was an issue noted with iCloud quoted below


"iCloud Account & Sign In - Resolved Issue


Today [Wednesday Nov 4, 2020], 8:00 AM - 10:18 AM

Some users were affected

Users may have experienced a problem with this service."


However, I had trouble with this before and after the times indicated. I used all of the Hacks found at

https://www.imore.com/ios-help-how-fix-repeat-icloud-sign-requests-iphone-and-ipad

and at

https://appletoolbox.com/icloud-keeps-asking-for-password-ios-and-os-x-fix/


This, I've found, at the second site is a well-known problem, aptly named the iCloud login loop bug.

You may experience this iCloud login loop bug after an update. You are asked to enter your iCloud password, and the popup message goes away. But only temporarily, after a short time (usually after a reboot) that iCloud popup reappears asking for the password AGAIN.


I tried many of the fixes noted and it helped, but only temporarily. At this point it seems easier to just supply the AppleID and password each time rather than follow all of the steps listed. Or sometimes I just click cancel but I have to do that multiple times.


This is an issue on all of my devices and whenever I use Music. Apple ID and iCloud topics


Is there a more elegant or convenient solution to this problem? If not, why the [insert expletive] not?


iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 4, 2020 11:05 AM

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Nov 5, 2020 7:26 AM in response to MRBarrett27

8:47:41 AM Thursday, November 5, 2020


I just encountered the Sign In to Podcasts. Podcasts Bookkeeper Sync Loop bug [my coinage] on my new iMac. I'm including this here because these problems seem related.



I don't even know which password to use—Apple ID password or password for that computer? Who asked for this? I tried just clicking on cancel but that just seemed to make it mad and several appeared. I quit Podcasts but for a few minutes the alert kept appearing—I was able to repeatedly click cancel to finally make it go away. Though I have given up trying to use Podcasts on my new iMac.


I speculate that this is part of a set of errors that appear after updates and after problems with Apple Systems see


https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/


Recent or current problems there (and there are many, 12, at the moment) seem to be the cause of this Sign In to Podcasts. Podcasts Bookkeeper Sync loop bug and the "iCloud login loop bug ?


I also wonder if it is related to the breakup of iTunes because these password loops appear, for me at least, when using Music and now Podcasts. Counting on my Apple products to just work was one of the things that gave me joy. I'm not feeling it now.

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