Mac icloud log in

I had a similar problem.

Initial symptomwas a slow finder, which turned out to be icloud drive not working. No solution was found to that. Then Mac app store would not download apps! I could log in ok, see my account details but apps would simply not download. One suggestion was to log out of iCloud and then log in again. This worked after a couple of tries, but then I kept getting told I needed to lo into icloud again.

Nothing I did or was suggested on other posts on various web sites worked.

I had another mac, iphone and ipad all successfully logged into icloud, but my main mac wouldn’t cooperate.

I only resolved the issue by doing a complete MacOS reinstall. That is erasing the startup disk and doing a clean install, after restarting the Mac in recovery mode.

After the reinstall and subsequent updates and copying back all my apps.

All is well.

Of course I then had to set all the permissions required by my apps (tedious to say the least).

So if you are still having problems I suggest you make sure everything is backed up and then do a clean reinstall.

There is some corruption somewhere in your set up that only a clean sweep (reinstall) will clear.

Hello Ros,

Thanks for reaching out to us in Apple Support Communities about signing into iCloud account on your Mac. We're happy to help by looking into this more! 

The following support article provides some troubleshooting steps to try for this behavior: If you can't connect or sign in to iCloud - Apple Support

If you try all these steps and still can't sign in, let us know specifically what error you receive and and we can continue to help.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards.

Hello Rosjaycdkt,

Thanks for trying the troubleshooting. At this point, you need to contact Apple Support to investigate this further with you.

Apple Support

Thanks.

Hi Ros,

Congratulations. Now the profile that still has problems can be deleted, yes?

Assuming you can copy from it all your docs etc.

I should have tried that myself. Doh!