“New iCloud Terms & Conditions” Popup Bug — Post Ventura Update

This suggestion of logging out of iCloud, then logging out of my 2017 MBP, restarting it, then logging back in and going through the process of logging back into iCloud and approving the machine reset everything, worked for me this morning. The notification is gone as of me writing this.

Logging out worked for me too but then reappeared some weeks later. And logging out is a pain when you have multiple devices, computers, phones etc plus family sharing.

Accepting the update in Settings on my iPhone was the best and easiest solution for me.

Worked like a charm. I too have two iCloud accounts, but New iCloud Terms & Conditions acceptance was being acknowledged by only one of the iCloud accounts on my iMac. So, using the Mail accounts on my iPhone, and the second iCloud account, I go the request to approve, which I did, and not not more reminders to accept T&C on my Mac. Thanks.

I have the same problem. I have responded more than 30 or 40 times and the message keeps popping up. The indication remains in the System Settings after I respond... and to make it worse, I just bought the computer a few days ago... please advise!

teltonengineering Said:

“New iCloud Terms & Conditions: Popup Bug — Post Ventura Update: Unfortunately, even in safe-mode I was unable to resolve this issue. I ended up reverting back to an old time machine backup and it did finally go away.”

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Thanks for the followup reply.

TMB Restoration:

A TMB restoration would make sense as a solution. The only regretful thing about doing that is loss of data. So I don’t know how old “Old” officially is, but take this as a learning experience, knowing to back up every-so-often. Maybe give it a few weeks and see if this all goes away. Then, try this install once more.

teltonengineering Said:

"'New iCloud Terms & Conditions’ Popup Bug — Post Ventura Update: Unfortunately, even in safe-mode I was unable to resolve this issue. I ended up reverting back to an old time machine backup and it did finally go away.”

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Thanks for the followup reply.

TMB Restoration:

A TMB restoration would make sense as a solution. The only regretful thing about doing that is loss of data. So I don’t know how old “Old” officially is, but take this as a learning experience, knowing to back up every-so-often. Maybe give it a few weeks and see if this all goes away. Then, try this install once more.

Excellent job troubleshooting!

The issue is that the version of iCloud Terms and Conditions is that the are not current so accepting them is insufficient.

Contact Apple support and they can update the "iCloud Terms and Conditions" and they they can be accepted. I had to go past the chat to a phone call to get that resolved.

The very absent person here is the one from Apple support, admitting that Apple has a long standing bug and how it can be resolved. Having to resolve this trhough chat is not OK. Is it a cultural thing in the US not to admit your mistakes, or the fact that everyone gets sued over nothing :-)

The problem - in my case - was 2 AppleIDs, which is not very well supported yet. I had to accept the new terms and conditions to use iCloud on my Mac, but I could apparantly do this as well from my iPhone - uh for all my Macs.

Settings->Mail->visit secondary iCloud email account. As mentioned before by someone. You get the conditions dialog there after a short load delay. And then the notification goes away immediately on every Mac.

Multiple Apple IDs - logical if you have a European company that needs VAT invoices for software, and you use your Mac also privately - is somehow not well understood by Apple. But a little support is always better then no support :-)

My wife had the same problem. It turned out to be that my wife's mac was logged into iCloud on my account, probably from when I first set it up. I am the icloud owner but shared with her. I logged her out of iClound on her mac and then logged her in again on her mac with her iCloud account. Problem resolved.... Key was to notice on her mac when asking to agree to terms and conditions, it was asking for the password to my account. Took me several times before I saw that....

this has been anoying me and calling apple was zero help other than a wipe and reinstall suggestion.

but THIS TIP WORKED!! I have a few icloud accounts and went into each on my iphone and agreed to the T&C, and poof... vanished on my phone :) thank you SO MUCH!!

Awesome, thanks. This has been messing with me for weeks. This is what finally fixed it for me, although I had to log back into the alternative account on my Mac as I had tried to change the password to fix this a while back.

Frustrated aswell,

By happenstance tried the following:

Apple => System Settings => Name (Apple ID)=> then signed out of iCloud.

Then signed back in to iCloud (no change to login info). For me at least, the pop up stopped.

TheLittles wrote:

“I did that and nothing changed, still the same problem: And even in the previous pictures, it appears that I deleted it”

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New iCloud Session:

Sign Out of iCloud on your Mac, and then log back in. Go into System Preferences > Click your name on the left > Sign Put > Restart the Mac > Sign back in.

For clarity, at first glance, the above suggestion appears to describe several different steps in succession. However, this suggestion actually mentions the same solution twice.

"Sign out of iCloud on your Mac, and then log back in" is the recommended solution.

Then, the next part ("Go into System Preferences…) describes the individual steps required to sign out and log back in. These appear to be additional steps, but they are not.

(This solution did work for me. Thanks!)

There appears to be no option to sign out of iCloud on my Macbook Pro Ventura 13.3.1 (a). I have already tried a power cycle. Is Apple Menu -> Log Out [My Name] the same as signing out of iCloud? Thanks.

I can now confirm that Apple Menu -> Log out only results in a longer than normal delay before the Popup appears. Also, I noticed a pop-up error message that immediately disappears. Made a screen capture video but can't upload it because of privacy. Basically it is a yellow triangle icon with a cloud "badge", title "Server Error", body "iCloud could not be activated because of a server error. Please try again" and an OK button but it disappears without letting me click OK.