iCloud doesn't work on MacOS 14 Sonoma

Still persists after safe mode. This is an issue on Apple's end. I am on 14.1 Dev 3 now and it's not fixed, though icloud photos sync now works, and messenger now works. It still gives errors about data not syncing, and it's clearly on Apple's side.

Safe mode-8 hours disconnection-icloud login-/logout didn't work for me.here is my solution:

Go to searching on the settings

Write icloud and click the icloud ID

Wait a second and it will be fixed.I hope it works for yall guys..

I installed the update but it has not fixed the iCloud issue and other issues with the notes. You still have iCloud spinning and copying and typing over text grinds to a halt and takes several minutes for a few words to show. The iCloud does update as I can see the new notes if I sign to iCloud on a browser but it still makes working on notes almost impossible on MacBook Air M1.

Have you activated iCloud Drive? Have you upgraded your storage? The Sonoma upgrade worked just fine for me. Do you realize how much money they make with $2.99/month? What I don’t like is that they take all your stuff without asking!

This article (and Apple's "dataless" technical article linked to it) seems to provide a reasonable explanation about the problem—files that are stalled: https://eclecticlight.co/2023/10/25/macos-sonoma-has-changed-icloud-drive-radically/#:~:text=Summary,its%20entire%20contents%20from%20iCloud.

Even if iCloud is uploading and modifying the properties of all files it has stored ("evicted"), it makes no sense that this takes such a long time. In my case, 72 hours now without access to the files via Finder (only on the very limited Web version of iCloud).

The question is: Is it better to wipe out the drive and try to downgrade or stick to Sonoma and hope for a fix? Are the (so far) cosmetic changes worth the trouble? I wonder if a downgrade to Ventura would get me back on my feet faster.

So far, Sonoma is a huge waste of time—very frustrating, Apple!

I upgraded to Sonoma to get rid of a crashing problem without a hardware cause. Maybe a problem with the AppleId. Reading the thread, I suppose it was an iCloud problem all along. Computer erased, new Id and still a few crashes. New user account with old Id: no crash so far but no iCloud either, but all contacts, no files nor notes. After a few restarts, I got the Id icon back, a few more and I got access to notes.

No files in Finder, but the content bar in the Id shows them. Logout didn’t help.

My iCloud problem with Notes seems to have been sorted in the latest update. I had a long session with their help and had to upload capture data etc to them. Then a few days later the update happened and my problems went away!!

Hello shellhornj,

Thanks for checking. Since it's still not working on the new macOS, please contact Apple Support to investigate this more.

https://getsupport.apple.com

Thanks.

You discuss Mojave - this whole issue is related to the New Sonoma 14? I can't even get my System Settings to allow me to access it - this page is grey lite.

Did you install the 14.1 update release October 25?

It maybe lagging because it is synchronizing. Did you enable the "Optimize Mac Storage" slide and enable Notes in the iCloud options (see below).

Have you updated to the recently released sonoma? How you tried restarting your macbook?

One symptom is that ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com.apple.CloudDocs has gone away as of Sonoma 14.2. That mount point (softlinked to "iDrive") was how I used to access iCloud from the command line.

Hi chuckbl,

I had the same problem as shellhornj. I followed your second extended advice and I got my iCloud back.

Pretty glad as I shell out for 6TB and a lot of stuff is there.

Hope that it worked for shellhornj also and that Isabele lavedo is also up and running again.

Many thanks for your support!!

Double-Cheers!