Lately, all of a sudden I am getting the same pop-up throughout the day or when I open my Macbook Air to use it.
"Can't Use Your Apple ID on This Device
Your Apple ID can ony be used on devices running iOS 16.2 or later, or macOS 13.1 or later. This Macbook Air can't be updated to the latest Software."
Why is this suddenly a problem and why is it telling me I cannot use my Apple ID?
This is crazy. How to fix this?
Earlier Mac models
Jeff Quickle wrote:
No I am doing this on my Macbook Air.
Well, that’s a problem.
You cannot turn on or use Advanced Data Protection on your Mac because its operating system is too old. So you can’t turn it off there either.
Use some other Apple device. Surely you have one or you couldn’t have started Advanced Data Protection to begin with.
Jeff Quickle wrote:
No I am doing this on my Macbook Air.
Well, that’s a problem.
You cannot turn on or use Advanced Data Protection on your Mac because its operating system is too old. So you can’t turn it off there either.
Use some other Apple device. Surely you have one or you couldn’t have started Advanced Data Protection to begin with.
You have elected to use Advanced Data Protection. The restrictions noted are requirements for using this feature.
Advanced Data Protection for iCloud - Apple Support
No I am doing this on my Macbook Air. It seems I must have turned on Advanced Data Protection. But it is not allowing me to go in and turn it off because it asks for my Apple password and when I try to use that the message shown above pops up.....
Monterey 12.7.5
Jeff Quickle wrote:
Monterey 12.7.5
As you can see, that fails to meet the requirement of 13.1 or later.
So how old is your MacBook Air and what version of macOS is it currently running?
Are you attempting this on some device authorized to perform Advanced Data Protection? Obviously that excludes your Mac.
I am not being allowed to go into PREFERNCES, click my name, then iCloud and change or Turn Off Advanced Data Protection.
So it seems I cannot fix this.
When I try to do this I am asked for my Apple ID to get inside to make this change. But the same pop-up tells me I cannot use my Apple ID.
OK great! I hope you are right and I can turn it off on my iphone or Mac mini.
Thank you.....
You’re welcome.
Enjoy your Apple gear.
Apple ID Cannot Be Used on This Device
