My Mac keeps locking me out. I did use an old password twice, but from then on (for two days now) have used the correct password. First it locks me out for 5 minutes, then 15, then an hour, now on day two it’s 3 hours! I even went through the “recovery” process of resetting (changing) my password and the new password doesn’t work either. Locked out for 3 hours! What can I do?
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First, please check to see the Caps Lock keyboard function has not inadvertently been left active. Even if the Caps Lock green LED is not illuminated and / or the ⇧ icon does not appear in the password field, press the Caps Lock key (once) to toggle its state and try again.
Then: Even though you are completely certain the password you are using is 100% correct, please read If you forgot your Mac login password - Apple Support. Follow all of those steps from start to finish.
There are many steps that begin with "if" you see this or "if" you see that; the reason being is that there have been many Macs and many macOS versions and even more ways of configuring their login options, all of which have various ways of coping with allegedly incorrect or legitimately forgotten login credentials. Methodically exhaust every single one of those steps. You may eventually find yourself at the last and final step which is to completely erase the Mac and restore its content from a Time Machine backup. You have one, right?
First, please check to see the Caps Lock keyboard function has not inadvertently been left active. Even if the Caps Lock green LED is not illuminated and / or the ⇧ icon does not appear in the password field, press the Caps Lock key (once) to toggle its state and try again.
Then: Even though you are completely certain the password you are using is 100% correct, please read If you forgot your Mac login password - Apple Support. Follow all of those steps from start to finish.
There are many steps that begin with "if" you see this or "if" you see that; the reason being is that there have been many Macs and many macOS versions and even more ways of configuring their login options, all of which have various ways of coping with allegedly incorrect or legitimately forgotten login credentials. Methodically exhaust every single one of those steps. You may eventually find yourself at the last and final step which is to completely erase the Mac and restore its content from a Time Machine backup. You have one, right?
Thank you. After going through all the steps yet again and resetting my password yet again, I have access to my computer…mostly…still something about ICloud not syncing…I’ll deal with that another day…so done for today!!
I did. 😢. It didn’t help.
hey help me see my issue in my profile please sir i am soo scared
MacBook Air locking me out with ever increasing timeouts
