When I installed iOS5 and setup iCloud on my iPhone 4 I was instructed to wait for an email from Apple with instructions for verifying the account. I still haven't received the email. I even tried deleting the account and setting it up again several times. I get the same instructions every time to wait for the email but no email comes. Anybody have any idea how many days it takes apple to send the email?
Consider that every iPhone user in the world (which I think is several hundred...) is trying to do the same thing at the same time.
Give it a day or two and try again. Assuming that you can afford adequate food and heating in the meantime. 😝
Same problem, same result....no email!!!!!!!!!!
Same issue here. I cannot verify online and get no email link to the Verification process. Hmmm!
im the same, i can get the email but it says to click on the link below but there is no LINK to click on!!!!!
I managed to get mine working by going to https://appleid.apple.com/ and setting up the apple id.
I have had the same problem as well. It has been 4 days since I upgraded my phone. I have lost all contacts that were put in phone the last 5 months. I Can view my music in itunes, but can not play anything. All aplications are working, but without the verification I can not download ANYTHING or play music. Where is the email verification??? I have tried atleast 20 times. 😢 What is happing to my iphone?
Thank you Walter, I did the same and the update started immediately. 🙂
I went to that page and tried to 'manage my account'. I clicked on the link to 'Verify now' and it does nothing. 😟
I'm desprate to get this cloud thing up and running. When I upgraded to the new OS, my itunes screen was saying 'backing up', 'backing up' for like 10 mins (I assumed it was backing up, right??)...then when I went to complete the process it asked if I wanted to use a back up and I said yes, and I chose the most recent from the drop down list and it said the back up could not be located...so I tried another back up, and then a third (and last) back up - all giving me the same error 'could not be located'. There was no way to abort or cancel at that point...so I ended up having to setup as a new phone. THREE YEARS of pics and videos of my kids are now lost, but I'm hoping against hope maybe it's stuck in an iCloud? I won't know until I get it activated. Apple, please help!
Can't activate iCloud. Account not verified.
