How do I recover my iCloud password?

I just experienced a similar problem. I could not connect to my iCloud email account even though I hadn't changed the password and should have been stored correctly in my Keychain. I clicked on the iForgot link and attempted to reset my password from the apple id site. I successfully changed the password but was still unable to log on to iCloud mail on my iPhone or laptop.

After several minutes of extreme frustration (do you know that you still have to pay for customer care if you don't have a current apple protection plan for a device even if it's network not device related???) I realized that I was able to log on with my new password to all the apple sites (store, support etc) but not iTunes or iCloud. This baffled me for a few minutes and I thought to check my Keychain passwords as mentioned earlier in this post. Didn't help much though because mine were also listed as a bunch of random characters.

I went back to the apple ID site to change my password again thinking that maybe it just didn't update all the way through the system. At this point I realized that if you just type in your apple ID (fake example: kittyfan42) it automatically fills in the @me.com. This is true for all the apple sites. Since I've had a mac email address since they came out (sometime before 2004) my iCloud and iTunes accounts are set to @mac.com. This is confusing because if you send me an email to kittyfan42@mac.com and a different one to kittyfan42@me.com they go to the same place. HOWEVER, it turnes out that if you change the password to kittyfan42@me.com it DOES NOT automatically change the password to kittyfan42@mac.com.

I went back to the apple ID reset site and entered kittyfan42@mac.com (typing out the whole thing) clicked the option to reset with the questions and got a whole new set of prompts (it was a struggle trying to remember my answers from 10 years ago!). Reset that password successfully and was able to log on to my iCloud account.

Hope this helps.

Anne,

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. Typing the whole thing out solve my problems.

Hugs and Kisses,

James

Same here

Have you ever (or anyone else) found out why the icloud psw is encrypted in keychain?

The reason why is because of OS X Mavericks

My harddrive wont mount even FTK Can't get it to mount, luckily I have had some training and have gotten some of the stuff back, but trying to reset my main icloud psw is a complete pain since I can't remember the recovery questions. I have the keychain though.

Anyone have any ideas how to get the keychain to not display the long RSA 2048bit version?

Wilmut1 is correct, at least in my case is in fact true, my password's for each must be different, I do not recall whether or not this is true for the user portion..

how can i recovry my icloud password

Go to http://iforgot.apple.com and sign in with your iCloud login. A new password will be sent to your associated email address. If this doesn't work you will have to contact Support. Go to https://getsupport.apple.com; click' See all products and services', then 'More Products and Services, then 'Apple ID', then 'Other Apple ID Topics' then 'Lost or forgotten Apple ID password'.

tans

Anne Cucumber

tankssssssss

I don't know password for me.com either.

Start your own thread, this one is ancient

Josephine lee