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My icloud I.d will not log me onto my new mac. Why?

My icloud username and password will not let me loggin to my new mac. I have changed it on my iPad, but still doesn't work so I can't even get onto the mac. What can I do?

Posted on Feb 24, 2013 8:37 AM

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Posted on Feb 24, 2013 8:41 AM

Because you need to create a new admin account on the computer with a different username and password. Your Apple ID and password are not also the default username and password for the computer.

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Feb 24, 2013 9:27 AM in response to Cozy a

Did you already go through the Setup Assistant? This is what you go through when first turning on the new computer. If so then you were asked to provide a username and password when creating the initial user account. Do you remember what you set up at that time? If you don't even know what the username was then you might try this:


Forgot Your Account Password


For Snow Leopard and earlier


Mac OS X 10.6- If you forget your administrator password


For Lion/Mountain Lion


Boot to the Recovery HD:


Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.


When the menubar appears select Terminal from the Utilities menu.

Enter resetpassword at the prompt and press RETURN. Follow

instructions in the dialog window that will appear.


Or see Reset a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Password and

OS X Lion- Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.




As a last resort boot into Single-user Mode. When the prompt appears enter the following commands. Press RETURN after each:


mount -uw /

cd /private/var/db

rm ../.AppleSetupDone

shutdown -r now


When the computer restarts it should default to the Setup Assistant. You can then create a new user account with a new username and password.

My icloud I.d will not log me onto my new mac. Why?

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