When I try to sign into the iCloud from my system preferences, I get this message "this apple id is valid but not an icloud account"
But I'm able to sign into icloud.com, itunes. My email and calendars are not synching. Can someone please help. Thanks.
What version of OSX are you using, 10.7 or 10.8?
Go to www.icloud.com and sign into your account, does that work?
iCloud.com works fine.
So you do have an account, this is a little odd. I must ask ... you are signing into iCloud (in system preferences) using the same login as you do for iCloud.com?
Restart the machine and try again.
Yes, I have an account. iMessage is not working, system preferences won't allow my icloud. Thanks for your help CSound, I'm going to take it to the apple store at some point today.
If you have not done so already I would restart the machine and try again, but this doesn't make much sense so a trip to the store is probably needed.
Post back after the trip, my curiosity is high 🙂
It is doing the same to me after changing my password, work on all devices but my computer, this happened recently too and I had to talk to customer support - What a waste of time!!!
After I changed my password i had the same problem. Seems to be solved after the restart. Thanks 🙂
I had the same issue. I restarted my computer and tried to reset the PRAM but still now success. After restarting a second time it worked no problem.
I'm having the same problem on my iMac running 10.7. Unofrtunately my iMac cannot run an OS that's any newer than this. I also have an iPhone 3GS of which I'm using iCloud with no problem. I have an iCloud email address and can login to iCloud.com fine.
I'm getting this same message over and over, no matter how many times I restart my computer. I've reset the PRAM, repaired permissions and verified the disk. Not sure what to do 😟
I am trying to set up icloud on my windows platform, windows 8. I am receiving the same message when trying to set up iCloud - this apple id is valid but is not an iCloud account. No kidding, I'm trying to set one up. My only apple product is a very old, non supported ipod touch that I cant set up, either. I have restarted four times.
i have also restarted multiple times and uninstalled and reinstalled icloud 3 times. same message
It's useless, nobody going to answer, i have same problem with iCloud and app store too, iTunes works for some reason, as many times i have try to solve login issues with apple accounts... NOTHING!!! I can't understand what is wrong with apple accounts.
viewlife wrote:
It's useless, nobody going to answer, i have same problem with iCloud and app store too, iTunes works for some reason, as many times i have try to solve login issues with apple accounts... NOTHING!!! I can't understand what is wrong with apple accounts.
And yet you provide no information along with the whining. If you have the same problem it is because you are running Windows.
Start your own thread.
this apple id is valid but not an icloud account
