Unable to connect to server to accept new icloud terms and conditions

I have tried everything in the list.

I tried signing into an old me.com account and the terms and conditions popped up just fine for me to agree to. Signed into my problematic account and the pop up windo still pops up for me to review, but there are no TnC for me to agree to. Tells me that it is a server related issue beacuse of the difference between two accounts on the same phone.

But I changed my password to my account on the computer and waited for my phone to prompt me for the password for icloud. Signed in, and seems to have resolved it. The message was coming up every few seconds. Haven't seen it in an hour now. Feels like i just rid myself of a mental disease or nervous tic syndrom that would have me click the middle of the screen every few seconds. Problem solved for me...for now.

After accepting the terms and conditions in the Find My Friends app it still wasn't working for me ... and then I rebooted the phone and it all came good.

Also, I found that this only happened when the upgrade was done on the phone instead of via iTunes (I did a phone and an ipad on iTunes no probs, then on the next phone clicked the upgrade option on the phone itself). In iTunes you have to accept new terms and conditions when you install an upgrade. I wonder if the sufferers on this post upgraded via the phone..

This did not work for me. It turned out to be the Time Zone settings on my icloud account. go to www.icloud.com in a web browser and log in. Then select "icloud settings" in the upper right corner under your name and change the Time Zone to the correct one when the settings load. This worked for me. I then went back to my iPhone and logged in just fine. Hope this works for anyone else.

If the "Find My Friends" trick doesn't work, log into your icloud account on the website (www.icloud.com) and go to your settings and check the Time Zone. Mine was set to PST but I'm currently in Dallas, so maybe that was throwing it off. After I changed it to CST, saved the setting, and then went back to iCloud on my iPhone, it worked!

Find My Friends didn't work for me. So I finally found the fix (for me anyway). I logged out of iCloud, restarted and then logged back in. As soon as I logged in the terms and conditions popped up and voila!

Go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset all settings

I then got a prompt to enter the password for my AppleID and then a prompt for accepting the terms and conditions.

Log in on your wi-fy

You will have to re set up your photo stream, but this is the only way if you do not have an Iphone or iPad 2 ora above.

So, location services was failing to connect to server on my phone plus a few related problems. After trying to solve it myself, looking things up and also seeing this post. I ended up calling apple support 1800-694-7466 ( for iPhones) They looked into it for a sec. and went over a few steps that may work for ya. he said that it might be my actual cellular data connection even though i had wifi. i didn't have a bad cell connection either but he advised me to turn on airplane mode for a min then back on and try it again immediately after it finds LTE or 3G. It only worked when I went through iCloud menu and it finally loaded the rest of my options for location services from there.(which is where my problem stated in the first place) Seems to work fine now. good luck. BTW calling apple actually helped me evaluate the problem and I give em props. TY apple!

for those who are on iOS 7 and can't download "find my friends" just open facetime and and it'll ask you to accept the new terms and conditions by clicking "ok" it'll redirect you to the icloud page and you will be able to accept the terms and remove the iCloud if you want

open facetime and and it'll ask you to accept the new terms and conditions by clicking "ok" it'll redirect you to the icloud page and you will be able to accept the terms and if you want to remove the iCloud without password look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zW21pt3UWg

Hi

Unfortunately before reading this thread and other discussions in the forum I have deleted my iPad from the Find my iPhone

Now I'm unable to login into iCloud on my iPad

Unable to contact the server is the standard response

I tried FaceTime but it is of no issue as the message "There was error connecting to the Apple ID server"

Unable to sign in via iTunes and App Store as the same above message is displayed

I'm helpless. Kindly let me know if there is a way to fix this issue!!

My son had a similar issue.

iPod Touch 5th Gen - iOS 9.3.5

The iPod restarted itself asking for it to be setup again. (Data, Passcodes, WiFi etc are still intact)

First thing is that it would not activate the iPod, so I had to plug it into iTunes and then it allowed me to activate it!

I was checking his other settings e.g. iCloud but when I went into that section it said I cannot do anything until I have accepted the 'Terms and Conditions', when I tried to accept them I got an error 'Unable to connect to server'. Previous posts suggested that I open 'Find my Friends' but that didn't work, it just took me straight back to the iCloud settings.

I noticed that his Date and Time were off so I readjusted them and everything kicked back into action. looks like apple servers don't like devices out of sync with their servers (some security thing)

Hope this post helps and not too long winded.

I am having the same problem. I was using icloud sync then began to have issues. I deleted my app from my android device and re-installed it. Still have the same issue. In the past it has worked fine. Very frustrating.

Yes. ****** annoying because iCloud basically will not work without accepting the Terms and Conditions.

This worked perfect, just open Find My Friends and it'll retrieve the new iCloud terms and conditions. Agree to those and and all iCloud services will be back online.