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Oct 24, 2015 4:39 PM in response to Christoffer Bergby BimboBoy,That did it for me too! Thank you so much! That error message was getting on my nerves. :)
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Dec 19, 2015 5:53 AM in response to Christoffer Bergby shafez,Didn't work for me, Only for the day I do it and then next day back to the ugly message again
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Dec 25, 2015 7:47 PM in response to shafezby chasan,Seems that I finally found a solution in my case that I didn't find mentioned anywhere: I went to appleid.apple.com, changed my Apple ID password, and then reverified it on every Apple device (iOS and OS X). After a few minutes everything seems to be working fine again, no more "This Mac can't connect to iCloud..." popups. Hope it helps someone else, it was a very frustrating problem.
P.S. I think what trigger the problem in my case was that I logged out from iCloud on my Mac, and then logged in again but using my @icloud.com e-mail address instead of my Apple ID's primary email address (a @gmail.com e-mail address).
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Dec 25, 2015 9:42 PM in response to chasanby chasan,Problem is back again, now on my Macbook and Macbook Pro
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Dec 27, 2015 3:54 AM in response to chasanby Berzerk,What I did was opening Keychain. Then I did a search for icloud and found like 5 or so entries. I deleted all of them and then logged in back to icloud via system preferences icloud. So far this works fine and I could see how keychain was restoring the deleted entries. No idea if this is sustainable.
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Dec 27, 2015 5:31 AM in response to Berzerkby Davvido,I have the same issue on my MacBook Air (OS X 10.11.2) and iPhone 6s (iOS 9.2). Both devices keep asking for password. I changed the password on Apple ID website, also I removed entries in Keychain and I still have this problem. Apple, what's going on with you... I remember times when I could use my Mac for a year without any issue, today it's like one issue for a week...
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Dec 27, 2015 8:25 AM in response to Davvidoby chasan,I even did a clean install of OS X 10.11.2, and during the initial OS X setup I was able to login in iCloud but after a while I started to see again the "This Mac can't...." and worse, in iPhone and iPad mini (where I didn't make any changes) I started to see "Apple ID Verification. Enter the password for xxx@gmail.com in Settings" popup. So in Summary, I had to disable iCloud in my Mac (otherwise they're unusable, popup doesn't let me do anything at all) and iPhone/iPad are still in iCloud but I get this popup once in a while.
I also tried removing things in Keychain, but since a clean OS X install didn't work, I don't know if it's going to help.
Worst christmas ever.
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Dec 28, 2015 11:57 PM in response to chasanby chasan,Good news! I followed these instructions to solve the problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/29517113#29517113
Basically I manually unlocked the System Roots keychain using Keychain Access and then logged in iCloud using Internet Accounts preferences (not iCloud preferences, but I don't know if it makes any difference). I saw no error messages in iCloud preferences nor the "This Mac can't connect..." pop up window. I'll wait a day at least to make sure this actually worked.
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Feb 21, 2016 9:17 PM in response to project7070by morgsxj,THIS WORKED! I cannot thank you enough. I have spent all day trying to figure out how to get rid of it, and I am constantly on my computer for work so I kept having to enter it to view my E-Mail over and over and over again. Thank you so much!!!!
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Feb 22, 2016 3:32 PM in response to mzeaby Leif Arthur,This message has become a fact of life for me. It suddenly started happening on every Mac I use (2 running Mavericks and 1 running El Capitan) in every user account. The "delete and reinstall" has not worked at all. Right now, in the account I'm using, there are nine entries for my icloud password in the keychain, leading me to suspect that it is not about icloud, but that the keychain itself is broken. The keychain is a pretty important OS component, if an update has ruined it permanently are we stuck with it? Also, do we even need icloud? Maybe it is time to look for alternatives?
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Feb 22, 2016 6:30 PM in response to Leif Arthurby chasan,Did you try following these instructions:
They fixed the issue for me in December 2015. No more probkems since them in two machine running OS X El Capitan.
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Mar 3, 2016 12:33 PM in response to mzeaby Orville Scott,You said how we need to back everything up first. How would I back something up?
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Mar 14, 2016 1:41 AM in response to project7070by MiniQuini,Fixed the issue for me as well! Thank you!
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Mar 22, 2016 4:10 AM in response to mzeaby shafez,it seems that the problem was with login with iCloud password as it is removed in the the 10.11.4 update and it just fixed my problem
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May 1, 2016 5:43 AM in response to shafezby shafez,the problem was solved for me after logging in in iMessage and FaceTime , and none of the other solutions worked for me.
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