I can't turn off iCloud keychain

Well, I'm unable to turn my iCloud keychains ON in the System Preferences. I go to iCloud->Keychain, and click the thing "on." When I go back, it's "off."

I finally got mine turned off - it was doing exactly what you described. Here is what I did:

1. Open Safari

2. Choose Safari->Preferences

3. Choose "Passwords"

4. Uncheck "AutoFill user names and passwords"

5. Choose "AutoFill"

6. Uncheck all items

7. Close Preferences

8. Close Safari

9. Reboot

10. Open System Preferences

11. Choose iCloud

12. Select "Sign Out"

Hope it works for you!

mx250man thank you for the tip. I was experiencing several issues with Keychain (will continue to rely on 1Password) and had the exact same problem as the OP...uncheck "Keychain" in iCloud preferences and it would immediately re-check itself. ???

Doing as you suggested resolved the problem. Absurd but I suppose there's a method to that madness somewhere. Or it's a bug that'll get ironed out. :\

Thanks again!

Well, I spoke too soon. Although I was able to uncheck Keychain in my iCloud preferences on my iMac (OS X 10.9) by following the steps above, when I rebooted it was checked again and even after following the steps I'm unable to get it to stay unchecked OR sign out of iCloud - due to Keychain remaining active.

I've signed out of iCloud on my MacBook Air and deleted my account completely from my iPhone 4 and iPhone 5s. AFAIK there are no other iCloud services running.

I still cannot get it to uncheck without immediately rechecking itself again and am unable to sign out of iCloud on my iMac...getting this error:

No idea how to proceed.

The above worked for me on my Imac. It did not on my MBP. I got the exact same message

Keychain is a mess, it has several 'old' keychain passwords from my different device copied. Now I like to restart with a clean chain.

Deactivated keychain on alle my devices (including iphone and pads) except for the mbp ofcourse were i manually deleted all entries in the keychain.

activated one by one the devices again.

after a while, some of the "old" entries appear again...

So I'm wondering...does keychain need to be active on at least one device? That would explain why I could uncheck it on all of my Apple products except my iMac.

Now that it's only running on my iMac things seem to have settled down. Apparently 10.9.1 is due for release any minute now. Hopefully Apple will have sorted out this issue.

You will need to set up keychain correclty in order to turn it off. So follow the guidelines from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5813?viewlocale=en_US in order to set up keychain correctly. Includes phone number verification.

Than reset the network settings (go to: settings / general / reset / network settings) -> please keep in mind that the saved wi-fi passwords will be erased, and than go to settings / icloud and turn off the keychain. This should solve the issue. 🙂

I have the same problem, did anyone find a solution to this? Still cannot sign out of icloud.

Try to sign in completly, so sign in with phone number and everything and then sign out. It should work.

Otherwise you can try to call apple care, they might be able to help you.

This Works for me, thanks

Same problem here. I can turn off iCloud Keychain on iPhone and iPad but I can't turn it off on the iMac (with keeping passwords stored on my Mac). Sync is not working between devices so I need to turn Keychain off on all devices before I turn it back on step by step.

None of the steps mentioned above have worked.

I had a similar problem on a macbook where I had just added an iCloud account with keychain checked. I was trying to delete it, but it would not because key chain was enabled. But I could not turn off key chain either. I tried the suggested steps found here and on other threads as well but it did not work.

But it got fixed when I actually completed the iCloud "new device added" (not sure of the exact wording) approval process. I had to accept or refuse the request to add this macbook on the other machine. Once I refused it, I was able to de-activate keychain, and then delete my iCloud account on that computer.

Hi cmont133,

How did you add the new device?

I still cannot uncheck my keychain on icloud 😟

Thanks.

Same issue.

I tried going to Keychain Options and changing my Security Code, but that didn't trigger any good behaviour.

I also tried opening Keychain Access and doing first aid, but that didn't help either.

The iCloud Sign-out process appears to be conditional on the Keychain service being de-selected from iCloud, but something is stopping the Keychain process.