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Can't verify server, setup.icloud.com

I checked my iphone 4s running 7.0.4 ios after it died and I charged it to find an error message Cannot Verify Server Identity and them it goes on to say that it cannot identify my yahoo mail. I chose to continue to find out that my time and date are wrong.So I go and try to fix that, but its set on set automatically and not working. I turned off automatic and set it myself, but them I find out that it won't connect to wifi, send or recieve any calls or texts, pretty much won't do anything but play my games without wifi. I first try to reset my phone to find out that I have to turn off Find Your Phone to do this. I go to iCloud in Settings and it gives me another error Verification Failed-The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be "setup.icloud.com" which could put your confidential information at risk. Then I thought maybe it was my yahoo account on my phone because the first error said it couldn't verify my yahoo account, so I delete that and it gets rid of the first error, but didnt change anything else. I searched for ways to fix this and tried many like resetting all my settings and resetting network settings, but that didn't work. Finally after doing everything I can think of since I can't reset my phone from backup, I go to my clock app (the app not in the Settings) and delete all time zones but the one I'm in now. Then I go back to the date and time settings in the Settings and put that back to set automatically and it works. Suddenly all my stuff works again and I might not of had to delete my yahoo account, but it's easy to add it back on. I hope this information helps someone, I know I worked for hours on my phone trying to figure this out.

iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Nov 27, 2013 9:09 AM

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Jul 26, 2018 1:04 AM in response to Anthea1121

Your solution worked on my iPod Touch 5th Gen (iOS 8.1), thank you very much. I had deleted all time zones from the Clock app a couple of days ago, and the problems (wrong time & date - cannot verify server identity) started after it ran out of battery and I charged it. I can't possibly understand how can such a likely-to-happen action as deleting a time zone from the Clock app can cause such inconveniences and worst of all, that it's not been fixed yet. C'mon Apple! Thanks again Anthea1121.

Nov 19, 2014 10:47 AM in response to s_mack

Well done, The hours spend on trying............reading .........tearing my hear ............looping around & finally stumbled upon your solution

Can confirm that on Iphone 5 ( With latest iOS 8.1.1 ) in Settings / General / Date & Time / Set Automatically to ON did the trick.

Thank you for posting THE solution for : " there was an error connecting to Icloud" / "Safari certificate issue when connecting to Icloud" with (definitely) correct password.

Can't verify server, setup.icloud.com

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