Every time I login to my iMac, the iCloud login window pops up. I cancel it without any repercussions, in that my iCloud mail account and calendar updates still work fine. Any suggestion for stopping this annoying popup?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
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A number of users who have chosen to set up iCloud mail manually in the Mail application seem to encounter problems with continually being asked to sign in. This may well be a result of incorrect settings such as not setting 'Apple Token' for authentication under the accounts advanced settings.
A more general approach to remedying such problems would be to turn off Mail in System Preferences/Settings > iCloud, checking the account has been removed from Mail (and deleting it if it hasn't), restarting and then enabling iCloud Mail again from System Preferences/Settings > iCloud. This will ensure the correct settings are used.
Message was edited by: Winston Churchill
Welcome to the Apple Community.
A number of users who have chosen to set up iCloud mail manually in the Mail application seem to encounter problems with continually being asked to sign in. This may well be a result of incorrect settings such as not setting 'Apple Token' for authentication under the accounts advanced settings.
A more general approach to remedying such problems would be to turn off Mail in System Preferences/Settings > iCloud, checking the account has been removed from Mail (and deleting it if it hasn't), restarting and then enabling iCloud Mail again from System Preferences/Settings > iCloud. This will ensure the correct settings are used.
Message was edited by: Winston Churchill
The easiest thing to do is go to System Preferences/iCloud, uncheck everything so no data will sync, and then sign into iCloud.
Do you have other problems with your network.
Have you tried removing the account altogether and trying again.
Providing you are simply updating your existing details and not changing to another account, when you delete your account, all the data that is synced with iCloud will also be deleted from the device (but not from iCloud), but will be synced back to your device when you login again.
Thank you for your suggestions. I originally set up my iCloud account (including Mail) under System Preferences/Setting/iCloud and had checked that the Apple Token was being used for authentication and it was.
But just to see if this could be the problem, I unchecked Mail under my iCould account, checked within Mail that it has been deleted, restarted my iMac only to be greeted by the iCloud login popup again!
Totally flummoxed by this.
No other problems with my network. Have not tried removing the iCloud account as it shares calendar and notes with another person and I don't want to lose anything. If I do remove the account will it affect the other person's data on calendar and notes?
Thank you. I did as you suggested and, having restarted my iMac, the popup has gone. Funnily enough it had only been happening for the last few days, so what had changed I have no idea.
Thanks again.
Sorry I marked the email as this helped me, not this solved my question. Not sure how to change the response>
I don't use iCloud for ANYTHING and I still get this annoying pop up every time I restart my computer! What do you suggest?
Stop iCloud login popup on startup
