My Mac keeps asking me for my iCloud Password, is that normal?

You know the Apple Store ID you have, the one that you use to sign into this forum?

That's the password I keyed in. It's just that simple. Yes. Simple. Simple. Something a Mac enduser will never know. SIMPLE

I understand the frustration - having an error - and then trying to fix it, and the realising that the fix is to be done somewhere else.....

Had similar problems today, entered the password several times in "iCloud" - "Back-to-my Mac" settings as mentioned by others here, and the went to iMessage - and the account information was completely missing. Enterede the missing information in iMassage, successfully. But guess what, after going back to "Back to my mac" settings, a message pop-up saying - "Please log out and then in again" from the service - and it was fixed. Maybe someone actually have improved something here? Thanks.

Just updated my 2012 MacBook Pro from Mavericks 10.9.5 to Yosemite 10.10.1

Never used iCloud.

Don't want to use iCloud at the present time.

I get a pop up on each log in asking me to sign in to iCloud.

System Preferences offers no iCloud options aside from signing in.

I don't want iCloud

I don't want to sign in.

I don't want to see the pop up.

I contacted support.

After 1/2 hour, the best they could suggest was resetting PRAM

I did that.

I still get sign in prompt on log in.

Please help me get rid of this pest.

You might try going to System Preferences>iCloud, click Sign Out, choose Delete at all of the prompts (your data will still be in iCloud), restart your Mac, then go back and sign back in. Then see if your password prompts stop.

I have the same issue.

Just upgraded to Yosemite. I am managing six accounts for the family:

- my account (manager)

- my wife (normal account)

- the kids (4 managed -parental control- accounts)

Everyone has an iCloud account. I entered the iCloud informations of everyone at the first login/installation of the Mac in each session.

It works great except for my wife's account:

After a Shutdown/Restart, for her session to login, the Mac prompts for:

- the iCloud password

- Agreement of Terms & conditions

- iCloud Keychain

It seems to finish again - each time- the setup/installation of the Mac.

This does not appear after a logoff/login of the session. Only after a shutdown of the Mac.

Already tried to logout of iCloud in this session, then restart the Mac, then login (during login process of the session) the iCloud password and other questions (see above).

This does not help, after a restart of the Mac, same requests appear.

Any ideas ?

Thx in advance,

Sebastien

I have the same issue. I upgraded to Yosemite on my iMac and now I keep being asked for my iCloud password all the time. I have lost my link to iCloud in iPhotos too. iCloud won't sign into mail either.I tried signing out and signing in again. I have even reset my Apple ID. This is driving me mad. I left windows to get away from this kind of thing!

No, no it's not that simple. No it's not Sam you am. I am posting because just like everybody else here, that method was already tried.

And guess what... it simply did not work. Therefore not simple.

I still get popups to enter my iCloud information every time I boot up.

Mine however did not start directly after installing Yosemite. It just started about a week ago.

Are there any apple employees who would care to read the forums and answer these unanswered questions?

At least say you're working on it please.

I had the same problem for several days. Got and iCloud password prompt every time I logged in. And when I put my password in it simply prompted again and again. But when I check in Settings - I'm logged into iCloud perfectly normally and my iCloud calendars and the like were correctly syncing to my Mac.

So iCloud was not the culprit?

Finally I realised that iMessage had stopped working correctly - so I couldn't use it to send SMS messages from my Mac desktop. To fix it I had to generate a new app specific password (I use Apple two step authentication). When I did this the problem went away.

So my theory is that the source of the password prompt is iMessage and not iCloud at all. If I'm right then this is extremely misleading.

It turns out iMessage was not logged into iCloud with a 2FA generated “Application specific password". Sheesh!

That is especially stupid since I have not run iMessage for at least 3 months and never even knew about such a maximum-security password, and iMessage is shown nowhere on the iCloud Prefpanel.

Very misleading.

I have three Macs, and I use 2-stage authentication for my iCloud login. First, this behaviour started on the 5K iMac (factory Yosemite install; disappointing, that), then it it started happening to my Air and Pro.

I have tried all the solutions suggested on the net; none is permanent.

So, these days I simply click cancel on the FT popup, then a second later do the same on the Message popup. I am only asked for this on startup.

Apple, really you need to fix this.

I have the same problem, and I also notice that iMessage stopped working (in Messages Prefs, it says I must use an app-specific password, which is a complexity I'm not eager to add).

For what it's worth, the following thread suggests iMessage problems since a recent Yosemite update (they say 10.10.3, although my problems began with 10.10.2):

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6995997

Therefore, I'm going to wait for another update and hope it's fixed, before I try anything on my own. If there's a KNOWN Apple bug, I'm even more cautious than usual about trusting Apple's cloud services--including toggling them off and back on. (Will I end up with duplicates? Lost data? Corruption? The chance is greater than zero, so I'll wait for the bug to be fixed.)

Hi,

I know I'm joining the topic real late, but until today I had the same problem on my MacBook Air. Every time I logged in, it kept on asking me to type in my iCloud password. But, since it wouldn't seem to recognize it, I was forced to "cancel" the request, consequently giving up on using iCloud sync for things such as the Notes app.

But today I tried something, and it worked, or so it seems, since the MacBook regained the iCloud synchronization, so I thought to share it with y'all, hoping it'll work.

What you have to do is create a specific password for iCloud, which DOES NOT mean to choose a new password for your iTunes and iCloud accounts. You have to go to your Apple ID webpage (here > Apple - My Apple ID ), log in and clic on "choose a specific app-password" (mind that I GUESS this is how the option shows up in English – I'm Italian and so I have it in Italian, that's just my translation. But the concept is this). Then, in the pop-up box, when it asks about the app you want to create a specific app for, you write "iCloud" (no quotation marks), and it SHOULD (I had to try it twice because the first time it gave me an error) create a specific password you'll have to type in the box when you log in.

And that's it!

I gained my iCloud synchronization, and everything until now is fine. So I hope this can help you! 🙂

As far as I think I know, this is related to two-step authentication option.

Hi Gabriel,

I saw your answer from Feb 17, 2015 4:35 PM:

Re: My Mac keeps asking me for my iCloud Password, is that normal?

"Finally I realised that iMessage had stopped working correctly - so I couldn't use it to send SMS messages from my Mac desktop. To fix it I had to generate a new app specific password (I use Apple two step authentication). When I did this the problem went away.

So my theory is that the source of the password prompt is iMessage and not iCloud at all. If I'm right then this is extremely misleading. "

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I have the same problem... Please would you mind explaining how you fixed this..?

i.e. the generation of a new app specific password - I'm not quite sure how to do this...

Many thanks, Karen

You need to enable 2 Factor Authentication on your Apple ID and create an app specific password to use. If your account won’t allow 2 Factor Authentication, try 2 step verification.

Apple ID -Two-factor authentication

Apple ID - Using app-specific passwords

Apple ID - Two Step Verification App Specific Passwords

Apple ID - Two Step Verifications FAQ

This was the solution to this same issue for me. Now I'm left wondering, why does my computer/the prompt asking for the password fail to use it to log in to the correct app, in this case iMessage?