iCloud keychain verification always pending
All of my devices, whether they're updated to IOS 8 or not (iPhone 5 and iPad Mini), including my iMac and my MacBook Air, cannot ever verify and connect to the iCloud keychain. They all try, but it never seems to work.
Thinking my acocunt is messed up from the top, I've gone through all the process and updated my iTunes account password and all the rest of my password codes. My 4-digit security code seems to have been taken from the same code I use to lock my phone - I never setup a security code with Apple beyond my itunes/icloud password. I've subsequently reset it trying to fix this issue.
At this time, all my Apple devices prompt me to verify my iCloud keychain status - and since I have no device approved, technically speaking, none of my devices can verify any of the others. It's like a chicken and egg catch-22 problem.. only there's a lot of chickens and no eggs.
When I go through the process on my phone (the most annoying place to have this come up is while navigating in traffic, BTW)(very dangerous) - I have to enter in my itunes password, then my pin, then I get a text back with a six-digit code. Once I enter that code from the text message, it phone looks good for about 1/2 a second, then it displays like it was before I tried this - and says it's "pending verification" Pending verification from what??
This happens across all my devices - IOS and OSX.
This problem is bad enough that I'm questioning the use of iCloud at all - I mean, the keychain concept is good - but if I cannot even log into it or find relevant supporting documentation, then iPay (which depends on this) is doomed to fail. I don't look forward to doing this crap 100 times on my iPhone 6+ when it ships.