Q: Your iCloud password for [my email address] is incorrect.
I'm running 10.9.5 on my MacBook Air, and recently (days?) I keep getting the following message:
"Your iCloud password for [my email address] is incorrect. Please ensure you are entering the correct password for your iCloud account."
Knowing that my iCloud user ID and password are the same as my Apple ID, I type in my Apple password, but the dialog immediately comes back. If I click Cancel, it sleeps for 20 minutes, then asks (annoys) me again.
Just to be sure that I my password was correct, I successfully logged into icloud.com. Yup, it worked fine there.
Based on other discussion postings, I thought it might be a damaged keychain, so I repaired it (it did need repairing), and restarted, but that didn't solve the problem. I then deleted three related keys, but still no success.
Again, based on other discussion postings, I signed out of my iCloud account (which was scary as my contacts and calendar disappeared) and signed back in successfully, but still the error message appears. Ug!
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Posted on Oct 10, 2014 12:46 PM