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Oct 16, 2014 3:56 PM in response to marie2boyerby daddio54,I found this and used it on this site. It worked for my iPhone.
If you are receiving frequent prompts to sign in with your iCloud password, go to Settings>iCloud, tap Sign Out, choose Delete from My iDevice and provide your password when prompted (your data will still be in iCloud). Then sign back in (your data will download back to your device). See if that stops the prompts.
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Oct 16, 2014 3:59 PM in response to marie2boyerby léonie,This could be a problem of a missing app-specific password.
See this thread: Re: How to stop Calendar app from asking for my icloud password every 5 minutes
and : Using app-specific passwords http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6186
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Oct 16, 2014 4:02 PM in response to daddio54by marie2boyer,Since it is my iMac where I am receiving these popups, I am in system preferences and am signing out of iCloud.com. Right now I am signing back in. Hopefully this will fix it.
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Oct 16, 2014 4:35 PM in response to daddio54by marie2boyer,Signed out and back in. It did not fix it.
The popups are back.
Any other ideas?
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Oct 24, 2014 4:47 PM in response to marie2boyerby macuser7,It possibly could be an app that is asking, not necessarily your iCloud account. We are now required to obtain a 2-step Authentication password ###-###-###-### from your iCloud account to use with certain apps. My understanding is that way the app has its own password in order to work within the Mac environment, although you don't need to memorize it. It is kept in your Keychain account. It's a security measure to keep Apple IDs to our iCloud accounts only. I don't know what app is generating the password pop-up for you. For me, it was Fantastical, which piggybacks off Calendar.