iCloud keychain stuck on "waiting for approval from another device"

I Just fixed it for a customer's Phone. What I did was have her log into icloud.com, clicked on settings, manage account. That brought us to apple.com. Signed in there then went to account, clicked edit on the right side, then turned OFF Two-Factor Verification. (which prompted her to make new or redo her security questions) After that we went back to the phone, it had her type in her apple id password a few times then tried to do the approval and it worked.

I'm having this exact same problem on my Mac Pro. I've signed out of iCloud, and then signed back in, and the same thing happens. Apple sends the code to my phone, I enter it on my mac, it spins a bit and then says "Waiting for approval from other device."

This worked for me. I can't take credit, I found this on another site.

1. Turn off iCloud Keychain if it’s on on all of your devices.
2. From one of your iOS devices, go to Keychain and tap Approve with Security Code.
3. When prompted for the 4-digit iCloud Security code tap Forgot Code.
4. Follow the prompts to reset the code (the easiest thing is to use the same code that you use for the device you’re on).
5. Now this device should have iCloud Keychain enabled and working.
6. Now from your other devices, enable iCloud Keychain.
7. You should get a notification on the working device about this.
8. Enter your iCloud password in the prompt.
9. iCloud Keychain should now be enabled on this device.
10. Repeat for your other devices.

Hope this helps!

I had the exact same problem and this solved it for me. Thanks for posting!!

worked for me many thanks

Thanks for the info....after hours of trying to set up keychain I came across your post. Worked right away. Thanks !

I'm having the exact same issue. Please help, thank you!

Sorry, my issue is solved. Thank you!

I can't log out iCloud because I can't turn off Keychain, Keychain stuck like this as well... any help?

me too

Thank you for that informaction it has worked perfectly well. All is set up as it should be and is working perfect now. Once again Many Thanks. Phil XX

Thanks, you have saved me hours of annoyance, worked for me too 🙂

It also worked for me. Huge thanks.

This worked for me

Deleting the random directory in ~/Library/Keychains, and rebooting worked perfectly.

Thank you, mate, don't know what I would do without you, have spent literally like couple weeks trying to figure this issue out between iOS 9 beta and El Capitan beta, seems like only your solution helped. Thanks a lot!