Can't disable iCloud keychain on Yosemite

>SOLUTION: Close all programs and system preferences. At the top where the tool bar is on your desktop, select go and you will see a dialog box pop out with options to choose from but there is another one that is hidden called "library". While the pop up menu is present, hold down the "option" key on your keyboard and you will then see the hidden "library" option in the "go" drop down box. Select it while still pressing down the "option" key on the keyboard. A new dialog box will appear with folders in it from this library. Scroll down until you see "keychains". There will be a folder, and a single file; select the folder and drag it to the garbage can so it can later be deleted. Do not select and delete the other item which is the single file (looks like a blank page with the corner folded over) Note, it will not let you delete it now, and a pop up will tell you this. So you will have to shut down your computer by forcing it. Do this by holding down the power button on the keyboard until the computer shuts down and it will take a few moments for this to happen. Start your computer back up now, and now you will be able to empty the garbage can. Then go to system preferences, and then select iCloud there. You will now see a pop up asking you if you want to set up an iCloud account.<

This is the solution that actually worked for me. None of the others did.

I'm having a similar problem, also on 10.10.2. When I try to unselect "Keychain" in the iCloud preferences pane, I get a drop-down window that prompts me to choose between "Delete [passwords] from Mac", "Cancel", or "Keep on This Mac", but no matter which option I select, the "Keychain" box just gets rechecked right away. I don't need iCloud Keychain (or any of the other "continuity"/sync/spyware features) because I only have one device. So how do I turn it off?

Similar issue. Although when I try to uncheck the keychain preference in the iCloud pane it doesn't give me options to delete or cancel. It just re-checks the box immediately after unchecking it and generates the same four logs in Console with different numbers at the end that increase in sequential order each time I uncheck the option.

Logs:

3/10/15 8:19:40.871 PM com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice[390]: SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle!! 30

3/10/15 8:19:40.885 PM com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice[390]: SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle!! 31

3/10/15 8:19:40.885 PM com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice[390]: SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle!! 32

3/10/15 8:19:40.886 PM com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice[390]: SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle!! 33

MID 2009, MBP 17" 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo | OSX 10.10.2

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I'm also on 10.10.2 and having exactly the same issue. I want to login to iCloud with a different AppleID, and of course, I can't do it if I can't first logout of iCloud. It all seems to be about the keychain. I uncheck it. I'm asked the same questions, and no matter what I do, it rechecks itself.

Hello, I found a solution, close iCloud on all devices, and restore user permissions.
if you start secion as another user is not the problem.
I used Onyx Version 2.9.5.
I hope to see helped.

I deleted the following files and restarted the Mac. This reset the iCloud preference was reset to its default state (not signed in to anything).

• ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.icloud.fmfd.plist
• ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.icloudpairin g.plist
• ~/Library/Preferences/MobileMeAccounts.plist

You may also want to look in Keychain Access if you want to delete previously entered iCloud info/passwords.

Edit: I clicked on "@ Internet Accounts" and the iCloud account came back. Still cannot uncheck the Keychain box.

ireqai, can you be more specific?

Exactly how did you close iCloud on all devices?

How did you restore user permissions?

How did you use Onyx?

Update: I deleted about 20 preference files and any items in Keychain Access which contained my Apple Id (use the search box).

~/Library/IdentityServices

~/Library/SyncedPreferences

grep -r 'your.apple.id' ~/Library/Preferences

(delete anything that looks to be Apple related)

I then restarted, went to Internet Accounts and was finally able to delete the iCloud item. Yeay!

Here is the full of files I deleted from ~/Library. This is a bit of a hatchet job and may screw up any other internet accounts your are signed into. In my case I just wanted all personal iCloud info off my work Mac. (Sorry, I cannot edit my previous post for some reason).

~/Library/Preferences:

MobileMeAccounts.plist

com.apple.accountsd.plist

com.apple.bird.plist

com.apple.bookstoreagent.plist

com.apple.commerce.knownclients.plist

com.apple.commerce.plist

com.apple.coreservices.appleidauthenticationinfo.REDACTED-REDACTED-REDACTED.plis t

com.apple.facetime.bag.plist

com.apple.iChat.Jabber.REDACTED-REDACTED-REDACTED.plist

com.apple.iChat.SubNet.REDACTED-REDACTED-REDACTED.plist

com.apple.iTunes.plist

com.apple.icloud.fmfd.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.ess.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.madrid.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.ac.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.callhistorysync.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.activity.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.activity.public.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.auth.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.encryption.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.continuity.tethering.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.icloudpairing.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.idsremoteurlconnection.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.maps.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.multiplex1.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.phonecontinuity.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.screensharing.plist

com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.private.alloy.sms.plist

com.apple.imservice.SMS.REDACTED-REDACTED-REDACTED.plist

com.apple.imservice.ids.FaceTime.REDACTED-REDACTED-REDACTED.plist

com.apple.imservice.ids.iMessage.REDACTED-REDACTED-REDACTED.plist

com.apple.keychainaccess.plist

com.apple.xpc.activity2.plist

icbaccountsd.plist

~/Library/IdentityServices:

ids.db

ids.db-shm

ids.db-wal

~/Library/SyncedPreferences:

com.apple.Maps-com.apple.MapsSupport.bookmarks.plist

com.apple.Maps-com.apple.MapsSupport.history.plist

com.apple.Safari-com.apple.Safari.UserRequests.plist

com.apple.Safari.plist

com.apple.SafariServices.plist

com.apple.cmfsyncagent.plist

com.apple.finder.plist

com.apple.sbd.plist

com.apple.security.cloudkeychainproxy3.plist

com.apple.syncedpreferences.plist

Same issue in logs [kMMAccountLogoutFailedNotification with info (null)] with everything disabled from preferences panel except keychain.

Closed any running apps that might be accessing the keychain

Removed ~/Library/Application Support/iCloud/Accounts/*

Removed com.apple.security.KCN.plist & com.apple.security.cloudkeychainproxy3.keysToRegister from ~/Library/Preferences/

Restarted, accepted login to iCloud prompt, went into iCloud preferences.

Was then able to un-tick and sign out completely.

ModeConfusion wrote:

Same issue in logs [kMMAccountLogoutFailedNotification with info (null)] with everything disabled from preferences panel except keychain.

Closed any running apps that might be accessing the keychain

Removed ~/Library/Application Support/iCloud/Accounts/*

Removed com.apple.security.KCN.plist & com.apple.security.cloudkeychainproxy3.keysToRegister from ~/Library/Preferences/

Restarted, accepted login to iCloud prompt, went into iCloud preferences.

Was then able to un-tick and sign out completely.

Thank you, this procedure worked for me and seems to have left everything else intact.

It temporarily worked and somehow the keychain turned itself back on again. This is what I have in my Console:

SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle!! 7

SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle SOSCCThisDeviceIsInCircle!! 8

[AOSUI] : __48-[MMKeychainService _handleSecureBackupInvalid:]_block_invoke called but secure backup is still valid: TR: N RI: N

*** -[NSLock unlock]: lock (<NSLock: 0x6000002c32c0> '(null)') unlocked from thread which did not lock it

*** Break on _NSLockError() to debug.

OMG I'm about to throw out my MBP. I turned on iCloud Keychain and it has completely screwed up my systems. Not only can I not turn it off, even if I reset it on my phone it keeps coming back as soon as I launch Mail. I removed my Mail Accounts, yet all these old accounts pop back up after I reboot. How the heck do you completely delete the iCloud keychain and all related files? Where is it?

Been having trouble with this and came across this thread. I tried deleting a bunch of aforementioned files, particularly:

~/Library/Application Support/iCloud

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.icloud.fmfd.plist

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ids.service.* (theres a bunch)

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.* (theres a few...not sure if this broke anything yet)

Then restarted, and the keychain stayed alive and I couldn't sign out. What finally did it was deleting:

~/Library/Keychains/[seemingly random alphanumeric folder] which had accountStatus.plist and some stuff like keychain.db and other files

Deleting that folder then restarting finally got OS X to say the local keychain was reset and I was able to sign out of iCloud. Not sure if the rest is necessary but deleting that folder seemed to be the key for me, presumably that's the local version of the iCloud keychain that shows up in Keychain Access.

fpDoug wrote:

ModeConfusion wrote:

Same issue in logs [kMMAccountLogoutFailedNotification with info (null)] with everything disabled from preferences panel except keychain.

Closed any running apps that might be accessing the keychain

Removed ~/Library/Application Support/iCloud/Accounts/*

Removed com.apple.security.KCN.plist & com.apple.security.cloudkeychainproxy3.keysToRegister from ~/Library/Preferences/

Restarted, accepted login to iCloud prompt, went into iCloud preferences.

Was then able to un-tick and sign out completely.

Thank you, this procedure worked for me and seems to have left everything else intact.

To share another successful data point: I tried what's described above, and it didn't work for me. I then signed out of iCloud Keychain on my iPhone (per http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/179062/unable-to-sign-out-of-icloud-on- osx-yosemite-or-disable-keychain) and the Mac's checkbox turned off. I'm rebooting now to see if it sticks.