Verification failed : There was an error connecting to apple id server

The answer for me was that after restoring a backup I was no longer signed into my wifi network. So it was failing to connect to the Apple ID server because it didn't have a network connection.

This is a terrifically lousy error message for that case. How about "no network connection present".

Disabling wi-fi worked for me. I had tried it at home and at my work, so it wasn't the network. Why did this work? Who knows.... I had also disabled two-factor authentication earlier. That alone did not work, the combination did, but I never tried disabling wi-fi before, so if disabling wi-fi alone doesn't work, try also disabling 2 factor authentication too. Stupid Apple ID nonsense...I hate this crap!!! Odd things like this happen all the time with it. THANKS!!!

My experience is similar, lousy error. Was simply not connected to wifi when I expected I was. Can be many reasons for not being connected but the error doesnt tell you its a physical connection issue. Make 100% certain you are connected.

I managed to work out why mine was doing this...

I worked out that as my laptop had done the whole new startup routine, the internet connection was forgotten or lost, so skip the login step even if it asks the 'are you sure' question, skip it... then connect to the internet and sign in without the annoying 'error' message

xx ellie

I know I am a little late to post on here, but I would love to help someone in the future... like me I just recently went through this problem and within hours and hours of researching; I found out the date and time were stuck to December of last year and the time was completely wrong. My phone turned automatic time off, I am guessing because I had the phone off for so long. That and I had put a new Sim Card in. So yeah its very important to make sure you have the date and time on Automatic under settings / General/ Date & Time/ Set Automatically... It saved my life lol 🙂

I had a problem that my Wifi is disabled and I couldn't turn off "Find my phone" over mobile internet.

After searching for several hours I noticed that I hadn't allowed to use Find my phone over mobile internet. After I allowed it (it is located in Settings: Mobile Data or in States it is called as Carrier), then I could finally turn Find my phone off.

And now I can restore my phone from backup.

didn't work, couldn't even sign back in

shame on apple , this is failure and we are all suffering off the very same problem what a stupid phone

My sons IPad was having the same issue. He had changed the date to get freebies from some game. when we corrected the date on the iPad, everything worked fine

Help me it doesn't work

Thank you very much , same issue and my kids changed the time and date , so stressful but got it solved

Check the date and time , my kids changed it and that's why i keep getting a fail connecting to server message

Same problem. I had to turn OFF WiFi to be able to sign back in.

Going into setting

Go to General

Go to date & Time

Make sure you are in the right time zone

Turn on Set Automatically

This is how I fix my IPad pro

Thanks a lot! I will try!