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

this has helped me. I forgot I had set the date and time and forgot to set it back

Check date and time

This was it!!!!

OP:

The Time and Date settings need to be updated back to current.

mine is still doing it

I had the same problem on my son's iPad mini. I rebooted the iPad, then went in as other posters suggested to settings and reset my settings. It worked and I was able to get into the App Store and iCloud.

ALSO--I use Amazon Cloud Drive. I was uploading files on my desktop computer to Amazon Cloud Drive. I don't know for sure, but maybe this was conflicting with signing into Apple's iCloud and app store in my son's iPad Mini. Not sure because I'm not an technical expert. But just to make sure, I logged off the Amazon Cloud Drive before rebooting my son's iPad and resetting the settings.

This helped me. I assume what you meant by "log off the wifi", is to forget the network.

Here's the steps I took, hope it helps someone later:

Go to Settings > Wi-Fi

• Tap on the current network
• Tap Forget This Network
• Reconnect to the same network, enter the password, etc

Seemed to work for me. Magic?

That just ***** that such a simple change could disconnect you from Apple iTunes Store, but it fixed my son's iPod. THANKS!

GOD BLESS YOU. YOURE THE ONLY ONE THAT WAS ACTUALLY USEFUL COMPARED TO EVERYONE AFTER 24 HOURS OF SEARCHING FOR A SOLUTION

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! I was FINALLY able to log on with my apple ID...thank you!!! 🙂

This did not work for me, I continue to receive the Verification Failed: There was an error connecting to iCloud 😟

Thank you for this: I don't know if it was coincidence or not, but doing this step actually solved the problem for me...and this was after a half hour of prowling the web and then 45 minutes on the phone with Apple support person who did NOT know what he was doing and was reading instruction manuals over the phone to me. I have to say, this is one reason I long ago gave up on buying apple care. I've purchased a macbook pro recently, along with an ipad pro and just got an apple watch and none with purchased extra apple care....waaay too many calls to apple support where the people knew less about the devices than I do. Thank you for posting this and glad it solved it for me.

My son's iPod touch kept requiring to be activated EVERY TIME it came on and each time I tried to activate it I kept getting the could not reach Apple Server error message. It worked a few times when I would connect it to iTunes using my computer, but that eventually stopped working. So literally EVERY TIME my son wanted to use his iPod I went through **** trying to figure out why it wouldn't work. WELL..... After reading everyone's responses I was able to figure out that it was a combination of things:

He had changed the date and time - so I corrected it (Apparently it's a "cheat" that allows you to get more money or extra lives in some games. SMH I used it as an opportunity to show him that cheating at things just causes more problems in the long run!)

I reset his Apple password

I turned off his ipod

When I turned it back on I was able to complete the activation process and enter the new password and, knock on wood.....ALL IS WORKING so far!

SO....THANK YOU TO EVERYONE!!!!

I found that restoring all settings worked for me, followed by restarting the device. First you could try restarting network settings if you did not want to do a full restart.