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"Your iCloud account settings are out-of-date" notification keeps popping up on my Windows 10 PC.

The Windows 10 notification: "Your iCloud account settings are out-of-date." keeps popping up.

When I click on the notification my email pops up and I "fix" it by signing in. That does not end the notification.

I open Apple update and it tells me that all is updated.

How do I stop the windows 10 notification that my iCloud account settings are out-of-date ?

null-OTHER, Windows 10, Dell PC with pre-installed Windows

Posted on Mar 28, 2016 12:47 PM

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Jun 22, 2017 8:13 AM in response to jchavez5484

I have just wasted a good half hour on a spectacularly badly designed system. My only Apple product is my iPad. This has encouraged me to continue the process of migrating to non-Apple products. You know, the kind that are designed to meet my needs, not those of Apple's engineers. This is an unbelievably bad system.

Jun 22, 2017 12:58 PM in response to Mike_H025

The app specific password option should be in the Security section of the Manage Apple ID page, after you have logged in and entered the two-factor authentication code which was sent to one of your Apple devices when you logged in. Your Windows 10 PC should be listed under the Devices you are logged in to section. If all of these are in place, I'm not sure why you aren't getting the option to assign an app specific password.

Jul 3, 2017 3:14 PM in response to jcolom

Hooray It worked!

Specifically... Log into your Apple ID from your Iphone or IPAD. Turn on Two Factor Authentication, and send out a Verification Code (6 Digits). Log into Icloud on your Windows Device. Enter the Verification Code given. Then go to manage Apple ID (on your Windows Device) and enter your verification code. Now go to Manage ID in ICloud and you will now see "generate app-specific password". You will get a password which you will then go to your ICloud account on your Windows Settings and enter that password. Whew too complicated and I'm supposed to be a techy!

Jul 4, 2017 11:17 AM in response to Aquarian62

My recollection is that in the process of establishing two factor authentication, Apple will send a numeric code to your Apple device. You need to enter that code into your device in order to finalize the authentication process.


After that, go to iCloud and get your app-specific password, which needs to be then entered into Windows.


Convoluted enough? 😕

Jul 6, 2017 7:04 PM in response to dachay2tnr

The issue, I think, that most people are having is the fact that we are being forced to turn on 2-factor authentication to resolve this.


Not really.


You have made a choice to use a secure Apple service with a 3rd party app that Apple has not developed. In order to maintain Apple's high level of security, to do this now, you need an app specific password which can be generated by enabling either Apple's 2 Factor Authentication or the older 2 Step Verification.

Jul 7, 2017 5:15 AM in response to LACAllen

Not really.


You have made a choice to use a secure Apple service with a 3rd party app that Apple has not developed. In order to maintain Apple's high level of security, to do this now, you need an app specific password which can be generated by enabling either Apple's 2 Factor Authentication or the older 2 Step Verification.

Except I made that choice two YEARS ago, and it was only two WEEKS ago that this was required.


And the 3rd party app was developed by this fly-by-night company called Microsoft. Typical Apple high and mighty BS. If I want to be unsafe, give ME that choice. Don't make it for me.

Jul 8, 2017 3:03 AM in response to dachay2tnr

And bread used to be 5 cents a loaf.


Things have changed in the last 2 years. You are now making a new choice then.


You have a choice. Forward your icloud mail to an address you don't need 2FA or 2SV for.


Access your mail at icloud.com


There are options, even unwanted ones. It is inevitable that all online services will require some form of 2 step protection by defailt.

Jul 29, 2017 5:26 AM in response to ImagineWizard

Ok I’m having the same issue. And I was always able to retrieve my iCloud mail for 2 years using this computer from Win 8 to 10. My mail just stopped working last month July. I have a regular account that’s not Two Factor Authentication. Why can’t I sign in now? Or is it forcing me to setup Two Factor on the account? I don’t want to use that feature if that’s the case and it’s not fair iif I’m being forced to add it.

Aug 6, 2017 5:26 PM in response to imagine.pt

This option is only available if two-factor authentication is enabled successfully. I've just run into the issue where I'm put in a waiting period to enable it due to having to reset my security questions... and there's no way around it. My phone contacts are gone because of trying to troubleshoot this issue. I removed the account from my phone, hoping that it was just a bug and re-adding it would fix the issue... it did not. I didn't have two-factor auth enabled prior to this... and I don't remember being warned by Apple that this "security feature" was being rolled out. Pretty ****** off right now that I can't get my contacts back for 72 hours, and frankly based on this situation I've decided not to buy an iPhone ever.

Aug 15, 2017 6:07 PM in response to LACAllen

Ha! Reading all the way through this thread has been hilarious -- but I appreciate your suggestion that folks just get to their mail via icloud.com or by forwarding it to another account. I'm gonna do one or the other -- although disappointing not to be able to sync calendars/contacts -- because 2SV (or was it 2FA?) really messed with me a few months back on my iPhone and I DO NOT want to go through that again! I might decide later to go the other route, but I'm having enough trouble with my new Windows 10 laptop, I can't possibly deal with new Apple troubles!


So thanks, LACAllen, for the explanations -- and for your perseverance through this thread, which is quite remarkable .... 😀

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