Why do I have to keep on entering my Apple ID password?
Four days ago when I got up I saw a message on my MacMini (OSX 10.11.5) from Fantastical telling me that my iCloud password was incorrect. I entered the password that I knew was correct several times, but it kept on being rejected. I gave up and cancelled the dialog.
A few minutes later I got a message from the OS telling me that the Mac could not connect to iCloud because the password was incorrect.
When I went to iCloud in System Preferences to enter the password I received a message telling me that my iCloud account was suspended and that I would have to go to iforgot.apple.com to reset the password. No information on why the account was suspended and no choice for me about continuing to use the old password.
So, no choice. I went to iforgot and reset the password.
Then the nightmare began….
I have a total of five Apple devices all of which are associated with the same AppleID, iCloud, iTunes account, etc: Two AppleTV 4s, an iPhone 6s, an iPad 3 and a 2009 MacMini.
Once I reset the password the MacMini became essentially useless because of a huge number of password requests: iCloud, iMessage, iTunes, Apple Music, Mail and on and on for well over half an hour. About the same thing happened with all the other devices. By the time I stopped counting I had entered my new password on the various devices over 50 times? Is that really necessary?
But, it didn't stop there. This continued for days with the same password being requested on various devices over and over and over again.
Four days later it's still going on. I have been using iMessage on my iPad regularly. But, this afternoon I got the message: "Sign in with your Apple ID to activate iMessage". What the heck? I activated iMessage on this iPad years ago and updated the Apple ID password last Saturday. Why again?
I was just about to order a new iPad Mini today to replace my old iPad, but I wonder now if that would be wise. Do I really want to stay invested in an infrastructure that has caused me such grief over the past four days?