Finish Changing your iCloud Password Prompt / Nag Screen

Just restarted

Confirmed, the above solution

rm -rf /Users/username/Library/Preferences/MobileMeAccounts.plist;rm -rf /Users/username/Library/Application\ Support/iCloud/*;rm -rf /Users/username/Library/Caches/*

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Finish Changing your Password in iCloud Prefs

this worked for me...

OK I figured it out. On the mac the problem happens when you change iCloud settings and it asks for user permission password - not iCloud password. this had gotten messed up then stuck.

Quick thing to try: you can probably just try to change the iCloud settings again - then it might ask you for your user pass - and problem solved? - but i didn't do that.

I did the more laborious task of logging out and then back in to iCloud - and it DID ask for my user pass - which I entered - and that fixed the issue!

Hope this helps the next person!

Bump. I have the same issue after changing my MacBook login. I actually followed through the first time on the iCloud password update to a new password (it seemed like good a time as any to do a routine password change for iCloud and I made it completely separate from the MacBook password that I had just changed) and it stopped the notification on the MacBook. But I then had issues with each one of my other iOS devices having to sign out of iCloud and then signing back in to ensure Continuity worked across all devices (text messages, handoff, etc. wasn't working after doing the iCloud password change). This was a huge task just to change a password.

This has to be a bug. Anybody at Apple have any comments (or better yet a solution) to this?

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Move the following to the Trash and restart.

Close all running apps. Put the following items in the trash:

1) In the ~/Library/ folder, put the Caches folder in the trash.

2) In the ~/Library/Application Support/ folder, put the folder iCloud in the trash.

3) In the ~/Library/Preferences/ folder, put the file MobileMeAccounts.plist in the trash.

Learned from Kurt Lang

I too have the same issue. Changed my password on my MacBook (which I have done a few times before with no issues). Now have same popup message asking me to 'finish changing your password'. I do not wish for my AppleID / iCloud password to be the same as my login password for my MacBook. Message is annoying!

Updated from El Capitan to Sierra and the message is still there. Has anyone managed to resolve this issue yet?

Feeling hopeful,

:-)

It's been a few months since anyone's replied to this thread. Any solutions? I've been getting the exact same prompt/nag screen since I changed my login password a couple of weeks ago. Using El Capitan 10.11.6. MacBook Pro mid-2014.

Slight twist on this. I had that "Finish changing your password" message in the iCloud System Preferences pane ever since updating to 10.12. The suggestions here and in the other thread by revDAVE to sign out and back in (which I'd tried initially) gave me the necessary clue.

My i Cloud account goes back to when it was just an @mac.com email address (which became @me.com, then @icloud.com, sigh). Note that all of those addresses are aliases for each other and for receiving email can be used interchangeably. They can all also be used to sign into iCloud.

I have always used the @mac.com version for everything. However now I finally noticed that I was signed in with the @me.com version on the problematic Mac. Should be the same but... sure enough, signing out and back in with the @mac.com version fixed it.

I started getting this message a few days ago after upgrading my iMac and MacBook Air to High Sierra. I only get it on the IMac. However, I keep getting others messages telling me a new device is trying to log into my iCloud account (just the same two computers I have had plus my iphone.)

Seriously, there is no solution for this?

The whole iCloud architecture is very confusing. Steve Jobs is turning over in his grave. Or just laughing.

Hi - this is what helped me fix this....

OK I figured it out. On the mac the problem happens when you change iCloud settings and it asks for MAC's ***user **** permission password - not iCloud password. this had gotten messed up then stuck.

Quick thing to try: you can probably just try to change the iCloud settings again - then it might ask you for your user pass - and problem solved? - but i didn't do that.

I did the more laborious task of logging out and then back in to iCloud - and it DID ask for my user pass - which I entered - and that fixed the issue!

Hope this helps the next person!

I'm on Sierra 10.12.6.

Here's what solved the issue for me

- Changed my AppleID password (NOT to my mac's login password)

- Signed out of my iCloud by doing System Preferences > iCloud > Sign Out, keeping a copy of all icloud content on the machine

- Signed back in using the new apple ID credentials

Sorry but no solution to offer. I started getting this problem after changing my El Capitan admin password. That password is and has never been the same as my iCloud password. I have changed my iCloud password prior to this without issue.

@NewYorkYogi - as the previous replies had mentioned, the solution appears to be that you *must* specifically log out of iCloud on your mac (go to System Preferences --> iCloud then log out), and then log back in again.....

It does seem an odd way to do it - especially given the grief you are given when trying to log out of iCloud on your mac - but that also appears the only way of overcoming this issue......

Andy

Hi Andy,

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I have to admit I find this issue confusing.

I'm guessing that you know that when I go to sign out from iCloud, I get the disturbing message that "if I I turn off iCloud Drive all documents stored on iCloud will be deleted from this Mac." That doesn't sound like fun because I have iCloud Drive, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Safari, and Find My Mac checked. When I log out and then back in what will I lose, if anything?

Charles

Hi Andy,

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I have to admit I find this issue confusing.

I'm guessing that you know that when I go to sign out from iCloud, I get the disturbing message that "if I I turn off iCloud Drive all documents stored on iCloud will be deleted from this Mac." That doesn't sound like fun because I have iCloud Drive, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Safari, and Find My Mac checked. When I log out and then back in what will I lose, if anything?

Charles