Finish Changing your iCloud Password Prompt / Nag Screen

Around every other day, I receive the prompt to "Finish changing your password":

Your password also protects access to data stored in iCloud. To Finish changing...

I believe the prompt started when I changed my login password to El Capitan, which is not the same password as my iCloud / AppleID password. I have tried to change my iCloud password to get rid of the box but nothing makes it go away, it pops up every few days and continues to pop up now that I upgraded to Sierra.

I'm logged in fine to iCloud and my computer. I don't have any issues with either password, they both work fine.

How in the world do I get this box from nagging me every day? Is there a plist file or some preference I need to delete to make it stop bugging me?

Posted on Oct 31, 2016 8:37 AM

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Andy Hilton

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Posted on Dec 11, 2017 5:19 AM

@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

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Mar 18, 2017 9:22 AM in response to plochner

Just did all that

Will report back in a couple days

Mar 21, 2017 1:11 PM in response to plochner

All this time and still no answer. Seriously Sad.

Mar 21, 2017 4:59 PM in response to MartyDawson

^ What that guy said

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Finish Changing your iCloud Password Prompt / Nag Screen