How do I approve my phone on another device signed into iCloud?

What a wasted product. there is a cyclic dependency issue - can't believe looks like bunch of college kids wrote this program without any testing or quality assurance tests. Horrible -

All devices shows Approve this iphone - browser doesnt allow any option. The other stupidity is assumption that a person has one more device - wow - know what assume stands for - "*** of you and me" and I feel like this now.

3computers,this phone my airline tablet not suppose to be a phone and 7 mo. Later . I’ve been robbed of every ID possible .I know it’s not possible. But when you no longer have privileges or administrative rights to phones or computers you own files and documents you can’t acsess. A ICCID that’s a country code of the Netherlands. A company you’ve worked for 34years that your 401k poof dissapears b/c your I’d has been lifted. Your life turns into a nightmare but it isn’t possibly it can’t happen you must be crazy. Remember me. It happens everyday. These people can erase you take your life and you are the ones others will laugh at, I love it everyday

I had the same problem of approving a new device but no message or way to approve it on my other devices (pc's). I succeeded by resetting the 'keychain' apple uses to encrypt data links to icloud. Click the 'can't approve' link at the bottom of the window and choose to reset the keychain. Wait, wait & more wait until apple does it's thing behind the emerald curtain. Then magically the wizard makes it happen & all is right with the world again. :-)

So this issue have been here for more than a year if not more, I so feel for all of you have been so frustrated by this as I was too, I have been staring at the phone and computer for more than 8 hours. By LUCK, I was able to "approve this iPhone from other device". Here is what happened during this process: I did not see "approve" button anywhere for three hours, tried to log in to iCloud as it asked, as you all said/knew by now, there is no "approve" button anywhere while you are in iCloud. Absolutely FRUSTRATING. As OCD as I am , I just can't stop trying again again and again. after many times, I have no idea how the approve screen popped up on my other device(another phone that is signed in to the same appple ID) like one of the guys here said ( suggest to go to do something else for a little while and come back) and maybe it would happen. After the approve window popped up on my screen on my old phone, I typed in the apple ID password and clicked " Approve", guess what happened? NOTHING HAPPENED! here I'm again trying type in the password, and clicked "back" arrow on the new phone I was trying to set up - the one stuck on the " Approve this iPhone from other device" , so it would start the "setting up apple ID" process over. I tried about 7 or 8 times ( after I input the password , nothing happened). Then I saw my old phone is in an older version since I haven't been using it for a while, I decided to update the phone, hope it would help. And it probably did, because on my first try after updating the old phone, the "approve" window popped up again, it worked.

I'm so sorry this have to be the way we resolve this. Really- Apple? !!

I hope I explained myself clearly. it's 4:20Am here, after 8 hours trying, I may not be in a clear mind to describe all this :)

Reviews have helped me so many times before, so I decide to write one in hopes to help somebody, at lease you know many people had trouble with this issue.

You sound just like me. Frustration and questions. Why should anything with an apple be this confusing, time consuming, and difficult. I’m like you, however, after leaving it open for a long while, the message did pop up and I was able to log in. Glad you had success too, though I never understood what I did any different than I had previously when I couldn’t log in.

you are absolutely right about “ what I did different than I had previously when I couldn’t log in” . That’s why I said “by luck” because I don’t know either, besides the only thing I can think of is might helped is I did the software update right before it finally went through.

maybe Apple is like a person , have his own temper and when he is not happy , he just won’t let you go through 😄.

I have this problem. I've signed into iCloud and my iPhone is "waiting for approval"

Where in iCloud do i approve my iPhone? I can see my iPhone on iCloud, but can't figure out how to actually approve the iPhone.

This has been going on since i received a HomePod for xmas.... haven't yet been able to connect my iPhone to it and actually use the thing!!!

Can someone please help?

if more than a minute goes by and your phone is still spinning its wheels waiting for the apple gods to approve it, give up and move on to next phase: on your iphone click on can't approve iphone at bottom of spinning wheel screen. say yes.and yes and yes and yes... and in less than 30 seconds apple will have fixed everything for you from that magical icloud in the sky or the flying saucer in cupertino. And at a distance of at least 6 feet.

Tell me about it. My Iphone has been stuck in this process for a while and I have tried everything. It is especially frustrating because I continue to get the notification that I need to complete the task. I hope i don't have to schedule an appointment to Apple to get this fixed. UGH, I miss my samsung

I did this exactly. Entered the code on my laptop. clicked allow. YET my phone is still sitting there with "Waiting for approval..." spinning. This is exactly what EVERYONE here is describing! Why can't you people give us an ANSWER???

my iPhone 7 pulse is asking my several times to approve it , i follow the instructions but it takes me to this ( go to one of your other devices signed in to i Cloud to approve this iPhone) & other thing :waiting to for approval

this two messages looked in my screen for long time ?

what can i do for that ?

Dear Admin.

I try to approve my iphone.

my iphone told me to got one of my other devices signed to iCloud to approve my iphone.

and it shew " waiting for approval.

What's next?

I try to go to log in in website. I don't know how to begin.

Please help me.

Puenkon

Thank you.

Having same issue as all of the above users. Spent 87 minutes on phone with Apple Support today. They do not know how to fix this. You replied that one should click "Can't approve this iPhone?" - to "reset protected data" - If this is done, and all of the saved passwords are deleted from the phone, will they be available in the cloud for restoring? If yes, how does one restore all of the passwords? Thank You

there is no selection for " I approve this iPhone"

I have the same issue!!! This is absolutely annoying! After hours on the phone with Apple, they still can't figure it out!!!!