iCloud and internet accounts broken

For the better part of a year my contacts and continuity features that use iCloud have been broken.

Under my settings in iCloud my account doesn't show that I'm signed in. It asks to sign in and after I do, it says " **iCloud account** is already signed in to iCloud. To use this Apple ID as your primary iCloud account, delete it from Internet Accounts and sign in again."

After going to my internet account under setting none of my email accounts or iCloud accounts show up and I'm asked to sign set up my accounts. If I set it up I always get " Already signed in as **iCloud account**. This iCloud account already exists. "

I'm not too sure what to do to get all my internet accounts to work again.

Currently using a 13" MacBook Pro from 2013 on MacOS 10.14

Any way I can get my setting back to normal?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), macOS Mojave (10.14)

Posted on Oct 9, 2018 5:53 PM

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juanfromtaneytown

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9 points

Posted on Nov 6, 2018 9:58 PM

So I have no idea why this is happening but my wife had the same issue on her MacBook Air and contacted Apple to to figure out how to do fix it. She directed the tech to this thread and after a couple of failed attempts, this was the solution that worked with no additional issues:

Open Terminal
Type defaults delete MobileMeAccounts
Press enter
Log into iCloud thru Internet Accounts in settings. The already signed in message should be gone once you sign in.
Go to iCloud thru Settings. Now it should show your Apple ID on the top
Type your password. It should work now.
Check all the boxes again.
Done

Hopefully this works for you as well. At least the Apple tech knows there are other people with the same issue.

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Jan 13, 2019 12:10 PM in response to Charlie..

This worked for me.

BS1996

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4 points

Jan 16, 2019 4:58 PM in response to daniel.zuniga

Worked for me too. Very frustrating bug.

Berumenx

Level 1

4 points

Feb 27, 2019 4:41 PM in response to juanfromtaneytown

Thank You SO much this helped

Mar 21, 2019 3:18 PM in response to maksym255

I had the same outcome! It removed the pop up message but I still cannot log in. Did you ever resolve the main issue?

Mar 23, 2019 12:29 PM in response to XarisBaker

AH! This worked for me too! Thank you so much for sharing!!

Mar 27, 2019 8:12 AM in response to XarisBaker

you've saved my life!

jergonda

Level 1

4 points

Mar 27, 2019 6:39 PM in response to jergonda

Fixed!!! The "Eureka! We've found a solution!" post solved my problem. Thank you so much for figuring it out for us and posting it here!

Dec 1, 2018 3:46 AM in response to daniel.zuniga

I have the same problem. "defaults delete MobileMeAccounts" command removed the 'is already signed in to iCloud. To use this Apple ID as your primary iCloud account, delete it from Internet Accounts and sign in again' message but didn't resolve the main problem. Now, when I'm trying to Log into my iCloud account - there is no any message at all and I'm not logged in.

I've tried to restart, but it didn't help as well.

Dec 4, 2018 6:26 PM in response to maksym255

The only work around I've managed to see is to set up a new user all together but not the best solution I think

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