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Apple ID - Update in settings

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Since upgrading to Catalina yesterday under settings -> Apple ID it displays the message:
"Some account services will not be available until you sign in again."

I can sign in and the message will disappear, however it will always come back asking me to sign in again.

Is there a solution for this?
 
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It’s no help to your situation but I’ve also got this same issue on two machines 🤦🏼‍♂️
 
Had this problem on two iMac machines also. Completely resetting the keychain resolved it for me, but this is a pain in the a**.
 
henni2016 said:
Had this problem on two iMac machines also. Completely resetting the keychain resolved it for me, but this is a pain in the a**.
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YIKES. I hate the nuclear option. I'm going to suffer the consequences for a few days and hope for a fix...
 
It keeps asking because system doesn't know how to verify for two-factor authentication from that window. I signed out completely and re-sign in and it ask for two factor code. Problem went away. This seems like a big oversight from Apple's part.
 
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Yup - logged out and back in, and when I did it prompted me for my iPad passcode and now all seems back to normal.
 
dojoman said:
It keeps asking because system doesn't know how to verify for two-factor authentication from that window. I signed out completely and re-sign in and it ask for two factor code. Problem went away. This seems like a big oversight from Apple's part.
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anthonymoody said:
Yup - logged out and back in, and when I did it prompted me for my iPad passcode and now all seems back to normal.
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hi when you logged out of Apple Icloud did you keep everything on the computer or remove everything?

thanks
 
ledzep1 said:
hi when you logged out of Apple Icloud did you keep everything on the computer or remove everything?

thanks
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I told it to remove everything because otherwise the archive takes forever. No issues finding anything when I logged back in because it's all in the (i)cloud.
 
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ledzep1 said:
hi when you logged out of Apple Icloud did you keep everything on the computer or remove everything?

thanks
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For me i chose remove everything because when I log back in I don't want duplicate contacts or calender and I know everything is in the cloud. But if you have some items that are locally stored and I'm not sure if you select remove everything option they will get deleted or not.
 
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I'll echo the statement that signing out of iCloud, restarting, then signing back in solved the problem for me.
I didn't choose to keep all my files because I didn't feel like waiting.
 
chrfr said:
I'll echo the statement that signing out of iCloud, restarting, then signing back in solved the problem for me.
I didn't choose to keep all my files because I didn't feel like waiting.
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I didn't even restart. Just logged out and back in.
 
I have the same issue I was not sure if I needed to delete everything or keep everything I guess I’ll have a delete everything and just re-download from the cloud
 
chrfr said:
I'll echo the statement that signing out of iCloud, restarting, then signing back in solved the problem for me.
I didn't choose to keep all my files because I didn't feel like waiting.
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Tried that. Now, the Apple ID in System Preferences just hangs.
 
dojoman said:
It keeps asking because system doesn't know how to verify for two-factor authentication from that window. I signed out completely and re-sign in and it ask for two factor code. Problem went away. This seems like a big oversight from Apple's part.
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Sorry for the following dumb question, but when I started logging out of iCloud, it prompted me to create a desktop folder of all sorts of things that were going to be deleted by me logging out. That scared me. Did you have to do that?

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Ooops... I didn't read the above responses. It still makes me nervous logging out and deleting everything. My desktop items are in iCloud. I don't want to lose them
 
Didn't have this issue, this was a clean install on a brand new MacBook Pro, I simply activated KeyChain first on my iPhone then activated it on my laptop and that was that.
 
Logging out and logging back in worked. However, when my desktop items, which were deleted when I logged out, showed back up on my desktop, the icon size was larger. Obviously not a problem, but odd what happens sometime.
 
markgpearse said:
Sorry for the following dumb question, but when I started logging out of iCloud, it prompted me to create a desktop folder of all sorts of things that were going to be deleted by me logging out. That scared me. Did you have to do that?

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Ooops... I didn't read the above responses. It still makes me nervous logging out and deleting everything. My desktop items are in iCloud. I don't want to lose them
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Ah so this is when you log out and you choose to keep everything on the computer it prompts to create a folder, or when you choose to delete everything?
 
ledzep1 said:
Ah so this is when you log out and you choose to keep everything on the computer it prompts to create a folder, or when you choose to delete everything?
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I logged out of iCloud. Chose not to download a copy of everything in iCloud to a special desktop folder. After I logged out, everything was deleted from my desktop and my documents folder. Everything remained in iClouds. I logged back in and was able to get everything back on my desktop and in my documents folder as it was all in iCloud. When I logged back in had to set up some iCloud related stuff. At the end of all that the AppleID went away and I no longer have the notification issue.

On a scale of 1 - 10 in terms of tech proficiency I would say I am a solid 7. I feel sorry for people who are 4 - 5s, which is probably the majority of people.
 
markgpearse said:
Sorry for the following dumb question, but when I started logging out of iCloud, it prompted me to create a desktop folder of all sorts of things that were going to be deleted by me logging out. That scared me. Did you have to do that?

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Ooops... I didn't read the above responses. It still makes me nervous logging out and deleting everything. My desktop items are in iCloud. I don't want to lose them
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Nope because I didn't choose to keep local copies. Someone explained this process earlier.
 
Same problem here: Three Macs with 2-3 user accounts (+ 1 admin account each). All upgraded from Mojave to Catalina. I use for specific reasons the same Apple ID in all accounts. Worked fine under Mojave.

After also having the problem described and reading the solutions above and elsewhere, I removed ALL Apple ID and ALL iCloud settings on ALL Macs for ALL accounts. Then I rebooted each machine and started to setup the Apple ID's for the different accounts. Looked all perfectly fine. Now - after a day or so - the message "Update Apple ID settings" keeps coming back on all accounts on all Macs. Pretty annoying.

Is there any information which services may not be available (until you sign in again)? I'm mainly using Contacts, calendar, purchases, find my Mac. So if these are not affected, I may just ignore that message for the time being. .....
 
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