Cannot verify icloud

iTunes on my MAC is 10.5. I got my 4s (also iOS5) and during activation signed up for iCloud. iCloud then says I must go to my email and verify the account. But there is no mail from apple about verifying my iCloud account. Now every time I access Settings-iCloud, it displays 'Verifying..." then displays "Account not verfied. Check Email." I press the check email button, it swaps to my email account and still no mail from Apple. This just goes round and round. I tried Deleting the iCloud account, then re-activating by entering my iTune credentials but end up in the same non-productive loop. I saw a post mentioning something about multiple Apple IDs which I have from an old iPod, but I never use that other ID for anything. I asked about consolidating those IDs once but Support said 'Sorry, not possible'. Would love to try iCloud but so far no luck. Any advice is much appreciated.
Just went to My Apple Id to manage my account. I pressed the Verify Account link and nothing happened. Screen flashed and 5 minutes later still no email in the email account registered with Apple. <sigh>
Nothing in my SPQM folder either.

I'm having the exact problem, won't verify and no emails

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I cannot use Icloud on my iphone 5. Allways asking to verify...then ask me for password (apple id)...my password has been changed a little while ago. The phone does not accept the correct password. Maybe there is another password that I put in when I was setting up? I cannot delete icloud account. there is no such function in my icloud account? pleasehelp ...using IOS 8.02 now

Hi dewaldfrompretoria,
If you are being prompted for an older Apple ID/iCloud password, you may find the steps outlined in the following article helpful:
If you're asked for the password to your previous Apple ID when signing out of iCloud
Regards,
- Brenden

TS4036 Cannot verify iCloud email address....

How do I change the email account information for iCloud? My original email account has been deactivated due to lack of use and therefore cannot be verified when prompted by iCloud. I'm trying to restore my iPhone with all of my stuff.

Go to https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/ to manage your iCloud Apple ID, then click Edit next to the primary email address and change it.

I have wrong email entered so cannot verify icloud account

HI All
i just upgraded from an ipad two to an iPad Air. I decided to give my old ipad to my friend who has been in hospital with a broken back for 6 months to help her have some contact with the outside world.
i backed up everything on my old ipad to icloud and then transferred it over to my new machine. However, in the process somewhere my friend's email address became the verifying address for my icloud account. As I cannot log in to my friend's email acc not having her password and so on, my icloud account remains unverified and the box asking me to sign in to icloud keeps popping up not only on my ipad but iphone, asking for acc verification. It's also an old itunes ID that's coMing up. If I delete the acc apparently I lose everything I stored on icloud.
can anyone suggest how I can change the verifying email address to mine and update to my new ID? Thanks guys and ladies!!
Shirley

The verification address should be the primary email address associated with your ID (and it is also normally the same as the name of your ID). This explains how to change the primary email address for your ID: Change your Apple ID. After changing it to the correct address, click the Verify Now link next to the address and the verification email should then be sent to the correct address.

I cannot verify iCloud, it asks me to check my email but when I do there's nothing in there

When I try and activate my iCloud on my iPhone 4, first of all it said I was using an incorrect password and now I've overcome that hurdle it's asking me to check my e-mail and when I do there's no e-mail or anything there?!?!? Is anyone else having the same problem? Many Thanks.

You are positive you are using the same Apple ID and password you are trying to activate iCloud with?
If so, try "resetting" your Apple ID password > Apple - My Apple ID
Then restart your iPhone. Hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button down until the red slider appears. Slide your finger across the slider to turn off iPhone. To turn iPhone back on, press and hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Then try setting up iCloud > Learn how to set up iCloud on all your devices.

I just got new ipad 2. When I try to verify icloud, it asks me to check email, but that doesn't work.

I have a new ipad2, and cannot verify icloud. i don't know if it has a wrong account name, or some setting is wrong.

You are not using iTunes Match are you? If you are, you have to turn it off on the device before you sync with iTunes but I'm not sure how that impacts manually managing music in iTunes. I would also assume that if you use Match, the songs would download from the cloud by using Match on the device.
iTunes Match on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Support - Apple
This is sort of a long shot, but it's easy to try and won't hurt anything. Close all the apps on the iPad in the recents tray and reboot the iPad, then try again. I saw this work for someone else a while back that couldn't download or sync music, but I think it was probably just a coincidence, but as I said, it will not hurt to try.
Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Double tap the home button and the recents tray will appear with all of your recent apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner of the app that you want to close. Tap the home button or anywhere above the task bar.
Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.

TS3988 Verifying iCloud

I cannot verify icloud on my iphone as I do not receive the verification email, neither do I have the Resend Verification Email button on my iCloud Preferences pane. What else can I do?

After struggeling for hours understood that the email address must end with @icloud.com.
You need to go under icloud to add account and then choose iCloud>Accept free ID>fill your birthday date>continue till you create an account that must end with the suffix.iCloud.
Apple Application team did a very poor job here .every thing looks staning except this.

HT1766 When I setup my new iPhone 5c I inadvertently entered wrong email address for apple id. I cannot verify the email sent. I have a new apple id, but can neither use nor delete the iCloud account. How do I get an iCloud account for this phone?

When I set up my new iPhone 5c I inadvertently used wrong email for setting up my apple id. I have since setup an id with correct email, but cannot verify the first account. I cannot delete it either. How can I get an iCloud account for this phone?

You said "have since setup an id with correct email, but cannot verify the first account. I cannot delete it either. ".
Why can't you verify it?
Do you not receive the verification email address?
If problem contact iTunes by:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/

Apple ID / iCloud - Cannot verify email address , maybe used in a different account?

Hi all!
Until last week I was having a Family Account on MobileMe.
Now that I have transferred all sub accounts to iCloud I moved the main account, too.
All sub accounts are working fine and the can use all services like Find my Friends.
Now after having moved the main account all worked fine for that account except one service.
When trying to use the Find my friends I get a message
"Cannot connect to Find my Friends - Verify your Apple ID at https://appleid.apple.com to use Find my Friends"
When opening that URL on my mac and going to "Manage your account" and then clicikng on "Verify now"
"A verification email has been sent"
Doing the same from the dialogue on my iPhone I get "Email address is already verified for another Apple ID"
Having worked though a lot of discussions here I think the issue is with an old apple id that I might forgot about having my new one as an alternative address verified.
The problem is now that I don't have access to this old account , so I cannot remove it.
I should mention that I did not get a single mail for verification send to that address , even though having asked for it on my mac now several times.
What I tried so far
- Connected to all apple id accounts I have access to and assured that the eMail is not used and verifed there.
- Tried the "Verify now" several times
- Supplied a different alternative address to that account and succesfully veriefied it. Still I cannot verify the primary one and cannot use Find my Friends
- Updated the password to meet new complexity rules, it does now include lower,capital letters, numbers and is at least a characters long
That leaves me know with two questions:
1 - How can it be, that opening the same page and doing the same thing, results in two different messages on my Mac and my iPhone?
2 - How can I arrange, that from this old account the alternative address is removed so that I can verify it agains the new one?
Many thanks in advance for any ideas!
Note: This account is my main private eMail so dumping it and creatign a new iCloud account is not an option.

I had a similar problem. I had to call Apple support via phone and ask what apple ids my email was associated with. He was able to give me the email server it was associated with (ex: yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc) and that sparked off the memory I needed to recall that ancient and unused apple id. Then I had to recover the password, log in to that old id and change the primary email address.
As for no verification email sent, there is a major lag between changing your settings and them actually changing in Apple's system. I don't know why this is. I couldn't delete a secondary email no matter what I tried. Then 4 hours later, it finally let me do it.
hope this helped a litte, good luck!

"Cannot verify server identity" iPhone 4S on home wifi. I get this message on mail, safari, iCloud...

For the past few days every time my iPhone needs to load something, it will take a ridiculously long time to load if it loads at all. This includes loading email, iCloud settings, iTunes, safari pages, even apps that need an Internet connection. Starting this morning I get these errors. I get this error when I check my mail, try to surf on Safari, check my iCloud settings or open my Facebook app. When I open iTunes I get this message: "The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be 'itunes.apple.com' which could put your confidential information at risk."
I have tried shutting down my phone and turning it back on. I have also tried resetting all network settings.
I have switched to 3G and get the same above message from iTunes.
The 'cannot verify...' message has disappeared though. Multiple pages in Safari load just fine. I open Mail and get this message: 'cannot load mail, connection to the server failed.' My Facebook app will load and load and will finally fail to update content. iCloud will not connect and show another 'verification failed' message.
My iPhone wouldn't even let me use this site to submit the question. So I am using my iPad 2 running iOS 6.1.3 and everything is just fine. Everything that is not working on my phone is working on the iPad just fine.
(an additional note: I have a reminder with geo-fence set a mile away from my current location and it will periodically go off even though my location hasn't moved in hours... Do not know if this is related or not but it started happening at the same time)

I am having the same problem: I am getting several times a day on my iPad (3rd generation) and my iPhone 4S the messages:
Cannot Verify Server Identity
The identity of "webdav.facebook.com" cannot be verified by Facebook.
Review the certificate details to continue.
Every time, I choose cancel.
I don't know, what triggers this message (I am not actively using Facebook or any app that would try to access Facebook at the time when this failure messages happen.
I am using the newest iOS version (8.1.3).
I am living in China.
I don't get the error messages when I am connected via a VPN.
So far that I remember - the problems started somewhere at the beginning of 2015.
The 'Not Trusted' Certificates are usually never the same. I did had - among others -:
*.littletonpublicschools.net.
lds140.securednshost.com
auvisa.com
langel.jp
www.colesfinancialservices.com.au
*wpengine.com and even
localhost
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I cannot verify my icloud account

I have the screen to verify my icloud account. However, I am not receiving emails to verify it and therefore cannot use icloud. Does anybody know how I can fix this problem???

I actually do have another former email account that is still attached to icloud. It's really weird, because the email I use to sign in to icloud is not the email that they tell me to check to verify my account. I still have access to both accounts and haven't received an email on either account.

TS4006 Am trying to switch on "find my iphone" icon but cannot verify my icloud account. Tells me to see email but nothing comes thru with any instructions.

Am trying to switch on "find my iphone" icon but cannot verify my icloud account. Tells me to see email but nothing comes thru with any instructions.
Any help much appreciated as phone assistence unavailable today.

Hello Asokwah,
Sign out from your pple Id on your Device and Go to https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/ and then Sign In with your Apple Id here and Under your Primary Email Address click on Resend Next to Verification Email Sent. Now Go to your Email Account and Verify your Apple Id again by clicking in the Link inside the Mail that you might have received from Apple. Now Sign In on your Device and try to make a Purchase and if it is for the first time then you will be asked to Review your Account and if you have entered your Credit/Debit card in your Account then you will have to just Enter your 3 Digits CVV Number and then click on Done. And then you can try downloading any Application from AppStore or Music from iTunes Store and check if its working.

2 apple IDs / Cannot verify my icloud account or My apple ID

I have two apple IDs with two different email addresses. *****@yahoo.com and ************@gmail.com
I can sign into my Apple ID associated with the Yahoo address but not the gmail address. It will send a password reset but It will not send a verification email to this address.
Verify your email address.
A verification email was previously sent to [email protected]. We can resend the verification email to the same address, or if this address is incorrect you can change your Apple ID and email address.
Every time I try to sign into icloud on my macbook I get an error message that my icloud account has not been verified and that an email has been sent to my gmail account to verify it. I never get this email. No matter how many times I resend it. This is linked to my Gmail account which I cannot verify.
It is not in junk in my gmail account
it is not being sent to my yahoo account.
I've seen this thread and tried "sorting out my ID's - Re: Not getting iCloud verification email
I don't seem to be able to do this. It just tells me to choose which email address I have used most recently and then asks me to select one.
If I try to add my gmail account as an alternate email to my yahoo account it says its already linked to another Apple ID
I've checked these If you didn't receive your Apple ID verification or reset emailI've tried checking my Apple ID
Make sure that the email address is correct in your Apple ID account
If you're verifying an Apple ID email address, take these steps:
Go to My Apple ID (appleid.apple.com).
Select “Manage your Apple ID” and sign in.
If the email address listed in your account is incorrect, edit the address as needed. Apple will send another
verification email to the corrected address.
I do this ------> I get this message.
Verify your email address.
Your Apple ID has been created. Before you can use it, we need to make sure that [email protected] belongs to you.
Check your email and look for a verification email from Apple. Click on the Verify Now link and sign in with your new Apple ID and password.
I never get a verification email.
You cannot merge two apple ID's
So my question is How do I verify my icloud and Apple ID account if I cannot receive a verification email?

So For everyone that is having the issue of iCloud asking for an old email there is a very simple fix, as long as its a simple switch from one email to another on one apple ID account.
1. Sign into appleid.apple.com with your current ID.
2. Edit the primary email to the one requested. (You DO NOT need to verify the old email.)
3. Sign out of iCloud on any device using the old ID.
4. Edit the primary email (on appleid.apple.com) back to the desired email address.
5. Verify that email address.
6. Sign into iCloud with the correct email.
As for anyone that is unable to verify their account due to not receiving the verification email, contact apple support for further assistance.

I synched up an incorrect email with icloud, now i cannot verify the email address. is there a way to go about correcting this?

Title sums it up, i wanted to log into icloud to change setting around, but i forgot my password (stupid of me). Now i cannot verify or do anything with my icoud account. help?

Hi rabeah,
If you are having issues resetting the password for the Apple ID associated with your iCloud account, you may find the following article helpful:
Apple ID: If you forget your password
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5787
Regards,
- Brenden

Cannot access icloud, cannot verify account

With my current apple activie and able to log in to itunes and other apple website, I cannot access icloud with error message "check your email xxx for instructions on how to verify your account. But checking email, no email was sent.

Hey Edgew7,
Thanks for the question. The following resource may provide a solution:
iOS 7: If you're asked for the password to your previous Apple ID when signing out of iCloud
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5223
3. Change your Apple ID temporarily
If signing out and back in to iMessage or FaceTime didn't work, try these steps:
1. Change your Apple ID to the Apple ID you used previously. You shouldn't need to verify the email address.
2. Tap Settings > iCloud and try to sign out.
3. Change your Apple ID to the new email address that you want to use. You'll need to verify the email address.
4. Tap Settings > iCloud and sign in with the new Apple ID.
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