ICloud Account Keeps Asking for Password in System Preferences
I am extremely frustrated with iCloud. I'm on Lion 10.7.3.
Two main issues:
System Preferences, iCal, and Contacts keeps asking for my iCloud account password over and over again. It will not retain the password whne I type it in. I know the password is correct because when I type it in everytime the services update and retain the password until I log out and log back in.
I tried to delete the iCloud account and set it up again to see if that would fix the issue, but I cannot delete the account. In System Preferences I have tried to delete the account using the minus sybmol at the bottom and have tried the "Sign Out" method. The account disappears until I restart System Preferences. I tried deleting the account and rebooting, but it is still there.
Any ideas? I would love to know if there is a way to override all this in Terminal.
Your iCloud password is incorrect?
Are you using third party apps?
Try the suggestion un this article.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6186
Best.
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