Why Icloud password prompt when it is already correct

I was told reset my password for security reason with Apple, so I went ti iforgot.apple.com and changed my password through the usual reseting your password screens on the apple website.
Since the change, everytime I refresh my emails, I am being prompted with a message from my icloud account saying "Cannot Get Mail the user name or password for "icloud" is incorrect" But the truth is the details in my settings are correct and I have put the new password in along with the correct appleid which I haven't had to change anyway because it was only the password I have to update, I have even tried this with my old password just in case these my apple id account is not in sync with my icloud account.
I am forever being prompted and would like some assistance as to how I can resolve this, for the time being I have disabled icloud mail to avoid getting this annoying prompt.
Please help.

Thanks, but that was one of the first things I did, I deleted the account on my iphone and then added the account back after.
Thanks for the suggestion though.

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I have a password problem. After importing data and settings from one MacBook Pro to a new one, I have to put my iCloud password in when re-starting, but the password from the old computer in when waking the computer from sleep.

I have a password problem. After importing data and settings from one MacBook Pro to a new one, I have to put my iCloud password in when re-starting the new computer, but the password from the old computer in when waking the computer from sleep. I want to use my iCloud password on both computers consistently. How can I fix this?

The only other place to change a password for the computer login is in Users & Groups preferences. But I don't really know enough here to fix your problem. You can try fixing the keychain:
iCloud- Frequently asked questions about iCloud Keychain
Tutorial: Resolving Keychain Issues
If you can't access your keychain, or forget your password If you can't get into your keychain file because you've forgotten your password or the keychain file appears to be corrupt, there are a couple of options.
First, if you've forgotten your password, you can use the "Keychain First Aid" utility to make the keychain password the same as the login password. This can be accomplished via the following process:
1. Open Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities)
2. Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Preferences"
3. Click the "First Aid" tab
4. Make sure the "Synchronize login keychain password" box is checked
5. Close the Preferences window
6. Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Keychain First Aid"
7. Enter your username and password
8. Click the "Repair" button
The second option is to completely delete your keychain then recreate it. This routine is useful if your keychain appears to be corrupt or otherwise inaccessible. This can be accomplished as follows:
1. Launch Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities)
2. Click "Show Keychains" in the lower-left corner of the window.
3. Select the problematic keychain from the left-hand pane.
4. Navigate to the "File" menu and select "Delete Keychain '(name of keychain)'"
5. Check all options for deletion and press "OK"
6. Create a new keychain by going to the "File" menu, then "New" and selecting
"New Keychain"
7. You can now make this keychain your default if you desire by selecting it, then
going to the "File" menu and selecting "Make '(name of keychain)' Default"
Login as root and perform repair In some cases, problems with keychains can only be resolved when logged in as the root user.
First, you want to enable the root user:
1. OS X Mountain Lion: Enable and disable the root user
2. OS X Lion: Enable and disable the root user
3. Mac OS X 10.6: Enabling the root user
4. Enabling and using the "root" user in Mac OS X
After enabling the root user, and logging in under this account, again open Keychain Access. First attempt repairs using Keychain First Aid, and failing that, delete then recreate the keychain as described above while logged in as root.
Persistently asked for stored passwords If you are persistently asked for passwords in various applications that you have specified should be remembered in a keychain, your "login" keychain may not be active for one reason or another.
Navigate to ~/Library/Keychains/ (this is the Library folder inside your user's home folder). Find the file named "login.keychain" and double-click it.
Failing that, select the "login" keychain within the Keychain Access application and make sure it is the default keychain by going to the "File" menu and selecting "Make 'Login' Default"
Turn off Keychain synchronization in applications having problems If specific applications are experiencing issues when accessing password-protected material, the Keychain may be to blame.
The above comes from an article published on MacFixit.com.

Icloud password loop when declining an ask to buy purchase using family sharing

My daughter asked to buy an app using family sharing. I received the notification on my phone and when I hit decline, it asks for my icloud password. When entered, it asks continuously and will not finalize declining the purchase. Same process on my wife's phone. We were able to approve a purchase, just not decline one.
Help please.
I am using a 4s, my daughter and wife both have 5cs. All running iOS8 with family sharing set up.

Thank you Ms. SJ!!!!
I was having this problem with my youngest daughters account. Your post about establishing the payment history apart from family sharing made a lot of sense. My oldest daughter has had an account for some time that she had been adding iTunes gift cards to, so her account was "established" before it was added to our family sharing group. I had no trouble approving her purchases.
I had set up an account for my youngest daughter a long time ago, but used it only for email and iMessage on her iPod. My ID was used for purchases on the device. After Family sharing was launched and she got an iPad for Christmas, I decided to set up her ID as the primary account on her new iPad and added her to family sharing.
The first problem I ran into with Family Sharing was enabling the "Ask to Buy" function because since I set up accounts for my daughters a long time ago they were both showing as adults. I learned from another post that the fix for this was to change their birthdates to January 1, 2001. I did this and it has them listed as Age 14 on their family sharing profiles - fine.
I then ran into the same problem with Ask to Buy that David Wilkie described above. My fix was a little different from yours and less intensive.
Removed my youngest daughter from family sharing
Purchased an app using her account alone (with an iTunes gift card attached) to establish a purchase history.
I then re-added her to our family sharing group.
I had her purchase a song using "Ask to Buy" and it worked as expected.
Thanks for going through the legwork with support to find this fix and share it. I hope my experience can be helpful as well.

How to stop the the icloud password prompt for an old email

I desperately need help. My iphone 4s can't be used because the icloud password prompt comes up every 2 seconds. I had an old itunes account with an old email a long time ago and cancelled the email address. i.e I can't go back into it to read any emails anymore. PS I've never used an icloud account with this email address.
For some reason my Iphone is prompting me to put in a password to sign into this icloud account with my old email address. I try to cancel it but it just prompts me again 2 seconds later. I now can't use my iphone becuase of this.
I've log into all accounts (itunes/ipad/iphone/icloud) and looked at my Apply ID and passwords etc and all are the same, i.e the correct (newer) email address. I've tried to cancel the icloud account on my iphone but it wants the password for the icloud account with the old email and I never set up an account, so don't have anything to type in.
It's saying my accounts not verified on my iphone and tries to send me an email to the correct email address to verify it but I never receive an email to this account to do that.
Is there a way to cancel the old email account on itunes or some other magical trick to help me.
Thankyou for your help in advance.
Jodie

I desperately need help. My iphone 4s can't be used because the icloud password prompt comes up every 2 seconds. I had an old itunes account with an old email a long time ago and cancelled the email address. i.e I can't go back into it to read any emails anymore. PS I've never used an icloud account with this email address.
For some reason my Iphone is prompting me to put in a password to sign into this icloud account with my old email address. I try to cancel it but it just prompts me again 2 seconds later. I now can't use my iphone becuase of this.
I've log into all accounts (itunes/ipad/iphone/icloud) and looked at my Apply ID and passwords etc and all are the same, i.e the correct (newer) email address. I've tried to cancel the icloud account on my iphone but it wants the password for the icloud account with the old email and I never set up an account, so don't have anything to type in.
It's saying my accounts not verified on my iphone and tries to send me an email to the correct email address to verify it but I never receive an email to this account to do that.
Is there a way to cancel the old email account on itunes or some other magical trick to help me.
Thankyou for your help in advance.
Jodie

HT5787 Hi, I forgot my icloud password and my ipodtouch keeps asking me for my icloud password. When I enter my apple ID password, it will not accept it. I have been trying to find where I can reset my icloud password with no success. Please can someone

Hi, I forgot my icloud password and my ipodtouch keeps asking me for my icloud password. When I enter my apple ID password, it will not accept it. I have been trying to find where I can reset my icloud password with no success. Please can someone help?

You reset the iClould password the same way you reset the Apple ID for the email address/account
How do I change or recover a forgotten Apple ID Password?
If you've forgotten your Apple ID Password or want to change it, go to My Apple ID and follow the instructions. SeeChanging your Apple ID password if you'd like more information.

On my iphone 4s, with the ios 7 update why icloud password is always asked every 3-4 minutes

on my iphone 4s, with the ios 7 update why icloud password is always asked every 3-4 minutes? I'm getting crazy.

its asking you to verify your Cloud account and you should do so.
You can either do so by answering your own secret questions or asking for email to be sent to you which gives link to reset password.
Has to be 8 characters minimum and at least one Upper case and One lower case letter with one numeral
Hope this helps

How can I turn off the iCloud password prompt?

Running OS X 10.10.1, on each login I'm prompted twice for an iCloud password. How can I turn this off?
iCloud is not listed at system preferences / users and groups / login items, which is where I expect to see apps selected as startup apps. See the following screen cap - this is the dialog I'm seeing, which I want to turn off:

If you are using iCloud at all, stay signed in at System Preferences > iCloud. If you do not stay signed in, all iCloud series will keep prompting you for the password.

I forgot my icloud password but when I go to verify my birthdate in order to answer my security questions, it says "For your security, please provide a longer answer." can someone explain this to me? Seriously how can I provide a longer answer?

I forgot my icloud password. I attemptted to reset it by going to my security questions and answering them but when I go to verify my birthday, it says
Please verify your birth date to continue.
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Seriously how am I suppose to provide a longer answer?

If you are having problems using the website to reset your password, you can call AppleCare support. They can assist you with AppleID issues, and I believe there will be no charge for that.
AppleCare phone number: (800)-694-7466

Possible to disable password prompt when installing aps?

Trying out a Macbook pro to decide if I want to keep it or not. I own an IT company and am a PC user, so this is a new environment for me.
When I install programs, it prompts me for authentication to do so. This is as annoying in this OS as it was in Windows, but at least I know where to disable it in windows. So far, I have been unable to find it in this OS and the security options in preferences has nothing at all for this option.
Thanks for any assistance to the noob.
John

Hi John;
When I worked for IBM, I can't remember how many times users would be migrated from Winders boxes to Unix ones because their need for power had increased. Once migrated over to Unix they started to griping about the password prompt of Unix. They would carry on like it was the end of the world. After I told them, my manager told them and my manager told their manager that it was a feature of Unix, they would finally stop griping. I doubt that they were happy but at least they stopped bugging me.
I would usually suggest they move back to Winders but everyone of them felt that the Unix box was far more powerful so they remained with it. They never seemed satisfied enough with the extra power of the Unix workstation to overlook the password prompt. I really find that surprising.
Allan
Message was edited by: Allan Eckert

How to prevent the regular password prompts when watching a movie on my MacBook Air?

Hello everyone.
I recently started renting movies from the iTunes store and watched them on my MacBook Air since I don't have an appleTV. (In fact on my TV connected via HDMI cable to the MacBook but I think that doesn't change the cause)
Now every now and then a automatic password prompt kicks in overlaying the movie, so I have to stand up each time and type in the administrator password in the middle of the movie. This happens maybe about every 30-45 mins. Needless to say this is extremely unpleasant when watching a movie. Unfortunately I cannot tell you which programm causes the prompt since I always close all other programms other than iTunes.
Is there a way to temporarily prevent all automatic password prompts?
I hope you can help me,
Greetings jonezdotcom

This is taken from Mac Help. It should guide you in solving your issue.
Changing the way users log in
You can require users to enter a password to log in to your computer, or you can turn on automatic login, which automatically logs in a specified user each time the computer starts up.
Automatic login is useful if you’re the only person who uses your computer, and the computer is always in a safe and secure place. If you have more than one user account on your computer, or if you’re concerned about the security of information on your computer, you should require users to log in with a password. Automatic login is not available for accounts that are using FileVault encryption.
If you require users to log in, you can change what they see in the login window. You can show a list of users with a picture next to each name and a place to enter the password, or require users to enter both their user name and password.
To change the way users log in:
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Accounts.
Open Accounts preferences
Click the lock icon to unlock it, and then type an administrator name and password.
Click Login Options.
Do one of the following:
To require users to log in whenever the computer starts up, choose Off from the “Automatic login” pop-up menu.
To have the computer automatically log in to a particular account when the computer starts up, choose the account from the “Automatic login” pop-up menu, enter an administrator password, and click OK.
IMPORTANT: Automatic login allows anyone to get immediate access to your computer simply by restarting it. If you turn on automatic login, make sure the computer doesn’t automatically log in to an account with administrator privileges.
Next to the ”Display login window as,” select how you want the login window to appear:
To have users select an account from a list in the login window, select “List of users.”
To require users to type their user account name and password, select “Name and password.”
To show each user’s password hint, select the “Show password hints” checkbox.
If you turn on automatic login for yourself, the computer opens your account when it starts up. If you log out, other users see a login window to log in to their user accounts.
The Login Options pane of Accounts preferences
Use the Login Options pane of Accounts preferences to change the way the login window behaves to be more secure or set up the way users will log in to their accounts
PREFERENCE EXPLANATION
Automatic login
To have the computer automatically log in to an account at startup, choose the account from the pop-up menu. This is less secure than requiring users to log in, since it allows anyone to use the computer just by turning it on.
To require users to select an account and enter a password to log in, choose Off from the pop-up menu.
Automatic login is not available for accounts that are using FileVault encryption.
Display login window as
Select “List of users” to have users choose their accounts from a list in the login window.
Select “Name and password” to require users to type their name and password in the login window.

Why does imail on my iMac keep asking for passwords, that when I enter the correct one it does not recognise, but Yahoo does, its driving me nuts!!!!

What is going on at Apple, mail keeps asking for a password, that when I enter, it ignores, my imac is telling me it cannot talk to the Yahoo server, but I can get through every time on Safari. This is driving me nuts!!!

you are lucky i will say,
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ICloud Password challenge when creating email on iPhone

Everytime I go to send an email on my phone from my work account, I am asked to enter my iCloud password. I have tried to store it everywhere I could find on my phone, but the problem persists. This problem started after the last iOS update. Can anyone help with this?

Is this a new phone?
Did you buy it second hand?
https://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html
https://iforgot.apple.com/appleid
If you forgot your Apple ID password - Apple Support
Contact Apple for help with Apple ID account security
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Password prompt when I connect

I just setup my wireless router and I setup a key to connect but it only asked me once for the password when I hit the connect option. Now every time I hit connect it does not ask me for the password I set. What do I have to do for every time I hit the connect option it prompts me for the password I set?

Most wireless utility automatically saves a profile so that the computer can connect to the wireless network everytime you are in range.
Dont worry its a feature on your computer.
you can keep deleting the profile or prefered network on the computer so that it prompts you all the time
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"Give them nothing... But take from them everything..."
-Leonidas "300"

Multiple password prompts when importing distributed form responses

I have a two page form that I've distributed to my local server. When I test the form and send it back, it all works as it's supposed to. The problem comes in when I try to access my password protected _responses file. I have no problem accessing the empty portfolio with the password I've given it; however when it starts to import form submissions, it prompts me for the portfolio password 4 times for each individual form. What am I doing wrong?!

Hi,
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Selecting this will display the whole text in the field and user will not have any issues while printing the form.
Regards,
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I can't get password prompt to display; have already tried resetting Firefox and still problem occurs in Safe Mode.

The problem is with not with every website, just one. This is a site that previously remembered my username & pw, but I changed the pw and the prompt did not display to update it, so I deleted it from the Firefox/Options/Security/Saved Passwords tab, and now when I type in the new pw, it's still not asking me whether I want to remember the pw (nor does it remember the old pw). I tried Safe Mode and I tried resetting Firefox. Neither one worked.

You can check if there are entries in the password manager with an empty user name.<br />
Remove saved Password(s):
* Tools > Options > Security: Passwords: "Saved Passwords" > "Show Passwords"
You can also check the exceptions.
* Tools > Options > Security: Passwords: Exceptions
You can remove all stored data from a specific domain via "Forget About This Site" in the right-click context menu of an history entry (Show All History or History sidebar) or via the about:permissions page.
Using "Forget About This Site" will remove everything like bookmarks, cookies, passwords, cache, history, and exceptions from that domain, so be cautious and if you have a password or other data from that domain that you do not want to lose then make a note of those passwords and bookmarks.<br />
You can't recover from that "forget" unless you have a backup of the affected files.
It doesn't have any lasting effect, so if you revisit such a 'forgotten' website then data from that website will be saved once again.

Why Icloud password prompt when it is already correct

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