Frozen iCloud window in System Settings on 2021 MBP in Ventura 13.1
It began with a warning that I have to accept "New iCloud Terms and Conditions" on the 2021 MBP 16.
No matter how many times I accepted, the warning never went away and the window appearing in the right upper corner of the screen constantly reappears warning me about accepting those terms and conditions.
I then searched this forum and found out that there are others having the same issue. I did a few of the recommended things. Nothing worked.
One of the suggestions was to turn off "Private Relay". I checked what this is (never heard of this before), found it turned off on my Mac.
I then made a mistake. I turned Private Relay on and that is where my problems really begun.
First, System Settings completely froze. I was unable to click on anything or scroll in that window. The rest of the Mac seemed to work fine, except for System Settings.
Second, after force quitting system settings I was after several tries able to go back into iCloud settings to turn off private relay. However, the iCloud window and anything connected to my Apple ID remains frozen or very unresponsive to scrolling, clicking, etc in System Settings. Sometimes buttons are activated with a delay of 30 seconds from clicking on them.
Third, Private Relay now seems to be stuck on "loading" when I am able to view the info in my iCloud settings.
Fourth, I cannot see or scroll to the area where I could sign out of my iCloud. That option seems not to exist any more in System Settings for me.
Fifth, most of the time when I click on my name in the left upper corner in System Settings, the subsequent window is completely blacked out. If the contents appear, scrolling does not work and clicking on the options does not work either. Occasionally there is a response with a delay of >20-30 seconds.
Most recently another warning appeared in system settings asking me to log again into iCloud, the usual "Update Apple ID Settings", but the "update" button is unresponsive.
Not sure what to do.
Very frustrating. I would erase the nonadministrative account from my Mac, but this was the first account ever established on this Mac, per some information I received from Apple it is an important account and I am not sure how the Mac would behave if I erased this account completely because of this issue with iCloud.
Please advise.
Thank you.
