Confirm Macbook pro password

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Confirm Macbook pro password

Hi, I've been having an issue with my month-old MacBook Pro asking for me to confirm my password to continue using iCloud.

I have a persistent notification about it, 24/7. If I open the notification I get the window below to start with:

If I click 'continue' it flashes up the little pop up animation below for less than a second. I had to keep trying to grab it in a screenshot, but eventually managed it before it disappeared. The window is just the great box with the loading animation, which fades out in about half a second and disappears, leaving me in the same place as before.

Nothing I can do will clear it/ It does not give me the opportunity to put in my password. No password entry box appears and neither is it hidden behind anything. I have rebooted the MacBook, I've signed out of the laptop and back in again, signed out of iCloud, disconnected all of my iCloud services, rebooted and signed back in again after that to reconnect them all and it is the same every time.

Does anyone have any advice as to how to clear this?

MacBook Pro Apple Silicon

Posted on Feb 2, 2023 04:49 AM

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Answer 1

dialabrain

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Feb 2, 2023 07:36 AM in response to Eskimimi

Eskimimi wrote:

I’m on Ventura 13.2, and that didn’t fix it for me, sadly.

It never happened with my iMac Pro, only with my M1 MacBook Air, but it stopped.

I suppose you could try booting into Safe Mode then restart normally. That will sometimes clear anomalies.

How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support

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Answer 2

Feb 8, 2023 10:02 AM in response to Eskimimi

I have this issue too and it's been ever since I purchased this laptop. I logged out of my iCloud, but then it made a duplicate of everything on my MAC and that is a mess! Still can get it to go away!

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Owl-53

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Feb 2, 2023 06:44 AM in response to Eskimimi

The Notification I received with Ventura 13.2 was presented ( Not every one did )

What I did ( your case ) was to Click in User Account Name ( Mimi Code ) and confirm the Password of this machine.

Though, again in your case, not sure this will work because yours is setup in a Family ( Sharing ? ) setup

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Barney-15E

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Feb 2, 2023 07:32 AM in response to Eskimimi

The only idea I have is to sign out of iCloud on that device, then sign back in. It will ask if you want to keep several things locally on the Mac. I would not do that as you will end up with duplicates when you sign back in. However, it is a somewhat scary proposition. I'm pretty confident all of my information is stored on the cloud.

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Eskimimi Author

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Feb 7, 2023 05:36 AM in response to Barney-15E

I’ve tried booting up in safe mode now, which didn’t work.

I also disconnected all of my iCloud services, sign out on the MacBook Pro, reboot, sign back into iCloud and reconnect all the services and that still didn’t fox it, and now it’s sort of stuck out of sync and I can’t access newly created documents, etc from elsewhere.

I feel completely at a loss with it :(

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