I've just changed my password which Apple have acknowledged, but now I'm left with the dreaded spinning
wheel, and the 3 coloured dots will only allow me to minimise to the dock.
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15
To clarify, did you change your Apple Account password, your iMac's User Account password, or both?
What window are you describing? System Preferences, or...?
Computer Password and Apple ID Password ( formerly Apple ID ) should not be one and the same
Apple has tighten up security and has forced me, some years ago, the either Change my Apple Account Password or change the Computer password
This all occurred around the time of a New Purchase of an iPhone 15 Pro
Had not transfers Account from Old iPhone to New iPhone which set these wheels in motion
Like it or not
Apple is serious abuot Security even if it now requires two separate and different Passwords
One for Apple Account and different password for Apple Computers
We can not " Fight City Hall " on this one
None of that is true.
It seems you have been misled, and you are not addressing Apple on this site.
Please try to explain your concerns in greater detail. Writing an effective Apple Support Communities question - Apple Community may help.
I wasn't aware that I needed a separate user password rather than just use my Apple password which I THOUGHT were one and the same. Evidently, not the case, but Apple never make that abundantly clear in the Systems preferences pane. Apple seems to love being a pain in the ***.
It was bad enough my 12 year old iMac not letting me print via my router, instead of plugging the cable directly from the printer into the iMac. But I've discovered a short term 'get around' for that. I can print from my MacBook Air, via the USB socket on the Macbook. All is good until Apple stop supporting Monterey.
I had changed my user account password on my iMac, but I don't understand why I should need separate passwords, that caused the spinning circle to hang. which caused me to initiate the response. I think it had a lot to do with Apple's policy of withdrawing coverage of assistance with IOS and devices more than 3 years old.
It also wouldn't or didn't recognise the newly created password when I clicked the padlock
in order to amend the paper size in the Printers & Scanners window. It seems that I will be forced to purchase a
replacement of my current iMac with a later model. Thanks a bundle, Apple!! 😉
P.S. The word 'hags' should have been HANGS, i.e. wouldn't disappear, and that I also couldn't minimise the window to the dock.
Where, exactly, are you being asked to enter separate passwords. It's really hard to understand what problem you're having. There's no reason to enter a password to change paper size in the printer setting unless, perhaps, you're on a Mac managed by someone else.
What are you trying to do and what happens? More detail will help you get an answer.
I was trying to open the lock under the 'Printers and Scanners' pane to change the default paper size from A5 back to A4. I didn't realise that the user password was different from my ID password. Apple don't seem to make that clear in the 'Systems Preferences' pane. I suspect that my changing my password had something to do with my confusion over the ID/User difference in passwords.
It appears that Apple has a major hang-up in doubling up on privacy and security.
sapper wrote:
I wasn't aware that I needed a separate user password rather than just use my Apple password which I THOUGHT were one and the same. Evidently, not the case, but Apple never make that abundantly clear in the Systems preferences pane. Apple seems to love being a pain in the ***.
Password security recommendations
In my years using Apple Products and services
There comes a point where We ( collective we ) need to inform ourselves and Not Depend on Apple to " Spoon Feed " us all the answers
After all, we do have certain responsibilities , do we not ?
EDITED - self
To add a Link form a well respected Contributor
Thank you 👍
I like to think of this as Team Work 👍
To be On Topic
Really hope OP takes the advise and reads it
iMac user password. I wasn't aware that they were different.
Password has changed, but the window hags with spinning wheel
