How to log in apple id on 10.10.5 Yosemite

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How to log in apple id on 10.10.5 Yosemite

@MervynG and others:

I have the same problem as MervynG describes in August 2024 – but I did not find the solution. Is this problem solved? If so, pleas let me know how! THANK YOU!!

I have a MacBook Pro (mid 2012) on Yosemite 10.10.5. For reasons unknown my Apple ID does not recognise the password anymore. I can't seem to get a notification on the PowerBook as I used to. I've already changed the password but still no success. Then I deleted the "internet account" ("icloud") on my MacBook (after several attempts this worked (you need the password acceptance for that…). But I am not able to set it up again (always says "invalid password"). On more up to date devices (iPhone, my husband's PowerBook, my iPad) all remained ok and, of course, with their two-factor verification, the 6 digits are sent and I can log in on them with a new password. I can successfully access appleid.apple.com on my MacBook via Firefox and also sign in here via Firefox but in the system "einstellungen" under "iCloud" and under "Internetaccounts" it always says "invalid password".

I have a lot of expensive 'bought' software that will not function on later OS so I do not want to update even if it were possible.

Any idea how to get around this and solve the problem?

Earlier Mac models

Posted on Mar 4, 2025 10:49 AM

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a brody

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Mar 17, 2025 04:41 PM in response to anke272

Ah, got my answer:

System requirements for iCloud - Apple Support

So it would appear for a few functions the MFA pre-10.12.4 is available but only earlier versions of Sierra, and no earlier MacOS releases. So alas that limits access to the App Store on older OSes and MacOS downloads. There other places you can get flash drives of MacOS to install if the App Store is not available to you.

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g_wolfman

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Mar 16, 2025 02:12 PM in response to anke272

Is this expensive "bought" software 32-bit or something? If so, you could consider updating at least to Sierra, which will still run 32 bit apps and also avoid some of the other problems of Yosemite.

If that's not the issue, then you really ought to consider going to Catalina - I say this because I don't know of any software that capped out on Yosemite, and only a few that capped out on El Capitan. Unless the company is just no longer in business and an update that was once available is no longer, or I suppose if it was very, very niche software.

Conversely, that computer is getting old and the last MacBook Pro model that would support Yosemite is the last Retina model from mid-2015. Maybe you could install Yosemite in a later MacBook Pro under a Parallels VM. Regardless, you need to think about how you are going to use those applications when your computer eventually dies and plan appropriately.

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a brody

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Mar 16, 2025 10:56 AM in response to anke272

AppleID once set for multifactor to work on an iPhone or iPad will be waiting on your entering the secondary number from the iPhone or iPad immediately after your password on your Yosemite, or any Mac pre Sierra 10.12.4. 10.12.4 is the first Mac OS that behaves like current iPhones and iPads in revealing the MFA code when something logs in the AppleID new.

Also 10.10.5 does not work on Powerbooks. It works on MacBook Pros. Powerbook is Apple's old pre-2006 naming convention for their professional notebooks. A MacBook Pro is not a Powerbook. The reason for Power naming is the old Apple/IBM/Motorola joint venture called PowerPC. When Apple adopted Intel CPUs in 2006, they renamed their notebooks all some variety of MacBook.

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