iCloud pop-up at every Windows 11 startup

I have the same problem and everything I’ve done doesn’t work. Frustrated beyond belief.

Please don’t tell us about ways of getting rid of iCloud! I want to use it. It should not pop open a window at startup because it has a system tray icon. There is no reason to open the app. How about fixing the problem. It clearly started with the latest version.

same issue here - same version - very frustrating

I've had this exact issue after a recent update

The icloud app integration with windows is super annoying overall. The passwords app is absolute junk which crashes all the time, and now when I'm playing games on my pc - I am getting the icloud software popping up randomly with no option to disable it! What gives apple!? why is this software so crappy??? My apple hardware (multiple ipads, macbook, iphone and apple watch's) are starting to get old now and like the last guy that replied who switched to samsung, I am considering the same.

I am paying $50 a month for a 2TB icloud account with all the other apple services (apple one) which I am considering switching to spotify and just using my synology NAS with amazon AWS cloud backup. Amazon Prime offers unlimited photo storage as a secondary backup.

Apple fix your software! I don't want to be interrupted by this software ever. Every update the software does one more annoying thing. Where is the QA?!

I'd like to follow-up. What I finally did tonight was uninstall iCloud for Windows and iCloud for Outlook from my Windows 11 laptop. I tried numerous other "fixes" which didn't work. I apologize that I cannot provide details, but I do recall this: 1) I removed all iCloud apps from StartUp in Settings/Apps. I removed iCloud apps from Task Manager (not just End Task, but removed from StartUp in Task Manager), and I even used a Command Prompt function (with several other drill-downs) which I found online. None of those things worked.

Not that I'm a favorite of either platform - Windows vs. iOs - but frankly, even after all these years, they do not play nice together in the sandbox. I'm trading in my iPhone for a Samsung and will be done with it! (Going all Apple is not an option.)

I know you may not wish to remove the Apple apps, but that's the only option I saw & tried online which worked for me. I'm happy with it.

Try signing out of iCloud, then signing in. That fixed it for me. I found that solution in other thread.

Apple all you need to do to fix this is to put a little check box that says do not display on startup. check it and the window never shows. Or, set it to use the tray app if we want to see it to change a setting by doing a right click on it.

When I attempt to sign out, I'm warned that this will delete all photos and videos stored in iCloud will be deleted from the PC. I suspect that, like most folks that is several thousand photos - a pretty scary proposition - but I bite the bullet and proceed only to be informed that

and, I'm not signed out.

However, a further annoyance has bee added. When I open Outlook, I have two additional screens to navigate that tell me

and then

obviously really old files that have nothing to do with the curent problem.

I have exactly the same issue.

Version 15.3.152

no setting to control it.

Seems, the working solutiuon is there: iCloud on windows keeps opening non stop - Apple Community

I am also having this issue, and it is annoying. It almost feels like they don't care or do this purposefully to force you to change systems.

That does not even work. You can not sign out! This level of iCloud is really broken. Come on Apple fix it already.