About to throw Macbook out of the window eternal no recognition of password

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About to throw Macbook out of the window eternal no recognition of password

Apple mail at some point switched, instead of being able to send email from one of my four accounts, I could only pick ONE. Today i sent out an email but forgot to use the correct one. Now every 2 min the email pops up with a box, enter your apple password. I have a million times, says it’s incorrect. I changed my password on all devices, same thing. Because of this box, I can’t even delete the email draft so it continually pops up. And yes I restarted my email. This issue with my Mac not recognizing my password has been happening for MONTHS, not matter if I change the password or not.

MacBook Air, macOS 14.0

Posted on Jul 29, 2025 11:51 AM

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Jul 29, 2025 12:38 PM in response to KiltedTim

Hi Tim. Thanks for responding. It’s iCloud. And I did this once before. And it didn’t work. I just did it again over 10 minutes ago, and the little wheel is still spinning. Since I deleted my iCloud account. So now I have no more iCloud mail. Any suggestions?

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Jul 29, 2025 01:39 PM in response to Scak

Remove all of the email accounts, and re-add those that you use / need.

This will not affect any mail on the server, or any mail stored on the Mac.

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Jul 29, 2025 02:12 PM in response to KiltedTim

It is. It finally went through, the closing and reopening of my ICloud email account. That stopped the same email from popping up. However, I was just online and the same message in a box pops up, “ Apple Services Can’t connect to your account.” I enter my password and it says it doesn’t recognize the password or user ID. I just changed it today.

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Jul 29, 2025 02:15 PM in response to MrHoffman

Hi and thanks for writing. I closed and reopened my iCloud email account. That stopped the same email from popping up. However, I was just online and the same message in a box pops up, “ Apple Services Can’t connect to your account.” I enter my password and it says it doesn’t recognize the password or user ID. I just changed it today.

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Jul 30, 2025 06:27 PM in response to KiltedTim

Hi Tim. I did this and it didn’t work. A box still keeps popping up on Macbook Air asking for my Apple ID and password. I enter the correct password and… it says it’s wrong and the box continues to pop up.

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