I can't seem to use iCloud -- nothing is syncing, and everything is unchecked.
But when I try to sign out, it tells me I have to disable Contacts and Calendar.
And when I disable Contacts and Calendar, they just re-enable themselves.
I'm really not sure how to proceed. Everything is broken.
I had a very similar problem. Just be patient. Uncheck everything... then remove icloud and sign out (may take up to 5 minutes). Then i'd suggest restarting your Mac and waiting a good 10-15minutes. Then sign back in.
I finally have mine all working.
I keep trying to uncheck things but they check themselves...
Any ideas?
Are you using the iCloud panel or Internet Accounts panel? Do you have more than one instance of iCloud in Internet Accounts?
I've had better luck with trying to remove from Internet Accounts rather than iCloud.
same issue here
Good idea, but unfortunately it's got the same behavior inside Internet Accounts. But I do have three versions of the same iCloud account in there...
Yeah, I found that working in there to remove the accounts gives you some wiggle room... you almost have to time it. It's like one account is being removed while the others are "re-applying" the settings... it's dumb 🙂
I ended up making another user account and migrating my data to it.
Best of both worlds -- clean El Capitan install with all my data intact.
I had this exact problem too. I solved it by deleting all files from the following folder:
/Users/<MY HOME FOLDER>/Library/Application Support/iCloud/Accounts
I was then able to get into the iCloud preference pane, where it asked me for my new password. After giving it, all was working again.
FWIW, I deleted the files while running OS X from another partition, but that was probably not essential.
This fixed my issue!
