I keep trying to activate Keychain and Apple ID, and it spins for a little while, then it fails, notification bubble appears again. It's not even like I'm getting a 2FA sent to another device or anything, just fails out. Anyone else getting this?
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Can't Log Into Apple ID Account
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It happened to me also, but I fixed it by logging into icloud.com to reset my Apple ID password, and then retrying the iCloud and/or keychain setup in Catalina using the new password. It never requested the 2FA even though I have it set up, but instead it asked for my previous macOS admin account password afterwards, and then it worked.
I hope it helps.
I logged out of iCloud, rebooted and logged back in. Got a different prompt to enter iPad passcode. Then it finally worked. So seems the default install Borks the prompt for the passcode.
I believe this is happening because the Catalina install is corrupting your local keychain cache.
The only thing that worked for me was to completely refresh my local keychain by wiping out the local keychain directory.
In: ~/Library/Keychains, I moved aside my keychain directory (the directory with the long string of hexadecimal numbers, safely, by renaming it to <keychainID>_save), then rebooted.
Back into AppleID preferences, the "Keychain" option was unchecked. Check it. Enter your passwords a few times, then let things sync up again. From that point forward, everything worked just fine.
This is a pretty extreme solution, but for me, it worked.
\marc
The only thing that worked for me was to completely refresh my local keychain by wiping out the local keychain directory.
In: ~/Library/Keychains, I moved aside my keychain directory (the directory with the long string of hexadecimal numbers, safely, by renaming it to <keychainID>_save), then rebooted.
Back into AppleID preferences, the "Keychain" option was unchecked. Check it. Enter your passwords a few times, then let things sync up again. From that point forward, everything worked just fine.
This is a pretty extreme solution, but for me, it worked.
\marc
This actually happened to me also, but I didn't have to log out or reboot or anything, just worked somehow out of the blue. Very strange, and very hard to pinpoint why or how it happened.