When tapping into it to check the settings on that other device, I had to re-authenticate and do 2FA (ok, no biggie). So no icloud storage or mail either on this account on any device. In that, I only used it for contacts (all other toggles disabled). Thanks to skuijper above, I also went to one of the other devices where the secondary account was already added. Hopefully, Apple fixes this bug in an upcoming iOS update and we won’t have to jump through hoops to add a second iCloud account in Mail after that.Īlright folks, I think I figured it out :) The support agent escalated this issue to engineering and I have a case I can check to see if it’s been updated with a resolution. Now, once you have that new App Specific password, go back to Mail settings and use the App specific password for both the incoming and outgoing mail servers. Make sure you copy this password somewhere as once you leave the screen you won’t be able to see it again. Under settings there, create an App Specific password.

Use a web browser and log into you secondary account’s AppleID. You need to create an App Specific password under setting in you AppleID. Under username for each mail server, enter your iCloud name without the here’s the trick, under ‘Password’, entering you iCloud password here WILL NOT WORK. You’ll need to set up the mail servers manually.įor both, you’ll input the server addresses in the ‘Host Name’ field for each. When you go to set up the secondary iCloud account in the Mail settings, choose “Other” instead of the iCloud option. He escalated the issue as adding a second account is clearly something that was supported up until the newest iOS/iPadOS and is no longer working.īut…he DID provide a workaround that got it working for me. Ok, well I called Apple support again on Friday on this time got a senior advisor who actually understood what I was trying to do and what wasn’t working.

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