Hate for the iCloud password

If there were a competition for who changes their iCloud password the most often, I would win that. And maybe also for the most creative entries for the iCloud password. By now, I've landed on Waardel00s and IKw0rdgek@2019, maybe iCloud doesn't find that very pleasant, because since then we've really had issues.

What exactly happens? iCloud asks me to enter my password. Why I wonder anyway, because it pops up out of nowhere, but okay. I'm not the worst, so here we go, I type in my fresh password. My first irritation is that you can't make it visible, so you don't know what you're typing. But I look like a hawk at my keyboard while I type, so I assume I've typed it correctly. And yes, there it pops up with red letters. That an unknown error has occurred. Immediately, the friendly-looking suggestion appears asking if I've forgotten my password. No, iCloud, I haven't forgotten it, but apparently you really want me to change it again, so here we go, because I'm not the worst part 2, I enter my phone number. I get the code on my mobile, I enter it on my laptop, verify with my login code, and come up with a new password. That's what I'm dealing with these days.

Just when I think I'm back in the saddle, the little devil comes around the corner again. I land back on the window. Now I don't know if it's the ‘old’ window that was still there before I had to change my password or if it asked again to make sure everything was correct now. Catch 22. I type in my fresh password. It doesn't recognize it. See, that was a window from the pre-password-changing era, wasn't it? ARE YOU STILL THERE, BY THE WAY? Then I click everything away and a new window will pop up asking for my password. Correct. I type it in again, but now the password suddenly doesn't work anymore. Probably because it saved it as ‘incorrect’.

So...

We're changing it again. And when I get to the relevant window, I first click it away. Ha. Something about a donkey. And then a new window comes up and everything will be sorted and life will be beautiful. And what do you think? Red letters again.

If there's an iCloud doctor in the room... I'm now on life support.

Also suffering from laptop aggression? For these reasons I curse even more at my computer.