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My son has a baby/minor account on my iMac. It is a household account.
He has his personal username and password and iCloud entry.
We just lately bough him his personal MacBook.
I can’t work out the right way to join/configure this new MacBook to his iCloud account.
Throughout setup the MacBook is not going to let me log into his account, retains saying password is improper, then it freezes it…. however then I’m going to the iMac and I can login into his account together with his password that the MacBook thinks is improper.
So I gave up on that and logged into the brand new MacBook with my account and it labored.
Now I am making an attempt so as to add my sons youngster/iCloud account as a person to this MacBook and it can’t be anymore troublesome. I’ve no clue.
He exhibits up beneath household, however once I logout it solely has me as a person to log again in.
I’m going to Customers & Teams and add account, however this desires to create an entire new account, I Simply need to use his current account. Additionally I need to preserve his account on my iMac, so he can both login to my iMac (as he has been doing) beneath his personal account to login to the brand new MacBook beneath his account.
Any concepts on the right way to make this work?
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I’d make a backup of the working Mac after which restore it onto the brand new pc.
Then delete any accounts and apps from the brand new pc that aren’t wanted.
Arrange the brand new pc to again up as nicely and so long as you could have each backed up if it’s worthwhile to erase and begin over you gained’t lose the information or setup that works.
It could be laborious to remotely guess what the error on the brand new pc is. Have you ever tried Apple assist to get troubleshooting on utilizing the brand new account on the brand new Mac? They’re excellent at seeing the display and going via 20 questions kind troubleshooting and sure have helped a number of individuals yesterday with the difficulty you face at present.
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