How to tell if an Update Apple ID Settings message is legit

For reasons best known only to Apple, you may see a message from time to time or even frequently that says:. Update Apple ID Settings.

Some account services require you to sign in again. .

Macworld Editor Karen Haslam offers extensive troubleshooting for this problem, with an update in January 2022 due to a spate of people seeing the message during an outage of Apple’s iCloud servers.
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