Connect to your iCloud account.
If you're using two-factor authentication with your iCloud account (and you should), log into your iCloud account and create an app-specific password.
iOS
- Open Canary.
- At the upper-left corner of the screen, tap the Menu icon.
- In the upper-left corner of the screen, tap the setting icon.
- Click on Add Account
- Click on iCloud.
- Enter your iCloud e-mail address.
- Enter the app-specific password you created for Canary.
- Enter an arbitrary name by which Canary will refer to your iCloud account.
- Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the From header in outgoing messages.
macOS
- Open Canary.
- In the system menu bar, open the Canary Mail menu.
- Click Add Account.
- Enter your iCloud e-mail address.
- Enter the app-specific password you created for Canary.
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- Enter an arbitrary name by which Canary will refer to your iCloud account.
- Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the From header in outgoing messages.
Canary will automatically configure iCloud server settings for you, but should you ever need this information, you can find it in this Apple support article:
Comments
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I have been trying this on my Mac and my iPhone but it does not work on either. I had no problem with Hotmail and Gmail, both accounts were added to Canary Mail with no problem. But my iCloud account will not be added. Every time I enter my app-specific password it does not get past the authenticating part. It always ends up telling me "please check username/password. I have tried on all my apple devices many many times but it does not work. I am using CanaryMail through Setapp.
I second this, as I'm having the exact same issue. I've even tried revoking and re-creating an app-specific password for Canary, and it still doesn't work. I can't speak for you or your phone, but ever since I updated to iOS 14 the other day, my iPhone is acting weird and getting temporarily 'stuck' a lot. . .as if the processor can't handle this new iOS or something. A number of my apps are not loading correctly or functioning as before in minute ways, etc. Needless to say, I'm due for an upgrade anyway and waiting for this new 12 to come out soon!
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