Strange as I can assure you that this is how I recovered the account. This was on macOS Sierra which might be part of it then System Preferences -> iCloud The

Strange as I can assure you that this is how I recovered the account. This was on macOS Sierra which might be part of it then System Preferences -> iCloud The first apple support person I talked to did not know how-to recover the account this way. So it does not seem to be in the scripts.