please wait verifying login information.. on steam

The only downside to the solution is that the bug may appear after some time. When the client restarts under the offline mode, switch it back to Online again. To do this, launch the client and click on the 'Go Offline' option. Swapping Online/Offline: The other notable working solution is to toggle from Online to Offline.You could try reinstalling Steam on your rig, as mentioned in the comments, maybe something corrupted Steam files? You didn't mention in your question whether you have already tried this. In my opinion you should focus on solving the problem, not working around it. Losing connection has happened to me and letting it reconnect on itself worked for me. Steam actually should really reconnect itself when it's possible, but there is no way to force the process apart from restarting Steam. Sadly, I don't think there is another solution for on-the-go options. Is there anything else that might fix this? Going to community pages, from the main steam client or the overlay, appears to be attempting to connect ('Please wait - Verifying login information.') but then fails ('Error - There was an error communicating with the Steam servers. Steam will automatically retry connection until the service becomes available.' which does not seem true.) (It just shows a message: 'A connection to the Friends network could not be established. I've found How can I get the Steam client to reestablish its connection? but the two solutions are restarting, and clicking 'log in' from view friends list, which doesn't have a log in button for me. I know I can fix this by just restarting (it's worked before) but this was a time-consuming achievement to get, and if I close the game it's gone, so I'd really like to coax Steam into reconnecting if at all possible. nothing else requiring a connection works - notably, the game I'm in where I should have just unlocked an achievement didn't actually unlock it.it sort of thinks it's in offline mode: the overlay says 'Friends is not available in offline mode.' and trying to install a game results in 'Games cannot be installed while Steam is in offline mode.'.it sort of thinks it's in online mode: the client menu has a 'go offline.' option, which doesn't help - it requires restarting).

Please wait verifying login information.. on steam