iPhone keeps asking for Apple ID password

I FIXED IT. I genuinely, finally found the issue. Listen up boys and girls.. if you’ve had your iPhone ask you for your Apple ID password EVERY DAY since ios13 - I’m about to drop a fix on ya.

First go to Settings -> “Touch/Face ID & Passcode”

Turn OFF “iTunes and App Store” under “use Touch/Face ID for”

Then go to Settings -> “iTunes and App Store” -> Password Settings at the top (if this doesn’t appear, turn off Screen Time. This another bug. Thanks apple)

if you’re like me, you’ll have the setting Require Password both switched ON and GREYED OUT. Either way, select Always Require at the top, authenticate if it asks, then select Require After 15 Minutes. And then authenticate again. Sometime two or three times.

either way, then you’ll be able to switch Require Password OFF.

that will fix the problem.

i suspect you’ll be able to the switch back on Require Password and also Touch/Face ID for iTunes and App Store, but I haven’t been game yet to try it.

just so happy that my phone isn’t prompting me every single day for my password, sometimes at midnight when I’m trying to sleep.

Having the same issue here.

it seems the password is being asked for background downloading of app updates.

I knew of the “hidden” password menu in iTunes and AppStore menu.

that was the first thing I tried to change to fix this issue.

My toggle for asking password on free downloads (which should also dictate the behaviour when downloading app updates) is in the OFF position.

Still the phone asks me for the password every single day.

What I did notice though is that if I go into the AppStore app and try to manually download app updates, it doesn’t ask me for a password if I update one app at a time.

If I just select “update all” at the top of the list, the password prompt appears, disregarding the Touch ID being activated for AppStore “purchases”.

Also, if I try to download a new free app, the Touch ID prompt appears as it should, following the setting in iTunes and AppStore menu.

For me the issue started a few weeks ago, but since I have multiple Apple devices and it started doing that all of a sudden across all of them, I’m assuming it’s a server-side issue, since I definitively didn’t change the same setting on all my Apple devices.

My friend.

I cannot thank you enough for this post! This obnoxious issue has been plaguing me for multiple years over multiple phones and no one from Apple has ever offered any kind of help that actually fixed the issue.

This method fixed the problem and I've had no password pop ups for a few days in a row, thank goodness.

Again, huge thanks.

There have been multiple posts about the daily request to input your password. For some people logging out of iCloud and back in has worked, but that hasn't worked for everyone. This seems to be an IOS 13 bug.

I've also tried all the suggested fixes and also found nothing has worked. I'm fed up with having to hit 'cancel' every time I try to run an app. This is an IOS 13 problem - no issue before the change.

Hey guys!

For those of you still having this issue, check in your Screen Time settings.

I just found out today that on my iPhone in the “content restriction and privacy” section in Screen Time the content restriction had been activated and under “iTunes and App Store purchase” the setting for password was set to “always ask”.

I disabled the password thing and then disabled the content restriction and now the phone no longer asks me for my Apple ID password when I select “update all” apps in AppStore.

I then changed the same setting on my iPad Pro too and now it’s not asking for password anymore either.

hope this might help some of you.

I had a school iTunes account on my phone many years ago (and two schools ago). This new iOS has my phone asking for the password multiple times a day! It doesn’t exist in my settings etc... Any suggestions to make it go away welcomed!

Thought I'd throw in my 2 cents here as I've been dealing with this issue since launch of the 11 pro. Ordered an 11 on launch day and been dealing with this since I turned it on. Spent numerous hours on the phone with Apple support and in person at a store and I've run through the gamut on diagnostic steps; Signed out/back into AppleID, changed AppleID password, reset phone to factory defaults 3 times, made sure no apps are pending updates etc all to no avail. Finally due to this and some other issues I've been having with the phone they sent me a replacement, which worked great for ~ 2 weeks and now the problem has returned with no other changes to my AppleID or phone. This is looking to be another bug in the laundry list that iOS 13 has introduced.

I talked with apple support, and he recommended me to change password, and a full reset my iPhone afterwards.

I haven’t seen the problem for 3 days now, so it worked.

Apple’s QA must be crap. This a controlled Environment, bugs like this should be easily found and addressed before release.

to add to this issue, why is the full keyboard used when asking for the numeric passcode. Some people only remember the letters tied to the number pad and not the actual numbers. I know my lock screen code by the pattern.

THIS IS IT! A weeks of refusing to enter my password (and no immediate repercussions), I saw that none of my apps had been updated, despite automatic updates being turned on. My best guess is that the daily prompts is the App Store trying to update my apps and asking for a password even when it isn't supposed to. This explains why it was *almost* at the same time every day- if there were no new updates 24 hours later, perhaps it wouldn't ask again until there were. Now that I knew the App Store was to blame, I was able to google and find your answer.

You're lucky, but the ROOT CAUSE is not in iTunes and/or App Store & Face ID.

I don't use Face ID at all on my iPhone 11 Pro Max and didn't use it on my Pro MS X I had before, yet had the same nagging prompts

The issue is a bug in the iOS that needs to be addressed by Apple.

Do a backup and try a factory reset. Then restore from your backup.

Restore to Factory setting

Backup - Restore your device from an iCloud or iTunes backup

We have the same problem. Everyday at the same time like it is every 24 hours.

I tried all great suggestions, but it still goes on and on every day.

Wired.

I did a full Google search and tried at least 3 ‘solutions' but still have this same annoying problem. I thought the last mini update had cleared it, but next day ... back again. What is Apple doing?