I pick up my phone to unlock it and there is a lock screen notification to enter my AppleID password. This happens randomly as far as I can tell usually two or three times a day. I always enter my password as requested but it continues to happen. It’s getting quite annoying at this point.
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 13
This is only happening with my iTunes AppleID (I use a separate AppleID for iCloud services). I signed out, restarted the phone, signed in again. Was free of prompts for one day, but now I'm receiving them again.
iPhone 7plus, iOS.2.3, no updates. I have and iPad and iMac, but it's not happening on on those.
As far as I can tell there's no setting for downloading free apps without the password. (iTunes doesn't exist anymore).
"App Updates" is turned on, so I suspect that the prompt is coming up when it wants to update apps. As a matter of fact, if I'm really fast, I can sometimes see icons update right after I enter the password. I might turn "App Updates" off just to see if the prompts stop coming when I have to update the apps manually.
Some people have fixed this by signing out of iCloud and back in.
Do you have any updates? Can you change iTunes so you don't need a password for free downloads? Device or computer?
I don't have IOS 13 because my iPad is too old, but check Settings. There might be an option where free downloads do not require a password.
Random Prompts for my AppleID Password
