Random Prompt for password for an account I dont know

I have been searching for an answer for this for a while, best I found was if you have ever in the dark and distant past downloaded music as a torrent or anywhere else from someone else who purchased it and shared it with you, if you go into your songs list on the iTunes (music app) on your PC or Mac and sort it by "purchased" you will see the rogue email address and delete these songs, it should cure it.

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I put a post up yesterday and was redirected to this post. I have a new 11 pro max, with a new series 5 watch - same as you guys getting requests to some unrecognised Apple ID - mine is for “xxxxxxxx@mac.com”. Am very interested in any resolution you guys come up with - it drove me insane yesterday the amount of times it requested a password.

Hi. Please let us know if you get a fix for this.

im having the same issue but mine is asking me for two different id’s.

I thought I fixed it a week ago by going through my entire list of apps that were ever downloaded, and ‘hiding’ the old ones I don’t use (since you can’t delete them from your account).

Then I reset my password, I reset warnings (when plugged into iTunes/finder) I have edited settings in my Apple ID like removing or deauthorizing computers etc. I deleted any app that I wasn’t using that I have had for a long time from my phone just incase. It stopped asking me and I thought I fixed it... then it came back yesterday and would not go away, every time I hit cancel on my watch, it popped up on my phone, I click not now then it comes back on my watch... it was relentless!!

but it always starts on my watch first. I don’t know if that’s just a coincidence or it’s directly related to my watch.

my phone has recently been backed up to iTunes, reset and restored (trying to resolve other iOS 13 bugs) prior to that I had reset all settings on my phone and set them all back how I like them manually (again, trying to fix bugs). This iOS 13 is horrendous for bugs, and considering we aren’t receiving any more updates lately it seems Apple is happy with the current version? I have to restart my phone to update apps, if I try manually it just doesn’t work, I tried to download an app yesterday and when I clicked get, the little wheel just spun around for ages, wouldn’t even prompt for my Touch ID, closed and tried again, but I had to restart my phone to get it to work... I’m not sure if that is related to this issue as in the phone is confused as to who’s account is on the phone?

sorry for the long post, just wanted to add every fix I’ve tried so far

I am having exactly the same issue!

Watch and then the phone asks for apple id passwords for accounts i've never heard of... There is a couple that it loops through, "mackey_2311@hotmail.com" being one of them. I have tried several of the things listed above and still have the same issue to this day. Help! :(

I’m having this issue also. I’m on 2nd tier support and we erased my watch today, set up as a brand new watch - no fix to the problem I’m still getting random prompts for unrecognised Apple ID’s to the point I have now stopped using my watch

Not yet. I’m going on holidays at the end of the week so I’ll probably do that when I get back, but resetting the settings was bad enough, I swear my keyboard had to relearn the way I type/talk because autocorrect was terrible after I did that. But you’re right, that would be the last attempt before getting a whole new Apple ID and starting from scratch. Which I don’t really care if I have to pay for things again, but I don’t want to loose cloud data associated with each app, subscriptions and any apps like pages, numbers and keynote that I received with my Mac mini under my current Apple ID. Not to mention my Apple Music subscription, that will have to start all over again. And since Apple don’t allow transferring between Apple id’s, I’m screwed there.

had the support request for this one. chatted and spoken to 3 people.

just ran a diagnostics remotely and been promised that they escalate it to developers and will contact me within 2 days.

opened Case ID: 101001094989

I don’t have the music.app on my phone. I’ve never purchased with this Apple ID. I have spoken with Some Retail store employees and they seem to think. “It’s a crappy bug that has happened before that will likely be resolved with a software update”

Have you had any resolve for this yet? I’m having the same problem and it’s been going on for months! Sometimes I get the requests all day and end up turning my watch off and not wearing it, very frustrating!