ios 14 missing password for email acount

I'm having the same problem as everyone else. After working fine for many years, all of a sudden, when i try to download email I get the dreaded, "No password provided for <myaccount>. Please go to Mail Account Settings and enter a password." However, when I do so I see my password is already entered. Trying to set up email on another of my devices yields the same message. If Apple can't support email, perhaps they should refund a large part of the iPhone's cost to their customers. Or fix this issue in the next update.

Thank you so much!!! Was going crazy trying to figure this out. Got caught in the Juspay dark web data release and am resetting all my passwords and my iPhone was being a little bitchy about my email I thought until I found your saving grace bit of info!

Thanks again!

Creating a secure mail key and using that key as my email password worked for me. Thank you so much. This has drove me crazy for the past four months. I have looked everywhere off and on and tried so many things. Thanks again.

After wasting way too much time on this, I have found that if the password for the email address has a full stop in it (so i assume any character would work) then the email address works fine. If the password is only letters I am unable to add the email address.

.... all good if you don't have multiple devices to change the passord on .... not good when you need to change password on lots of devices.

Had the same problem... the fix was to go to settings, general, Date & Time and reset by turning off automatically, then turning it back on. Removing the email account and re=adding it. Now works ...

So I can’t seem to fix this. My sky email account has been used on outlook iOS forever. Now saying no password entered when there is. I have tried deleting the account. When I try to re-add still tells me there is no password when I can blatantly see it. I’ve updated or latest iOS. Any ideas?

I have the exact same issue. Spent many hours with apple support who suggested I restore my phone from iTunes. 6 hours later with a restored phone same problem. If anyone has a fix please post. Problem is with imap onto google mail for me.

I connected my iPhone to my macbook pro. I went into System Preferences on my macbook pro, manually update Date & Time, resync'd my iphone with macbook, fixed my problem... I too spent hours on the phone with Apple Support... several different 'specialist' the last specialist suggest this ... only on the phone with her for 5 minutes.... hope it works for you.

Hi Cuffarodavid, thanks for trying to help - really appreciated. However, I can not find any way on iTunes for Windows to reset the phones time. I have tried resetting the time on the phone itself but that does not fix the problem. Anyone got any other thoughts?

I manage my own server which has 2 IMAP email accounts that I use.

Recently I change the email password on the server for both accounts.

My iPad uses the iPad version of iOS.

I changed the password on my iPad to match the new password on my server,

Email on the iPad works fine.

I also have an iPhone 11 using iOS 14.4

I changed the password on my iPhone.

Alas, I keep getting the same error message that others have reported in this thread.

My phone also has a Comcast email account.

That account does email OK.

Of course the password has not been changed on this account.

It is off that email via my server works on my iPad but does not work on my iPhone.

I went into settings > general and fiddled with date/time. That did not help.

I will try connecting to iTunes on my PC and playing with date/time

I had this issue and it was sending me insane. The problem turned out to be associated with an overloaded email box on the server causing a problem with changing a password. I deleted half the emails and it worked fine. Might not be the issue for others but just adding it here in case it helps some.

I started having this problem three days ago. I have two AOL email accounts on my iPad and phone. After updating to the latest system software, I started receiving the missing password error message on one of the email accounts in both devices. I verified in settings that the password is still there. I reentered it anyway but I still receive the error message. I also tried the suggestion of changing the date and time in settings but this did not work for me. I don’t understand why I’m only having trouble with one email and not both. Luckily I can access the missing email information under the AOL app but it’s a lot simpler to do this under the basic email account. Does anyone have any good suggestions how I can fix this? Thanks in advance!

Same. I’ve made no changes whatsoever but suddenly AOL mail will not load on any of my 3 Apple devices (Phone and 2 IPads) as of this past weekend 2/08/2021. Says no password entered but going to mail/settings/account and yup there it is. I’ve even deleted and re-entered but still will not load. I can manually retrieve the emails by using web browser and accessing via their website with the same information. That’s a hassle. I do use ATT and someone mentioned them changing the way passwords are authenticated some something I didn’t quite understand. However, my yahoo and gmail accounts appear to be working fine so I’m not sure how a change with ATT would affect email from AOL but not other email servers. Help please?

Thank you! I had to go through this twice - once to select the iPhone mail app from the drop down menu for my iPhone and once to select the iPad mail app choice for my iPad. I was hoping once I did this for my iPhone, it would automatically sync up the iPad. It didn’t. I was worried after syncing the iPad that the iPhone would then not work. Luckily it did.

Again, thank you!!!

Upgraded to 14.4 and started having this problem. Using Gmail with my own domain. So when creating account I use the manual method. This is where I started getting the "no password" error. Again this has been working for years. Interesting I created an account using the Gmail account option. I cannot send an email with a from address of my private domain but I do not get the "no password" error and can send and receive emails. Please fix or provide a workaround. Have tried many of the suggestions on this thread but none are working.