After upgrading to ios 14.0 (and problem still occurs after 14.0.1), I am having issues accessing my IMAP email server - getting the error 'missing password'. Have checked the settings and the correct password is there... No issues prior to the upgrade.
Anyone else having similar issues?
SMTP is working OK (different account - username & password) - I can send emails, just cant receive them
iPhone SE, iOS 14
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.
Cannot get mail. Message says "no password provided for AOL" and when I check settings the PW is there. I have not changed the PW.
Tamarindby
Same problem will not accept my password
spoke to Apple service
they don’t know how to fix it either does anybody know really frustrating
The steps in this comment resolved the issue for me!
This worked for me too when I had the same problem 🙂
Same problem here just upgraded to iOS 14.01 this morning and my email stopped working, password is correct , I deleted the account and reinstalled it and still same issue. My emails don’t show and the erros message “no password provided”
For me, and had tried this many times on earlier releases of iOS and hadn’t worked - 14.2 was the first.
I didn’t try and fix the account, rather set up a totally new account in iOS, but also had changed my password on the imap server. (My imap server was Apple! So you would have thought it should have worked from the outset..).
Once I had a new account working, i tried to set the password on the old one - and it still didn’t work - so looks like once broke, always broke... once happy the new one was working ok, just deleted my old account (in iOS)
dont know if that helps?
Hi, my friend is having the same 'no password provided' problem with her @bellsouth.net account. I do realize that this is a deprecated email service, but she has established it for her business and does not wish to change it. It was working fine until yesterday evening, which was the last time any emails showed up on her phone. On her non-Apple laptop, the emails are all current.
She is also current at 14.2, we have restarted the phone, deleted the account, re-added the account and still no email sent nor received. I am her Apple Tech guru, so I am here to represent her iPhone problem.
iPhone SE 2020
iOS 14.2
Thank you for your help, most appreciated!
Use AT&T's utility on their website to generate a secure keyword and follow the instructions for implementation.
It's clear, concise and simple. My only remaining question had been why it took the better part of a year after
AT&T implemented their security changes for it to fail authentication when attempting access from an iPhone.
I'm curious but not to the point of wanting to pull back the curtain or dig through the internet to find out.
https://www.att.com/support/article/email-support/KM1240308/
Jerry
I had this same problem setting up Apple Mail for a new workplace (MS 365) email account. Entered in the required credentials to setup IMAP and verified that my password fields were not blank. For me, the problem was that I needed to enable SSL ("UseSSL")! Wasn't sure if it was only needed for the outgoing or incoming server so I just enabled it for both and the problem went away. Hope this helps.
You are a life saver!!! This worked. Basically I have to create a secured key and use that key as my password for my mail app setting. Then, viola, mails start showing up!!!!
thank you very much for your help!
I upgraded to 14.2. Deleted the mail account. Recreated a new account. Same problem. It just kept saying password missing or not defined and asked that I go to account mail to enter the password.
I was just having this issue with an ATT email. Deleting the email and choosing yahoo as the email server worked for me. Try this if you haven’t hopefully it works!
ios 14 missing password for email acount
