My iPhone 12 keeps asking for email password

Yes, absolutely an iOS issue. I removed the accounts and added them back again which seems to resolve it for a few days but it comes back again.

iOS 14 has been the worst update I have ever had; it has caused so many problems and lost data, absolutely fuming but Apple just say, effectively "you fix it" i.e. wipe your device of all data and restore from back up etc

Good to read that I’m not the only one who gets crazy about it. My corporate Exchsnge email account seems not affected, neither my Gmail and imap acchounts, but I need to re-enter my Hotmail (Exchange) passwords (4 accounts) almost 2-4 times a day. Entering password manually works slightly better than using the Authenticator. All happens since I updated from 13.7 to 14.2. I’m regretting the update, but can’t go back unfortunately...

I’m on XS Max and I have the same issues since updating my phone software! Really frustrating... hopefully they’ll sort the issue ASAP as I can’t keep entering my **** passwords every minute.

ive tried the removing off all accounts and re-adding but it still doesn’t work!

I found a temporary workaround for Hotmail (Outlook.com) issues to keep receiving push emails without retyping the PW over and over again: setup Hotmail as imap account, this seems (till now) not affected. Hopefully Apple resolves this annoying problem in the next update!

Receive:

imap server: imap-mail.outlook.com

use SSL: on

Authentication: password

port: 993

Send:

smtp-mail.outlook.com

use SSL: on

authentication: password

port: 587

Hey, indeed I remember disabling the push setting recently to come back to a manual synchronization of my live account (to see if this would increase my battery life).

I think the issue started about that time.

I’ll revert back to the push setting and see if the issue still occurs.

Thanks !

Mine is iPhone 7 and I too get asked to enter my Hotmail password constantly. Getting tired of it can’t get emails nor can delete etc. Trying hard to keep up with technology at the best of times at my age, stop messing with us. Don’t know when it is a hack or a technical problem.

Just adding my voice to the chorus of 'definitely started since iOS 14'.

In my case, happens daily on two separate Outlook email accounts, both synced on the Mail app, on a 2yo iPhone 8, iOS 14.2. Removing and re-adding the accounts didn't help. Outlook app works fine.

Any word from Apple on a resolution?

Same issue since installing iOS 14 on my 11 Max Pro. Only once has it been Microsoft servers as everyone in my household had lost access to different Microsoft online products. Dozens of times now, it’s just been my phone asking for all of my Microsoft email passwords. It doesn’t seem to effect my Gmail accounts so far.

This is ridiculous, I just had this again on my iPad, my husband on his iPad, and after speaking to family, they are also having problems! That’s devices in 4 different households with the same problem! This is an iOS problem and needs to be fixed!

Been on with Apple support and they say it is an issue at Microsoft's end and a workaround is to delete the account on your phone, restart your phone and add the account again and if that doesn't work then they can change some other settings. Going to try this tonight and will post if it works.

Good luck! Look forward to your update confirming if it works or not!

Several have tried removing and re-adding the account, but no mention if they rebooted in between. Hopefully it's as simple as that!

Though I will say, it's not uncommon for companies to point the finger at someone else in defense as a first step... will be interesting to see if that's the case here, or if the steps truly resolve the issue.

I am Microsoft Partner and have seen nothing that end to say it's their problem but I do know that Apple doesn't give other vendors a lot of time to ensure things work before they release a system update!

It's amazing that all the fixes they have suggested is at Apple's end....

I don’t care who’s problem it is and whether MS or Apple solves it. As a user I only know the issue arose after the iOS 14 update and with accounts that are setup with Outlook.com Exchange (imap and pop mail seem not affected).

So apparently there is an Exchange characteristic that iOS 14 doesn’t like.

At the moment it’s my (and many other user’s) problem having to re-enter those passwords over and over again.

So Apple and Microsoft engineers: please pick up the phone, talk to each other and solve it. The problem has negative impact on both your good company reputations. The risk is that people buy Androids and switch to Yahoo or Gmail.

Agreed!! Absolutely an IOS14 problem. Happens to me every single day. Both; iphone and Ipad.

I used to happen on some previous ios but once you put the password it stopped. This one doesn’t seem to be fixed yet.

apple problem i would say.

So, I posted on Twitter and they replied with;

Thanks for reaching out, we can help. First, let’s try closing the mail app and restarting to see if that resolves the issue. If not, follow the steps “Remove your email account and set it up again” in this article next: s.apple.com/dE0b6U6G4A

tried it today, let’s see what happens tomorrow :)