iPhone email "No password provided" error

If you have a problem with your iCloud account just delete it and add it back.

Given the comments about useless advice and "busy work" that don't fix anything I reverted to installing the AOL application and use that for e-mail. Seems to work just fine. I've kept the old Mail app installed, hoping there is a fix some day, but will not hold my breath.

There are several posts in this thread with solutions for AT&T-hosted accounts. Here are links to 3 of them:

• This one, a “Helpful” near the top of every page→https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252056513?answerId=255028444022#255028444022

Others:

• https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252056513?answerId=255295666022#255295666022
• https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252056513?answerId=255028444022#255028444022

Thank you. I deleted the account and then added it back.

I'm new to this platform and didn't see all the pages of the discussion. The links sent me back to earlier posts without instructions. Anyway, I got there. Thanks for replying right to my email (which I could read on the laptop).

Start with the post marked Solved at the top of this page. If following the instructions in that link doesn’t help you resolve the problem post back for more ideas.

It is a problem with your email provider, not with your iPhone. You need to contact them for support.

Likewise I get the error 'cannot get mail' 'no password provided for xxxx'

Several odd things - NOTE: I have two of my own domain email accounts in addition to my @me.com account:

• the @me email is working fine
• when I setup my first personal domain email I had to tell my iPhone to trust my email provider's certificate since for whatever reason Apple feels the Certificate is invalid (it is a VALID certificate just Apple seems to have issues with it). I had to do this Trust override on my Mac too so I was expecting this problem
• No problems so far everything works
• but WHEN I add my SECOND email address from my domain (I use two different emails addresses at my personal domain), it is only then that I start to get complaints from Mail about 'no password provided', and get this it is not complaining the password is missing from the SECOND email address, it complains the password is missing from the FIRST email address. Remember per previous bullet the FIRST email address at my domain was working FINE before I added the second email.
• Rubbish performance on Apple's part
• Here's an ironic kicker, BOTH my email addresses actually work on both my iPhone and my Mac both incoming and outgoing. It just throws this error occasionally even though it actually works ;-) Like I say seems pretty sketchy on Apple's part as I have spent hours and hours trying to figure this out

The solution in this article is ineffective. Using IOS 14.2 on my iPad and iPhone. I have had to delete and recreate the mail account already because of certificate errors. Now the system keeps telling me that no password is provided. This is not a password error or an account settings error on my part as I am using the exact same information on my MacBook Pro which is still able to send and receive emails. I believe that the fact my MacBook can send and receive should be sufficient evidence that there is not a problem with my provider. This issue with failing to send and receive on my iOS devices popped up in the last 2 days and no matter how many times I delete and recreate the account, the message persists about no password provided. When I have provided an incorrect password, it tells me the password is incorrect. Here I have provided the password, yet it tells me it is not present.

Having the same issue since the latest update 14.4. Everything was working fine, update phone and one of 5 email addresses is getting the error message. I have deleted it and reloaded it multiple times to no avail. Apple supports go to bs article that they keep posting is quite disheartening to say the least. This email account is still working fine on multiple devices just not the updated phone.

Apple needs to get this fixed.

Super irritated as well having the same exact problem. Support said that they would call me back and walk me through a process where I actually had to connect my laptop and do this whole extravagant reset. This should be a simple fix but it’s not, and how unfortunate it is. I now have to use The actual email app from my provider just to get access.

This same problem arose for me when I changed my iCloud password. Despite deleting my mail app and reinstalling it, as well as signing out of iCloud on my iPhone, I keep getting the error message that "No password provided for 'iCloud'.

The above link does not address, nor solve the issue.

Any guidance on how to get iCloud emails back on my iPhone would be much appreciated.

I've done the same. When the issue happened on my Mac, I finally gave up and called Apple Support. After screen sharing on both my iPhone and my Mac, my Support agent 'escalated' my issue to the 'engineers' because it appears to be an iCloud account issue and not an error on my end. I just placed my call, yesterday, and have a follow up call scheduled for Thursday.

I'll follow up after I speak with Support again later in the week.

*UPDATE*

I woke up this morning and my iPhone was receiving mail again. I didn't do any updates last night, didn't make any changes, the mail was just there. Same with the Mail client on my iMac. I had been in discussion with Apple Support for the past 4 weeks, providing screen and video shots from both my phone and my computer. Each week, Apple Support would call me and tell me their engineers were still working on it.

I wish I could tell you how I "fixed" it, but it certainly seems like it was an issue on Apple's end that was effecting my account.

Thanks for reaching out to the Apple Support Communities! It sounds like you have an issue receiving emails on your iPhone. Check out this article If you can't receive email on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. This article will give you additional steps you can try for issues receiving emails on your device.

cordless vacuum cleaner

Yes I have read previous complaints and tried their suggestions. I have now quit using the phone app and I am using the AOL app to read my mail. I don’t consider that a solution to this problem but at least I can get my mail from my phone.