I updated my daughter's iPhone 7 to 15.7.1 and now every few minutes I get a password prompt that says "enter passcode to start a backup." iCloud backup is disabled! I don't want to back up to the cloud...my internet is too slow. How can I get rid of this? It is super annoying. It keeps the screen lit until I "cancel" it and I am afraid it will just drain the battery unless someone is nearby to cancel it every 5-10 minutes.
I will try but I don't think I will find an answer as this seems like a bug. Why else would it do this? What could be the purpose? I hope there will be a 15.7.2 fix for this fairly soon.
I will try a few more things and update this thread if anything works for me. Thanks to all for the help.
Bug or not bug, it's intrusive, annoying and immensely affects the enjoyment and even basic usage of the phone. My 12 Mini is running the most updated version and suffers NONE of this! How can it not be a bug if my daughter's phone behaves this way and mine doesn't and we are both updated to the newest version? Seriously, something needs to be fixed here no matter what we call it.
The thing that needs to be made clear is that my 12 Mini and my wife's iPhone 12 are NOT experiencing this issue in any way, shape or form...nothing. Can anyone explain that? If what is happening to my iPhone 7 was happening to everyone all the time with all versions of iPhone all over the world, people would be freaking out because it is very annoying and disruptive. It would be enough to move me to Android which I really would not otherwise want to do.
If one believes this is a legitimate feature of iOS then they have either not truly experienced it or they will accept any level of annoyance and disruption to the everyday usage of their phone.
I'm finished discussing this for now but if I discover a solution I will post it here.
I do appreciate all the comments in this discussion, thank you.
Lawrence, I did read all the comments but when "Apple found a vulnerability", I read it as "Apple found a bug"! After all, vulnerabilities are caused by a software loophole, which is, according to Wikipedia, "an ambiguity or inadequacy in a system".
I hope that Apple will fix it so we can again rely on automatic and unattended backups whenever an iPhone/iPad is connected to a trusted Apple computer.
As far as I'm concerned, this closes the discussion.
You are pretty obviously wrong, as I’ve already mentioned, I have 7 devices and only 1 has that problem. All my other devices are on 16.2 and none of those have this issue. Something in some devices sets it off. That’s what a bug is. The OP also has other devices and they don’t have the issue. So obviously this is a common theme.
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I just want to be clear here...you, Lawrence Finch, are being repeatedly prompted to input your passcode up to 20-30 times per day (we've never actually tried to count them)? Because that is what is happening on my iPhone 7. The entire time the phone is in the house it repeatedly asks for the passcode every few minutes. If this is the future of iPhone functionality (I don't actually think so since our other devices are unaffected), then it's just not worth it. I'm trying to be pleasant here but unless you have this problem yourself I don't think you know how annoying and destructive it is to the basic expectation of how a smartphone is supposed to behave. It borders on ridiculous.
When I updated my iPhone 13 to iOS 16.1.2 this bizarre behavior disappeared. The incessant passcode prompts stopped. It now only requests the passcode when I ask iMazing to do the backup. This is the expected operation. Automatic iCloud backups continue to happen without a passcode prompt. It is a relief to finally have the phone work as expected.
You are lucky to have a more recent iPhone 13 with continued support and updates. My iPhone 7 is stuck to 15.7.2 :-(
By the way, since a few iOS updates ago, I experience a similar problem with iBooks: every time I open the app, I have to enter my AppleId and password twice. If for security reasons, asking once would be ok, but twice looks as a bug to me!
This nag happens even when the phone is not connected to the computer.
This nag happens even if that box is unchecked.
It would be even more annoying if your iPhone was hacked and your data stolen.
Extremely helpful, thank you!
All of your questions have been answered in the thread you posted to, so please go back and read it.
I have read it. My guess is that you have not experienced this issue. An answer would be how to stop it.
If you understand the reason for it you will understand that there is no way to stop it.
Disable "enter passcode to start a backup" iPhone Nag 15.7.1
