iPhone keeps asking "Trust this computer and enter a password"

i’m on a iphone 13 pro and for the past 3 days or so my phone just randomly says “trust this computer? enter passcode to trust this computer and start a backup” then i type in my password because it asked so and then it goes away. seconds later it happens again. like literally as i finished that sentence it asked me that. and again. it’s very annoying and i’m not even putting in a computer or trying to connect mine. i have not set up my hotspot. please help i’m so confused:/

You can speedrun Apple's support calls by resetting your watch, iphone and mac to factory defaults and deleting all settings and data. Then log out of every service you have including icloud and spend a couple days rebuilding your devices to what they were before. If that doesn't work, they have nothing. I've never received relevant advice from an Apple support person.

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You can't, and it will only get worse.

Yes it is true. It's happening to me too and I am tired of it. If you don't have a solution to tje issue, don't post comments calling people a liar.

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Please re-post with detail so that someone else can help.

Thank you Lawrence!

I just spent close to 2 hours on Apple support trying to resolve this problem that apparently is actually a "feature" now. Support reps had me reset all my settings on my phone again, too, before escalating my issue to the "Senior Advisors team". So now I've got another couple hours of going through and reconfiguring everything. Very annoying, and apparently I still have to put up with entering my passcode every time I want to backup my phone.

I agree with duerded that this seems like a temporary fix at best, and I hope they come up with something better. (Is the encryption on the backup not already enough to protect sensitive information?) I also hope that Apple gets around to telling their support reps about this change so that everyone else with an iPhone that they connect to their computer doesn't have to go through this as well.

Ken-183 wrote:

(Is the encryption on the backup not already enough to protect sensitive information?)

Yes, the backup encryption should be sufficient, but it is optional. Many users don’t encrypt the backup.

I would have chosen not to encrypt the backup myself, since I generally trust that my computer is as secure as I need it to be, but the Finder warned me that it would not back up my "sensitive personal data" like passwords and health data if I didn't encrypt it. So I always had my backups encrypted, since I wasn't interested in a partial backup.

Thinking about it in this context, this is a good security measure against the problem Apple tried to fix as well. If an unencrypted backup simply does not include sensitive personal data, the risk of data theft is far less.

"Your device remembers the computers you've chosen to trust" is simply not true. Every time - every single time - I connect my iPhone to my MacBook Air, it asks "Trust this computer?" as if it is the first time ever, and requires a device passcode. Resetting Location & Privacy is obviously not a fix for this.

I have the same issue, and I have automatic syncing turned off. I've toggled it on, done the trust this computer/ enter device passcode dance, toggled it off, and done it again. My iPhone never remembers my MacBook Air. It never "remains trusted", as another article puts it. They are Apple ID registered devices, but this makes no difference. If this is a security feature (zero devices are ever trusted), then why couldn't the iPhone "use Face ID" rather than "enter device code" in the "trust this computer" dialog? This has been going on for years and years, and it is ridiculous.

THE MOST ANNOYING PAINFUL DISTRACTING FEATURE OF APPLE IS "TRUST THIS COMPUTER"

EITHER FIX IS REQUIRED !!!!!!

1) USE FACE ID

2) ALLOW TRUST FOR A SET PERIOD OF TIME

3) MAKE IPHONE RECOGNIZE THE COMPUTERS IP OR ID .

4) ALLOW FEATURE TO BE SWITCHED OFF .

5) THROW YOUR PHONE AGAINST THE WALL !

I'm running 17.4.1 and have NO hotspot setup. I still get asked every time to trust my Mac. This is insane. It's the same mac and browser every time, sitting on my desk in my house. Apple, please listen to your frustrated users and fix this.

My first post regarding this issue was removed by apple. Allow me to re-phrase the issue, in a perfectly truthful manner. If you prefer to constantly have to re-trust your connection to your apple account online, then you will love apple phones online phone access. If you adore and prefer NOT to be able to save your login and password on a browser, then you will adore and appreciate apple phones constant reminder to input all your info every...single.. time you log in. YOU CANNOT BYPASS THIS APPLE TRUST REQUEST ON A BROWSER.

I don't think apple really cares. They know what is good for you and you don't. It's called monopoly. This should be a simple fix easily addressable in the next iOS update. The cynicism of my father has finally become me. I guess wisdom really does come with age.

Unfortunately the first 7 layers of apple support only know how to use the nuclear option and always get you to pretty much wipe your device before they escalate a KNOWN issue for them to fix. The intent is to prevent you from getting help.