iPhone keeps asking for Outlook password

Exactly it's the same, as outlook.com is one of the email providers listed they should be updated with the latest IOS not the contrary. Having said that when I used to use outlook I solved the problem changing the password

I wrote earlier of update to 17.3 and refreshing account settings in the Mail app.

That worked fine until it didn’t. Less than 12hours and back to requests for Outlook password every 10 seconds.

Back to this forum for advice. My how the page count has grown here, overnight!

Don’t want Edge or another app to fix something that shouldn’t be broken.

Have used the Network Reset with success this time. Hooray for that.

Agree with others here that the big kid’s cannot play well together in the mighty tech sandbox. Probably never will. It will always be a case of ‘mine is superior to yours’. Unfortunately they continue to evolve away from ‘customer service’. It is almost extinct I think.

So Bleeping Computer has this. Microsoft investigating issue that arose Jan 23/24 related to signing into their mail..

This would be that day after 17.3. All very coincidental. At least some one is investigating.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-outlook-apps-cant-connect-to-outlookcom/

It is a start.

@nopainogain You have to use an app password with ios mail app.

entered my password manually for couple of times and its fixed.

Same here, I have done the following:

1) Re-input the password several times. It works for a half a day and stops working asking for the password.

2) deleted the accounts (my live and hotmail accounts both the same issue), rebooted my iphone and recreated them. Same issue.

3) Contacted Microsoft, spent about an hour with them. It is not MS issue. IT IS APPLE ISSUE, once more apple creates update without proper testing and creates more problem.

Please stop saying it MS issue, it is the new update. Both my iphone and IPAD have the same issue.

This is the only solution that has worked.

From an earlier poster.

"Adding the account as “other” in the (Apple) mail app.

Incoming Mail Server

Host Name: outlook.office365.com

Username: <email address>

Password: <app password>

Outgoing Mail Server

Host Name: smtp-mail.outlook.com

Username: <email>

Password: <app password>"

This has been happening to me using my iPad, and through MULTIPLE iOS updates and versions! I don't use Outlook per se, but my email is configured for my "xxx@live.com" account. To fix "temporarily" - I click CANCEL, the message goes away and everything works fine. About 2 or 3 days later, the message is back and "the FIX" still works fine. This is also happening to a friend of mine who also utilizes a "xxx@live.com" account. I can't believe that there's no way to stop the message, and clicking CANCEL is the only fix!

I do not believe this is an iPhone / iOS issue. I did not upgrade to version 17.3 but the day it was release, and Apple's backend was changed, this message started appearing ..... AGAIN.

This scenario has repeated for each of the 17 releases, regardless of what you use on your i'ish device.

Apple has to fix. Potentially, as one user suggested, an update to your device app might fix. I know I'm certainly getting tired of this. I installed the Outlook mail app to use when I cannot count on one of the largest, if not the largest, tech companies in the world to deliver a functioning mail app.

It’s not true! The prompt is just a ghost!

For the first couple of weeks this happened, I carefully entered my password every time. After a while, I said screw this, and just canceled.

i can still get my mail. It keeps happening, but I still cancel and still get all my mail.

When you go into Settings, Mail, Accounts, if it really needed your password, there would be a prompt on that account. There is none.

is this a virus? Sure acts like one!!

Easier, but still driving me nuts.

Does anyone know if Apple monitors these threads. If not we may as well be talking to a wall and we need to change our approach. We need to call Apple.

That is interesting, it works when I turn my wifi off, but back to issues when the wifi is back on. I was blaming MS before, but not so much now...

I as well, very frustrating. My work around is to just forward my Outlook mail to my iCloud address, no problem now but I should not have to do this.

I should have added that my workaround is to just tap cancel. I do not re-enter password every time.

I hit cancel, it might challenge me again, I hit cancel and my mail syncs.

Can you check the email configuration settings? Because maybe the automatic picked up an authentication method or a port that's not quite right