My iPhone suddenly asked me for passwords on my 2 iCloud accounts I use. I have not changed anything in either account.
This has also occurred in all my Email clients acorss my 2 macbooks with these 2 accounts in Mail (both) & Mail Pilot on 1. Plus, the same has occurred on my iPad.
I can however login though icloud.com.
I checked the Apple iCloud system status screen & all systems seems to be ok?
I started to get errors this morning. Now only iCloud.com through Safari and Mac Mail on my MBP (Mvrx) will see mail. My main eMail client Entourage in 10.5.8 on my PPC Tower will not work and gets the password error every time it goes out for the mail. I have had problems of one kind of another since Apple did the big iCloud switch.
I wonder if the credit card hackers got bored with Target and turn on Apple?
I started to get errors this morning. Now only iCloud.com through Safari and Mac Mail on my MBP (Mvrx) will see mail. My main eMail client Entourage in 10.5.8 on my PPC Tower will not work and gets the password error every time it goes out for the mail. I have had problems of one kind of another since Apple did the big iCloud switch.
I wonder if the credit card hackers got bored with Target and turn on Apple?
Samr problem here on my PPC Quicksilver running Mac OS X 10.5.8
Same here. Everything is running fine in Mail app on Macbook Pro OS X 10.9, but NOT working on neither ipad or iphone where it usually works fine.
Won't work on my PC's account.
I get a message saying my password or username is not good. Changed password via icloud.com, still able to access mail from the icloud.com interface and from the mail app on my macbook, but no other device that usually works is working now...
Tried my friends icloud account on my PC and it works...So is the problem related to only some of the @me & @icloud emails and not all of them?
I can still access icloud.com and it works.
I just called Apple support as the system status screen was all showing green!? They said there's a server down which they currently trying to fix. I advised the problem to the guy, so they do know about this. Although it has been pretty much most of the day for me.
Thanks emkai for posting that. I was just about to call myself. So good to know they know about this problem. Thx again.
No problem. Mail appears to be working for me now on my MacBook, but iPhone & iPad are still having issues. It's a bit strange it seems to be hardware linked too, but I'm sure/hope(!) it'll be fixed soon enough...
My mail is working fine on my macbook pro. But like some of you - my mobile device(not ios device) cannot authenticate. I put my password in a million times but now I see there is a server issue. I was going crazy
This has been driving me crazy all day on both my iPad and iPhone so it's good to know Apple is aware of this. Hopefully it will get fixed soon
I was also having this problem, but with Outlook 2011. This issue seems to have resolved itself as Outlook has been working this morning.
I had a similar issue. I could login to my iCloud account using my AppleID but the same password wouldn't work when I used my (non-Apple) email client to try to log in to retrieve my email. I tried resetting my iCloud password...didn't work. I even spent 25+ minutes on the phone with Apple Support today which only resulted in them telling me to use the Apple Mail app instead.
I finally found the solution tonight when looking through the Manage your Apple ID site. You need to create an App-Specific password for your email client:
Apple will generate a password that you'll use when setting up your email client. Use this new password instead of your AppleID password.
You should now see a section for App-Specific Passwords -- this is what you dont see. How to fix this?
iCloud email password not working
