Family share approval keeps requesting icloud password

Hello, I just started having the same problem today. It is very very irritating!!! Did anyone ever find a solution to this problem?

I have exactly the same problem on my mac and my iPhone. It used to work on my iPhone. Now it doesn't work at all anywhere. I've tried resetting my password and signing out and into iCloud on both devices. Very, very irritating.

I Have same problem!

To add to a previous reply. I was having this today whilst at work. Turns out my wife had already approved. I couldn't approve or decline the request - either option re-prompted for my password.

I've deleted the notification - was extremely frustrating!

Have you tried signing out of icloud and then back in again, you might want to restart in between.

I'm having the same problem. Didn't have it before. I did the upgrade to 8.4. Maybe that was it? I have reset my password. Restarted. no change.

I'm having the exact same issue. So frustrating! I can sign into icloud in settings with our problem, sign in to icloud on a PC, but authorizing a family purchase - NOPE! I do have the latest IOS 8.4 and never had this issue before.

I've restarted, reset, logged out, logged in - nothing resolves this issue.

C'mon Apple - please fix this ASAP. We can pay you for songs our family want to purchase so I'd think this would be important to you.

Ok, its April 2016 and I have IOS 9.3.1 and my child just requested a app on his family device where I approve apps they purchase. I select approve on my new Iphone 6S and it requests my icloud password and it does not work, it keeps asking for my password. I make sure I am typing it correct and still to no avail, no luck. I log into my icloud account on my MACbook and it works fine. I use the same password and user name in my Mac so no 2 separate accounts. This is frustrating..

I am having this same problem. I am trying to approve from an iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), running 10.10.5. I agree this doesn't seem like a hardware issue. Has anyone found a solution.

I struggled for hours with the Family Sharing Approval process repeatedly asking for my iCloud password. I eventually contacted Apple Support and was about to do an iPhone reset (wiping everything off the phone and thus essentially starting with the equivalent of a new clean iphone). I had tried everything up to that point:
-closing all apps and powering the phone off/on
-logging out of iCloud and restarting the phone

-changing my iCloud password
-re-entering all my personal and charge card data, etc, etc.

I backed up the phone and was about to wipe it clean, when the support representative said "let's try one last thing, go into 'Settings>iTunes & App Stores' and 'Sign out', then sign back in again. "
That solved the problem!

I went to 'Notifications' found the request for Approval from my child, I 'Approved' the purchases, was asked for my iCloud password (once only) and the purchase transaction was processed properly.

I had assumed up to that point that logging out of iCloud vs. iTunes would have been one and the same thing since they both share a common log in and access all the same Apple ID server information. However, apparently this is not true. Some people have claimed that this problem can be solved by logging out of iCloud... and since the sign-in message that is the cause of this problem states you need to enter your "iCloud password", this logically makes sense. However the sign in message is a 'red-herring'. That message is a programming dialog error. It should read 'Enter your iTunes ID password'.
It is not the iCloud password or ID that is the problem, it is in fact the iTunes App that is stuck in a login loop.

Simply 'sign-out' (Settings>iTunes &App Stores>click on your 'Apple ID'>Sign Out) and you can then 'sign-in' to iTunes again using your Apple ID and your problem should be solved.

The solution is hidden at Request and make purchases with Ask to Buy - Apple Support:

If you decline the request or don't make the purchase, it will be deleted after 24 hours, and the child will need to make the request again.

So what's going on here is that you're trying to approve an expired request, and it's failing, over and over, without notice or explanation.

I had the same frustrating issue. Logging out and back in did not help.

I confirmed that my wife had already approved the app that my son had requested.

this made the request old, and so approval failed.

Would have been nice if pop up alert said "app already approved" or the my request notice just disappear if the wife already approved.

Just sayin'

(ios 10, 6sPlus)

Thanks for sharing! I was having the same exact problem and this solved the issue.

"go into 'Settings>iTunes & App Stores' and 'Sign out', then sign back in again."

Nice easy fix for a very annoying problem.