Why does the App Store ask for password twice and thriceWhat bugs me is that

Any updates on this? Same issue on my daughters account. She is on her second iPad since it started. Assuming it's part of the child account and family sharing, but a PITA for someone younger to have to enter their password 3 times in a row. The approval process should be enough of a safeguard to allow one password request...

There appears to be no answer to this. Apple won't explain why it requests the password twice; they won't explain why they don't store it in Settings; and other people simply reply stupid things like, "Are you sure you typed it correctly?" and "Restart your iPad." Duh. Apple asks for the password twice for EACH AND EVERY Apple thing you try to do: App Store, iTunes, iCloud -- you name it, even when you have it in your Settings. Can someone PLEASE explain why this happens and why Apple is the ONLY company that does this? (It happens on my iPad Pro and iPhone 5s, iOS 10, even when Touch ID is enabled. Why even have this feature if you have to type the password, twice, anyway? How is this helpful?)

And, no, Tapping Settings>iTunes & App Store, then restarting does NOT fix this. As soon as I try to buy something (song, app, you name it), the ID box pops up again, asks for my password, I type it in, it goes away, then pops back up, asking for my password, which i type again -- exactly the same way -- then goes away, then I can buy it.

It's especially annoying when it happens on my Mac. Isn't that why Apple created the Keychain app? Why do that when it doesn't work.

Here are the details on my Mac, since no Apple people respond unless you include it:

OS X El Capitan, 10.11.6; Mac mini (Mid 2011); 2.3 Ghz Intel Core i5; 8GB 1333 Mhz DDR3

iTunes 12.5.1.21

My sons iPod 5th gen has the same issue but his sisters ipod 5 gen doesn't. My kid has to do the same steps you've outlined here. It's so annoying. I've reset his network settings, signed him out and back in to iCloud and App Store and even reset his Apple ID password. Nothing has helped.

Tap Settings > iTunes & App Store then tap the Apple ID then enter the password.

Restart the iPad.

Next time he downloads an app he should not be prompted more than once for the password. Apple is very careful about security.

Hi. On my iPad Air, in the Password Settings for iTunes and apps store, I have enabled Always Require, and Require for free purchases. With those settings, it always asks me exactly once, as expected. If you're already doing that, I wonder if you have something special configured for your Apple ID.

Hi corydchurch. What do you have for iTunes & App Store > Password Settings? I wonder if there's some interaction between those settings and Family Sharing. If you require the password in settings, you may be conflicting with the Family Sharing mechanism.

I have exactly the same problem!

What makes it even weirder is that it only happens on my daughters iPad and not my sons, even though they are both configured the same way as far as I can tell.