How do I change my email password in iOS 10?

I Found this. If you log on to the Yahoo site directly ( don't use Apple mail) and navigate to Recent activity, in there you will find "Apps connected to your account". Here it will list your Apple os - Mac OS or iOS. But it doesn't give the device, so would it be possible for any Apple owner to access someone's Yahoo account ( especially if they had access previously from the stolen passwords)? Why doesnt Yahoo require the Password field in mail settings?

Wow - it would have been nice if Apple had explained the change. We've now got balloons, confetti, and lasers galore in iMessage. But to change your password (which 500 million people were just told to do), oops sorry. Come on Apple!

Why would Apple explain a change that they did not do?

This is apparently Yahoo's configuration Preset for the Mail App doing this.

I just confirmed the change is automatic on iOS. Changed my password on yahoo.com directly on my computer, and immediately got the e-mail about the change on my iPhone without having to do anything.

Access to the account was not disturbed.

As to it being compromised, unless your iOS devices is also compromised, your account is not compromised.

You've changed your password. The fact the iOS device changes automatically does not mean the people that got the data from Yahoo servers now also have your new password. They don't.

Hi Phil,

Do you have more than one iOS device linked to your Yahoo account? If so could you log on to the Yahoo site directly ( don't use Apple mail) and navigate to Recent activity, in there you will find "Apps connected to your account". Here it will list your Apple os - Mac OS or iOS. Can you see if it just lists one iOS device or whether it lists two (or however many) iOS devices?

Thanks

Phil0124 wrote:

This is apparently Yahoo's configuration Preset for the Mail App doing this.

I thought you said Yahoo and Gmail do the same auto password change without user intervention?

Yeah, not sure why it has no option to change the password. Seems Yahoo and Gmail share this though.

Phil0124 wrote:

I just confirmed the change is automatic on iOS. Changed my password on yahoo.com directly on my computer, and immediately got the e-mail about the change on my iPhone without having to do anything.

Access to the account was not disturbed.

As to it being compromised, unless your iOS devices is also compromised, your account is not compromised.

So tell us, how do you stop criminals who steal your phone from accessing your mailbox? That is a serious security problem.

I see the same behavior -- updated my Yahoo Mail password via Safari in El Capitan. Went to my iPhone with iOS 10 and the mail is being fetched just fine. Is there something happening (maybe via Continuity) that Apple didn't tell us about? The whole reason to change your password is to limit access -- how did my iPhone magically update my password with a 3rd party service???

You're missing a step before getting to "Recent Activity". Sign in to Yahoo webmail. Click (or mouse over) your username, Account Info. Then click Recent Activity on the left pane. You'll see all active sign in and you can sign them out.

That is a security problem. Yahoo mail app for Android automatically signed me out of my mailbox when I changed my password. I can't access the mailbox content until I type in the new password. That's how it should work.

Hi ShagCA, yes a definite security risk. I cant find recent activity when looking at Yahoo webmail on iPhone.

Richard Mac User wrote:

Hi Phil,

Do you have more than one iOS device linked to your Yahoo account? If so could you log on to the Yahoo site directly ( don't use Apple mail) and navigate to Recent activity, in there you will find "Apps connected to your account". Here it will list your Apple os - Mac OS or iOS. Can you see if it just lists one iOS device or whether it lists two (or however many) iOS devices?

Thanks

I do, iPad Pro and iPhone, but I only have one entry in the "Apps connected to your account" section.

The iPad however issued his message when I opened the mail App:

Which now confuses me more. Why did it update on my iPhone but not my iPad? It also offers me the opportunity to change the password. Which is even more confusing. But its not working. It sent me an email that said Yahoo had prevented the login. For some reason the Mail app on iPad is less secure than on iPhone. Don't quite understand that,

I deleted the account, and recreated it, and it worked fine. Stranger and stranger.

I then got a new entry in Recent Activity, with an iPad looking icon, and an option to sign out the device.

Richard Mac User wrote:

I thought you said Yahoo and Gmail do the same auto password change without user intervention?

I said they shared the same inability to change the password from the iPhone's settings, I never said Gmail auto changed it.

So tell us, how do you stop criminals who steal your phone from accessing your mailbox? That is a serious security problem.s

Based in what Yahoo's settings. I would assume removing the iOS devices from the "Apps connected to your Account" section in the Yahoo website, and signing them out from the Recent Activity list there too would take care of that.

how did my iPhone magically update my password with a 3rd party service???

Somehow having the device or App connected to the account allows said device and App to receive the updated security certificate from Yahoo directly.

That again doesn´t say the device just the OS. But the most important info is Apps connected to your account.

Can anyone with more than one iOS or more than one Mac device linked to their yahoo mail confirm whether this lists multiple devices (iOS or Mac) or just one.

Thanks

Hi Phil

"I do, iPad Pro and iPhone, but I only have one entry in the "Apps connected to your account" section.

The iPad however issued his message when I opened the mail App:

Cannot Get Mail

The user name or password for "Yahoo" is incorrect."

That is strange. If others who have multiple iOS devices and all their devices can still access email (unlike you with your iPad), yet on Yahoo iOS is only listed once I think the advice would be to delete the devices on Yahoo and then re log on. Do you agree?

Yes, I would agree with that.

Remove the iOS entry and re - log in on the iOS devices.

Phil0124 wrote:

The iPad however issued his message when I opened the mail App:

Which now confuses me more. Why did it update on my iPhone but not my iPad? It also offers me the opportunity to change the password. Which is even more confusing. But its not working. It sent me an email that said Yahoo had prevented the login. For some reason the Mail app on iPad is less secure than on iPhone. Don't quite understand that,

Mail app on the iPad is more secure if it stops you from accessing the mailbox content after changing the password. I'm guessing it takes a while for the iPhone to realize that the (old) password is no longer good.

Phil0124 wrote:

So tell us, how do you stop criminals who steal your phone from accessing your mailbox? That is a serious security problem.s

Based in what Yahoo's settings. I would assume removing the iOS devices from the "Apps connected to your Account" section in the Yahoo website, and signing them out from the Recent Activity list there too would take care of that.

I know that does but iOS seems to help criminals by automatically changing the Mail password. If all the observations in this thread is correct (that is, iOS automatically changes the password for users), I would call that a serious security issue.

My iPad is only iOS 10 device and it exhibited the automatic password update behavior.

One iPod Touch is iOS 6 and it does not update BUT displays password fields to update easily.

Have another iPT with iOS 7 and will get to that one later.