How do I change my email password in iOS 10?

An update for those having the same question ...

Changing the password on iOS 10.3.3 hasn't changed; you must delete the account from the iDevice. Once deleted, recreate the account.

A few tips:

1. Turn off (disable) all of the options so as to cleanup notes, calendars, etc. before deleting the account
2. If you only need Mail and Notes, you can use the "Other" account type. Keep in mind that IMAP will be preferred over POP.
3. Changing your mail account password at your service provider (GMail, Outlook aka Hotmail, etc.) does not automagically change the password on your device. That would defeat the purpose of securing compromised accounts.
4. Since most devices use PUSH/PULL (and background refresh), it's likely that a password change will not impact opened sessions until the next client-server negotiation occurs ... which is usually within a few minutes on a solid Internet connection.

Cheers,

Re: How do I change my email password in iOS 10?

msully

I believe this is what's happening now (though can't find any confirmation from Apple):

In the past, you would enter your password and the iPhone would store is locally in some kind of reversibly encrypted form. When it needed to access your email it would un-encrypt your password and send it to the server. Storing your password is a security hole.

What probably happens now is that when you first create your account (or when you first upgrade to the new client), the iphone does not store your password but sends it directly to Yahoo and gets back what's called a token (actually probably two - an access token and a refresh token but that's a different discussion).

The iPhone stores this token which is only usable by it and when it accesses Yahoo it sends this token in place of a password. When you change your password on Yahoo, the iPhone doesn't care because Yahoo 'knows' the iPhone had the right password when it first got its token, so the iPhone continues to work. If you no longer want your iPhone to be able to access your Yahoo account, go to your Yahoo account and delete the entry for the iPhone.

One issue is that Yahoo help claims you can delete apps under the Account Security menu but you actually have to go to Recent Activity, as another user posted. Also, instead of using the name of your iphone it just calls the app 'iOS' which will be confusing if you have multiple Apple devices connected.

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I believe something like what this user posts is probably correct.

Isn't that the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard?! Apple blames Yahoo and Yahoo info online blames Apple...in the meantime, customers are inconvenienced greatly. So Apple told me EVERY time I change Yahoo password I have to delete the email account, reset it up, then wait for all emails to return. It's obvious this is on Apples shoulders as I've had sbc email for YEARS and only a couple years ago with Apples update did this problem appear. Thank you Apple.

So based on all the replies and my own experience (with gmail imap ) - if you change your password or (possibly) any other setting in your email server's settings you have to delete and "re-add" the account on your iPhone.

Huh? Yikes, how ridiculous.

My situation is even more strange - I can't send any gmail imap emails with attachments - yet I've changed NOTHING. Which means IOS 10.3.2 has changed something for me! So I deleted the account and re-added it. Voila, attachments send now.

Thanks Apple - although I didn't really need the extra attention that was gangs of fun (rude gesture).

In fact⁉.

Somethings need not change if already perfected. Apple needs to be careful before they phase out like Blackberry.

They need to listen to customers as well Samsung is greatly leading the market now.

Even Bold / Italics / Underline has a bug with Paste also displaying in the sub pop up menu.

Richard-2009 wrote:

In fact⁉.

Somethings need not change if already perfected. Apple needs to be careful before they phase out like Blackberry.

They need to listen to customers as well Samsung is greatly leading the market now.

Even Bold / Italics / Underline has a bug with Paste also displaying in the sub pop up menu.

I'm sorry, but this is a year old thread about changing a password in iOS 10. What exactly are you referring to regarding that problem?

What did they change? What bug? how is Samsung Leading the market? With exploding phablets that are not allowed in Airplanes at all? Yeah that's a big leading edge they have there.

Also, the password change limitation is not an Apple decision. You have the same limitation to change a Gmail password or Hotmail password on any Android device you pick.

Perhaps you should do a bit of research before assuming things and bringing up a year old thread.

If you go to Settings>Mail and then select the account, depending on the type of account, you probably have to select the account again there. If this is an IMAP account, it would show a page with IMAP on it, and then account. Tap on that and it will show the account page, including your name, email address, and then server information.

You can't. There is no place to change the password in a Yahoo Account's settings.

You'll need to remove the Account from the iPhone, and recreate it, to change its password.

And yes its quite annoying.

Nice thing to know, so I can share with others if necessary. Wonder why they would have done something like that!?

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

This is really strange, and poor security. I changed my password in the wake of the security breach on another device, yet my Mac and iPhone can connect to mail - yet I haven´t given these devices the new password! (I am not using iCloud so the password isn´t updated that way). Thus if someone hacked my account with an Apple device they would still have access?

I change my password from the web email (yahoo) and found the same issues.

but i believe in ios 10 you don't need to change email password on iPhone. it will do it for you.

i try using several other email and email to my yahoo account, the mail in ios 10 received them as per normal.

not sure how but it work without you change any data from the iPhone.

Someone stated that you no longer need to change your password on an iOS 10 device, it somehow is changed for you. What if I changed my yahoo email password on my computer on purpose to invalidate any iOS devices, perhaps someone was logged in that I didn't want to have access? They would simply be automatically updated. I know it's a hassle (I use random passwords) to type in your new password into each iOS device, but it's much better for security.

So, this means it's pointless to change your password. If your account is compromised, it is permanently compromised.