iTunes keep asking for password on free apps?

Same here. Finally got around to setting up family sharing for my (erm) family. Both kids have exactly the same settings as far as I can tell, but one allows automatic downloading of previously purchased apps and the other seems to ask for my password and the child's password. My child doesn't even know his password as I keep a note of it!

You're making it too complicated, Apple!

Ha! I bet you would mind if you lived in a country where it's 100 dollars a month for "unlimited" throttled internet and therefore you don't have a contract. You're just about to get on your bike and use a navigation app which then asks you to enter your iTunes pw. So you then have to get to a wifi zone to hook up to their servers. If your router is strong enough usually you can do this without going back in the house with helmet and all the gear on. If not, then well, you get the picture... I have waited sometimes 10 minutes just to enter a password so i can ride my bike using Cyclemeter. Add em all up - those 10 minutes = 5 solid days per annum standing waiting for their server to recognise my one strength wifi signal from outside the door so i can then tell them i am the owner of a purchased app (not a free one!) and can i please now ride my fin bike???

Apple has become the most horrendously retrogressive disaster I ever bought into

Last week, I took an Apple X back to their store. Brand new. Unboxed it, set up all the apps and then upgraded to 11.3 - big mistake. Screen went haywire like it had a robot in it and was doing all sorts of crazy stuff. The Apple kid in the store said "you know, you get these faults in almost anything you buy nowadays from time to time." to which I replied that "at 1400 bucks the equivalent best of the range Bentley Continental or Lear Jet better not go haywire on me straight off the line". He wasn't interested. He was actually about to take a brand new iPhone X into the workshop to get the screen replaced until i gave him a piece of my mind.... REPLACEMENT PLEASE

Wish I could sell ALL my 7 Apple devices and just forget about it. 10-15k wasted and MANY MANY months in the last 12 years spent trying to fix/understand/workaround their untested, un-bullet-proofed sh..

Still won’t work ☹

I believe this all started when I did the update. I had it all set up & it was working good. Now it’s just all messed up

I have same problem. I started to face it after I purchased iPad Pro. Never happened before with iPad2 and 4 I already own. Signing out and in as well as rebooting does not help.

I did this and it didn't work. MORE suggestions please.

Did everything you said to do and I am still having this problem. My current apps won’t update also. I am asked over and over again to put my password in and it won’t download.

Please how can I use my Touch ID to download apps on app store

I have done all of the above and it is still doing the same thing.

When I type my info it will take it for just a moment and then send me verification code, I type it in then it sends me another error stating verification has failed.

Hello! Everytime I go to down load a free app, it’s asking me for my password & then it still doesn’t let me download it. I’m So Frustrated!!!

Hello!?

I am having this same problem. I have changed the restrictions on both my iTouch and iPad. I have turned off and restarted the devices. I have signed in and out of my iTunes account, and it still asks for the password.

Help I’m having the same problem... it’s really making me mad. I have apps I would like to download and apps that need to be updated. I tried everything twice and still no change