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iOS 9.2 keeps asking me for Apple ID password! Help!

This kept happening to my phone on 9.1 turnt out to be a corrupted itunes download
 
yalag said:
I just updated to iOS 9.2 and for the past couple of days, it would randomly ask me for my Apple ID password. I would enter it in and then it would go away. Until the next time it would come back again.

How do I fix this!!
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Go to feedback and let them know about it.
 
I also have this issue since updating to 9.2 but I just wake up to it. Never asks all day but when I wake up in morning there it is.
 
I was having this problem every day since updating to 9.2. It would happen whenever I put my phone on the charger before bed and when I took it off the charger in the morning. Yesterday I did some stuff to my Apple ID (I turned off two-step authentication and turned on the newer two-factor authentication), and since then, I haven't received the message... at least so far I haven't.
 
I logged out of and logged into iMessage on all of my iOS and OS X devices for my main iCloud account and it finally stopped happening.
 
This is driving me crazy. Every time I plug my phone in to charge, I get that pop up. And then I get it again later when I unplug it.

Wtf?

A suggestion I've seen is to sign out if iCloud and sigh back in. I'm worried about doing that though because it says it will delete all of my iCloud Drive stuff and my iCloud Notes. What is going on here???
 
DDustiNN said:
This is driving me crazy. Every time I plug my phone in to charge, I get that pop up. And then I get it again later when I unplug it.

Wtf?

A suggestion I've seen is to sign out if iCloud and sigh back in. I'm worried about doing that though because it says it will delete all of my iCloud Drive stuff and my iCloud Notes. What is going on here???
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When you sign out of iCloud, it will remove all your iCloud data from the phone. But then when you sign back in, it should redownload all the data again.
 
Our iPhones and iPad (9.1) had been randomly asking us to reenter our iCloud password (shared account) until I finally turned off the last bit of iCloud Drive. After that, the random popup password requests stopped completely. As others have said, this may be a coincidence or a solution. In either case, I was glad to give up iCloud Drive to stop iCloud's incessant password whining.

---GetRealBro
 
To the folks that are seeing this on a routine basis are you using Find my iPhone functionality? On my phone I just logged out of the iCloud account and back in & I haven't seen that popup since. On my wife's phone, we had her change her iCloud password (for the record this is a pita when there are a lot of devices in the equation). The password was changed thru OSX iCloud settings on her Air & then the new password was applied to her iCloud settings on the iPhone 6S. She was still seeing the modal popup requesting ID verification on a spammy frequency. Rather than sign out of iCloud I just flipped the switch on Find my iPhone and the messages haven't appeared since. Coincidence? Maybe.
 
It's happened to me a lot as well (twice today) but I didn't notice until someone mentioned it here that it's always after I've plugged it in to charge. I'll hard reset later and see if that solves it.
 
i had this problem before, but now after the update it seems to be that ios9.2 fixed it... and not a surprise, the update broke it for others...
 
If you find you are having issues with iCloud or you have been receiving daily pop-up screens asking you to enter your Apple ID what you need to do is the following:-
1. Go to Settings iCloud and sign out of iCloud.
2. Now go to iTunes & App Store and sign into your Apple ID on your device and view your account, accept any new agreement notices (if any) then make sure you sign out of the iTunes and App Store. What you are actually doing is refreshing your iCloud status with Apple’s servers.
3. Now sign back in to everything again and you should be ok.
 
Hi,

I posted to a thread slightly older than this one as I thought it was the latest.

Same pop up here, only when I plug in to charge.

Tried the hard boot, turning iMessage and FaceTime on then off today, if that doesn't fix I'll sign out of iCloud then back in. Failing that a call to Apple.
 
Thanks.

Tried that 2 days ago and the pop up had stopped.

Back again today though :(
 
canesalato said:
Chinese apps, but not only available in the chinese market, you could get them in Europe or in the US as well.
Sure, they were removed or fixed (after several days and they were available for months) but I'm talking about good practices. Because...**** happens!

Say you are browsing in safari on the mac and you get this pop up:
"your mac is infected! please insert the administrator password to scan your system and remove viruses".
What do you do? You laugh and close the window (and avoid that website in the future). That's because most users know very well that safari isn't supposed to ask for our password while browsing the internet. Apple doesn't have to fix this problem because the problem is solved by itself.

On iOS...meh. Sometimes i have wondered: "is this a legitimate password request or do I have some infected apps that work in the background and throw a password request in my home screen?" Especially when things are buggy and the password gets asked for three times!

In the end, you have a bad practice + bugs that make things worse. And these things add up to users thinking:
"Well, sometimes iOS we'll ask me again and again for a password and I'll just type it. It's how it works, it's normal".

This is dangerous!
It's a security problem waiting to happen.
Modal dialogs with password requests are widely considered bad programming when not linked to a specific an unambiguous user action.
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This..
 
read all of the above and i guess there is no solution.My problem is that after setting an APPLE password when i went to itunes or the apple store it says my password is incorrect. Does i tunes,the app store and cloud need different passwords?
 
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