This happened to me for a few days, then (happily) stopped happening.
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iOS 16 always asking for Apple ID password every restart
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It honestly happens to me every time I restart the phone. It always comes back. BTW this never happened one time on iOS 15, or iOS 14..
You are absolutely correct it was never there prior to iOS 16. Where has the quality control gone at Apple, this is insane? By the way it’s still a bug on iOS 16.1 this is crazy.. Do Apple software engineers ever read this or do they just not even give a crap?
You're not alone - my wife's iPhone XS on iOS 16.0.2 does the same exact thing.
Hopefully iOS 16.1 fixes things.....
According to other people in forum and Reddit 16.1 still has sadly not fixed it 😭😭
11 Pro Max here. No issues with iOS 16. Running pretty smooth so far.
I did a factory reset (erased everything) so its like my new phone. No backups used at all. So, from a totally fresh build the problem is still with me on my iPhone 12 at 16.0.2
Daily?!! Some people on here have said they don’t restart their phones more than every month or so. Some even say it’s only done when software is updated. If you’re having to do it daily you have more problems than this minor issue.
Which would confirm it's an account problem, not an iOS problem. Did you try changing your password and logging out all devices?
its very much a case of each to their own here..
... but ill be honest before reading this thread I had NO idea people were routinely turning off their phones like this.
I mean, sure, if you are wanting to maximise battery life (i do this with my iPad when travelling and wanting to make the battery last as long as possible between recharges).... but as a phone is a primary communication device it seems strange to me to want to turn it off ever.
and NO, I am not tied to my phone... or social media etc etc etc - but in case of emergencies (which a phone is primarily) then I need to be contacted.... turning the phone off seems crazy to me. Of course I fully use what was once 'do not disturb' mode and lately sleep focus to ensure that while the phone charges overnight it makes no sounds or lights up unless an emergency contact phones me... and in social setting such as the cinema or meals out etc then i turn on theatre mode....
Not correct. Macrumors posters have reported that somehow if an app was purchased from a different Apple ID, then it can cause problems when the phone is updated. Not saying this is your situation.
I have 2 Apple IDs/iCloud accounts. And the password request was popping up for the account that is used for app and media purchases and not the other account. It does seem to be related to specific accounts which also means that it doesn’t affect that many people and will probably persist for quite a while.
A little over a year ago many of us were having an issue with Mail, for me it was only one account and not the other. During daytime hours about 6am-8pm Eastern time Mail slowed to a crawl. If I sent an email to myself it took up to an hour or more to appear. Individual messages could take 2 or 3 minutes to load. But after 8pm, and interestingly on weekends, everything was completely normal. This persisted for a couple months. A lot of angry folks posting on various platforms about this but no mention on any media outlets because the overall numbers affected were quite small but I saw complaints from people from the UK, Canada, and of course the US.
I contacted Apple Support and worked with someone who was very attentive to the issue but initially said they weren't getting significant reports. He had me try resetting network settings because he said he had to have a record of at least trying one thing. He later contacted me again and said that they were getting more reports and engineering was trying to track it down. But they had to go account by account to find the affected servers that were causing the issue. It took months but they finally got it corrected.
Such issues take quite a while to solve because they affect specific accounts and not that many in total. This particular issue only happens to some when they restart their device which most people don’t do that often. I regularly restart my devices once a week, I’ve set a weekly reminder to do so. So even if it does occur on my phone which it hasn't since 16.0.3, but could again, all I have to do is tap cancel once a week. Really how hard is that, you don’t have to enter anything, just lift your finger a little bit and tap cancel. First world problems I guess.
It happens daily man. Like one guy said it’s when you turn back on your phone it’s mostly likely not connecting to iTunes store and it’s basically an iTunes authentication bug. It says you’re signed out when you are definitely signed in to iCloud.
Yes, man many people turn off their iPhones 📱 every single night 🌙, or some people drain the phone all the way until it turns off and then recharge it!!
Registered just for this issue. I myself have this bug, and have contacted Apple, removed Apple ID, signed out of facetime, etc.. The issue is still present on IOS 16.0.3 where it wasn't present as recent at 15.7 which I updated to the day before I updated to IOS 16. I turn off my phone every night, and if I sign out of the app store the issue goes away. I also find if I'm quick enough on boot up and enter my pass code it doesn't appear.
It's fine saying it only happens when you start your phone, but why should we accept any issues from a phone which is this expensive? Apple seems to get away with these things due to people who defend the lower quality on offer. Remember antennagate issues with the Iphone 4? Plasticgate on the 5c? Bendgate on the 6? IOS issues on launch of the 14? Even the U2 music forcefully put onto peoples itunes without permission.
I also have an ipad which is still on 15.7, and guess what? No issues and that gets turned off and on all the time.
It's fine saying it only happens when you start your phone, but why should we accept any issues from a phone which is this expensive? Apple seems to get away with these things due to people who defend the lower quality on offer. Remember antennagate issues with the Iphone 4? Plasticgate on the 5c? Bendgate on the 6? IOS issues on launch of the 14? Even the U2 music forcefully put onto peoples itunes without permission.
I also have an ipad which is still on 15.7, and guess what? No issues and that gets turned off and on all the time.
Shot in the dark, no idea if this will help your login issues or not. I'm not having this issue myself, just throwing out an idea for those that do as it seems related to all your App Store/Music accounts and not iCloud accounts.
Have you all checked your devices list using the MacOS App Store or MacOS Apple Music App under your account info -> Downloads and Purchases -> Manage Devices, and remove any older devices you don't have anymore? Also, you can check your App Store ID using appleid.apple.com and under Devices, remove any old devices you don't have anymore.
I seem to recall there's a maximum number of devices that are allowed to associate with your account so I'm thinking if you have hit that limit, it may be the cause of your login issues.
Have you all checked your devices list using the MacOS App Store or MacOS Apple Music App under your account info -> Downloads and Purchases -> Manage Devices, and remove any older devices you don't have anymore? Also, you can check your App Store ID using appleid.apple.com and under Devices, remove any old devices you don't have anymore.
I seem to recall there's a maximum number of devices that are allowed to associate with your account so I'm thinking if you have hit that limit, it may be the cause of your login issues.
Bro its an apple iTunes authentication bug. It has nothing to do with the maximum number of devices with an account.. 🤦♂️
Bro, then live with it and stop complaining if you're just going to puke on people trying to help.
Turns out I lied… Just restarted, and it is happening again (or maybe never stopped?)
Three devices. MBP, iPad, iPhone 11 Pro Max. Only happens on phone, only started upon installing 16. Still doing it.
HOW COULD IT POSSIBLY EFFECT THE IPAD WHEN IOS 16 ISNT EVEN RELEASED YET.. 🤦🏻♂️ LIKE WE SAID THIS NEVER HAPPENED ON IOS 15 NOT ONE TIME!This is definitely a weird bug as its only affecting my wife's iPhone XS on iOS 16.0.2.
It doesn't affect her iPad nor my iPhone 13 Pro or iPad Air 2 (2020) nor my son's iPhone 11 nor his iPad Air 2 (2018)...?!!
Again, today on start-up, the same issue. It seems to be an IOS 16 bug so Ipad, or anything not upgraded should work fine. I also had a voice mail issue when I upgraded but found a way to fix that. It showed I had a voice mail after upgrading but nothing was there. I had someone leave me a voicemail and checked it by dialling 1 and deleting it that way.
People shouldn't need to do this much to work around all these bugs. Don't release a new version till it's ready...we can wait. People need to stop defending these bugs as well. My wife never turns off her phone, I do it every day. We buy the phone to use how we want to, there is no right or wrong way.
People shouldn't need to do this much to work around all these bugs. Don't release a new version till it's ready...we can wait. People need to stop defending these bugs as well. My wife never turns off her phone, I do it every day. We buy the phone to use how we want to, there is no right or wrong way.
Macbook runs a different software, and Ipad is still on 15.7 or earlier. The bug only seems to be present on IOS 16 so don't upgrade any more devices until the bug is fixed.