Step 1: Open Settings on iPhone and select the Mail menu. To fix the problem where Mail app keeps asking for password, you can temporarily disable the Mail toggle and enable it after some time. When you use Gmail or Outlook with the Mail app, you have an option to sync Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and Notes with other Apple apps. Mail will start syncing new emails, and it won’t bother asking for authentication again.

Tap on Re-enter Password and add a new password for your email account. Step 4: You will see the account not authenticated error and an option to Re-enter the password. Step 3: Open an account that’s bothering you with asking password. Step 1: Open the iPhone Settings app and scroll down to the Mail app. Maybe you have changed the password for your Gmail or Outlook email account, and in that case, you may need to re-enter the new password to resume syncing emails with the Mail app. This trick solved the issue for us, and our iPhone no longer bothered with asking for password with the Mail app.

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