Unable to reset password on Email after iOS 18 update

Since I upgraded to the iOS 18, I cannot find how to reset a password on my email every article I’m finding I don’t have that to reset it



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iPhone 15 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 17, 2024 2:35 PM

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Posted on Jan 6, 2025 5:43 PM

// Steps to Update Your Email Password:

  1. Go to: Settings > Apps > Mail.
  2. SelectMail Accounts.
  3. Choose the account that requires a password update.
  4. Toggle off the Mail button.
  5. When prompted, enter the new password.
  6. If needed, toggle the Mail button back on to ensure the mailbox reappears in the app. //



We have an iPhone 14, with 18.1.1.


This did not work for us. Toggling off "Mail" did nothing - no prompt - nor did toggling it back on.


Our solution was to delete the mail account and re-add it.


Apple has a bug here. They may have tried to change too much too fast. Happens.

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Jan 6, 2025 5:43 PM in response to Sasha_27

// Steps to Update Your Email Password:

  1. Go to: Settings > Apps > Mail.
  2. SelectMail Accounts.
  3. Choose the account that requires a password update.
  4. Toggle off the Mail button.
  5. When prompted, enter the new password.
  6. If needed, toggle the Mail button back on to ensure the mailbox reappears in the app. //



We have an iPhone 14, with 18.1.1.


This did not work for us. Toggling off "Mail" did nothing - no prompt - nor did toggling it back on.


Our solution was to delete the mail account and re-add it.


Apple has a bug here. They may have tried to change too much too fast. Happens.

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Jan 7, 2025 7:10 AM in response to JCUM

There still isn't a fix for this. My work uses Google mail for and now I can't use the Mail app because there is no place to enter the password. I downloaded the Gmail app as a workaround, but it's rather inconvenient to have to look in both places.

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Nov 13, 2024 11:54 AM in response to AlWeir

After "upgrading" to IOS18, I can no longer access my email. It says no password provided, Please go to mail account settings and enter a password.


I've entered my password, even changed it on the service providers website, still not able to access email.


Don't want to delete and reinstall app since it will lose the save data.


Help!

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Nov 28, 2024 5:43 PM in response to koskorg

Steps to Update Your Email Password:

  1. Go to: Settings > Apps > Mail.
  2. SelectMail Accounts.
  3. Choose the account that requires a password update.
  4. Toggle off the Mail button.
  5. When prompted, enter the new password.
  6. If needed, toggle the Mail button back on to ensure the mailbox reappears in the app.


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Feb 17, 2025 7:37 PM in response to JCUM

Unable to sign into or update password in Outlook.


I wish you guys would stop screwing with stuff. If it ain’t broke, don’t “fix” it. And when you do release an iOS update, make sure it works.


Do you wave any idea as to how amateurish you guys appear to be?

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Sep 17, 2024 2:52 PM in response to JCUM

JCUM wrote:

Since I upgraded to the iOS 18, I cannot find how to reset a password on my email every article I’m finding I don’t have that to reset it


Go to your email provider on-line through a browser and log into your account —verify the password is correct


You can reset it there if necessary, making note of the new psswd.


You can make changes to the Mail on the iphone

Settings>Apps>Mail>Mail Accounts>Account Settings


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Dec 28, 2024 2:19 PM in response to tk1tk

if you have a SMTP server setting for your email (mail is kept on your server and not local on your device) the only way right now is to remove the account in e.g. your iPhone and re-create the account. As the password re-set in not working at the moment, at least not in the iPhone

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