IPhone randomly prompting me to enter iTunes password. PLEASE HELP!
Within the last 3 days my iPhone has been prompting me to put in my iTunes password randomly. I have tried signing out and back in to the iTunes store... I have seen others who say that they had pending downloads, where would I go to find out if any of my dl were pending? If I enter my password, it stops prompting for about 15 minutes, but then it starts up again. I can push cancel, and carry on as usual, but it will pop up again in a few minutes. Please help! It's just a big nuisance
Try shutting down any apps running in the background. Double tap the Home button to open the multitasking tray. Tap and Hold on any icon and wait for all the icons to start to jiggle and display a Minus sign in the upper left hand corner. Tap the minus sign on each icon to close it. Once you have closed all background apps, reset your phone, Hold both the Home and Power/Sleep buttons at the same time. Wait for the Apple log to appear (The slide to power off screen will appear, ignore this and wait for the Apple logo to appear). Wait for your phone to restart and see what happens.
If the password screen keeps reappearing, yes you will want to go into iTunes on your PC and in the Store pull down look for Check for Available Downloads and see if you have any apps, songs, movies, etc. waiting to be downloaded.
If this doesn't work, you can to a full reset, Settings => General => Reset => Reset All Settings. This will not erase any content but it will reset the phone to factory defaults so you will need to go through the new phone set up process and sign back into your wifi and other accounts.
Hope this helps.
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