I was travelling recently and for a brief moment I thought I’d been hacked when my iPhone began repeatedly requesting my iCloud/Apple ID password. I had not been hacked, but had become victim of some weird and repetitive Apple ID bug.

Here are four steps which should squish that bug:

Symptom

Your iPhone is continuously requesting your login details and password. You enter these and the device requests them again and again. It’s annoying. Here’s what to do:

Before you begin

Check iCloud is working correctly. Visit the iCloud system status page and check all available services are marked with a green icon, take particular note of Apple ID, iCloud Account & Sign In, iMessage, iTunes. If there are service problems then you may want to wait for Apple to fix them, in case that resolves your problem.

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Source: COMPUTER WORLD