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Hello -
When I attempt to add my outlook.com email account to any iOS device I recieve the error "Unable to verify account information".
I see this problem on my iPhone 4s and iPad and all devices are running iOS5.01 with no additional updates available.
I followed these steps to setup my account
-settings, add new mail account
-selected Hotmail
-entered my outlook.com address (full SMTP address - eg ******@outlook.com) and my password
-after several seconds I recieve the error "Unable to verify account information"
Power cycling the devices doesn't help. Everything works fine from the web.
Any ideas?
--Tom
Managing personal Outlook.com account settings, security, and privacy
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LOOK! I FOUND OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING! THERE'S A **** ERROR BY MICROSOFT RELATED WITH YOUR MOBILE NUMBER! SO, SIGN IN YOUR ACCOUNT THROUGH WEB BROWSER AND GO TO SETTINGS! THEN DISABLE ANY MOBILE NUMBER YOU HAVE LISTED THERE! DISABLE 2 STEPS OF SECURITY AS WELL AND IT'S DONE! NOW EVERYTHING IS GONNA WORK FINE!!
LOOK! I FOUND OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING! THERE'S A **** ERROR BY MICROSOFT RELATED WITH YOUR MOBILE NUMBER! SO, SIGN IN YOUR ACCOUNT THROUGH WEB BROWSER AND GO TO SETTINGS! THEN DISABLE ANY MOBILE NUMBER YOU HAVE LISTED THERE! DISABLE 2 STEPS OF SECURITY AS WELL AND IT'S DONE! NOW EVERYTHING IS GONNA WORK FINE!!
sign in to what account on the web browser?
Just upgraded to iOS8.0.1 and had exactly the problem described. I went into Outlook through a browser, disabled my phone and turned off 2 step security and boom... It worked just like you said. MICROSOFT - you need to fix the bug!!!
Life Saver! This worked STRAIGHT AWAY! Cheers pal!!!
Hi TerenceDee_792,
Welcome to Microsoft Community.
We're glad to know that your issue has been resolved. As for your question, it's your discretion if you want to leave everything as it is. However, if you like to know more about Two-Step verification which caused your issue, please visit the link below for more information.
App passwords and two-step verification
Let us know if you have other concern.
Thanks,
Hi SandraTaylor20,
Welcome to Microsoft Community and I am here to assist you on your concern.
Are you having the exact concern like TomWKeane? If yes, please provide us the exact error message you get when you encountered this issue. I also suggest that you re-configure your account on your mobile device just to ensure that there are no misconfigurations that might be contributing to this issue. You can refer to Raymond’s post above for instructions.
Let us know the results.
Thank you.
I recently got the iphone5 S and tried to set up my outlook account I also received the error Unable to verify account information".
I followed the removal of my phone number and the 2 steps security from outlook settings and now my mail works fine with the new phone.
It all falls into place now that my outlook settings on my old phone an iphone 4 stopped working when I set up the 2 step security in outlook. I just couldn’t be bothered to sort it out.
Interestingly I couldn’t set up my outlook account to Mozilla Thunderbird either but that now works too.
The reason I set up the 2 step security was that I couldn’t receive email in outlook because someone was using my outlook account. I changed the password and with the 2 step security that worked fine.
The question is now do I just leave everything as it is.
My thanks to oliveiradani94 for the help.