Apple mail keeps asking for outlook email password

I don't know if anyone has tried this already, but I have been using the Microsoft Authenticator app for my work emails.  I have just added my Outlook account to it in the hope that it will resolve having to input the password for that mail account every week.

I have both the native email app and the outlook app on my phone.

i can confirm the outlook app continues to work when the password has expired and is prompted for by the native mail app.

So this is a work around though i hate the layout of the outlook app and its slower to use.

i’ve recently deleted one of my accounts and re added it to see if this is also a fix. Not been going enough days yet to see if that foes the job but i recall a similar issue a few years back and this was a solution.

ive read somewhere that it is a known ios issue and apple will be releasing a fix but no date as to when.

ill update here after a week or so if the delete/add account fixes the issue in the native app.

i have multiple hotmail accounts on my phone so can compare the one ive readded with the others that continue to prompt.

Very useful. Yes, after a week or two, please do let us know how you get on. Same phone and e-mail account, and with both outlook and apple mail clients, is the perfect test case combination. So that's a sort of workaround. Personally, I'm a bit old fashioned, and like to have different apps for work and personal mail (rather than multiple accounts under the same app) so I normally prefer to run 2 apps.

Interesting to see if deleting and adding it back (as either an outlook type account or an exchange type account) is a permanent fix - I'm a bit sceptical, but the only way to know is to try. Definitely seems to be something Apple needs to look at here. I know for a fact that the iOS 13 mail app had huge problems with outlook accounts initially - double phantom sent items, incorrect display of reply/forward arrows etc. After several 13.x releases, they were resolved (Apple's change log confirmed this).

Did that 2 days ago and so far so good but waiting a week or so before assuming it has fixed the issue as promots for password only come up every few days on the other accounts i have.

I have both the native email app and the outlook app on my phone.

i can confirm the outlook app continues to work when the password has expired and is prompted for by the native mail app.

So this is a work around though i hate the layout of the outlook app and its slower to use.

i’ve recently deleted one of my accounts and re added it to see if this is also a fix. Not been going enough days yet to see if that foes the job but i recall a similar issue a few years back and this was a solution.

ive read somewhere that it is a known ios issue and apple will be releasing a fix but no date as to when.

ill update here after a week or so if the delete/add account fixes the issue in the native app.

i have multiple hotmail accounts on my phone so can compare the one ive readded with the others that continue to prompt.

I dont actually use the outlook app just the internal iphone mail app and i have been asked multiple times a day to input passwords for my MS mail accounts since updating.On my Ipad whitch i have not updated to IOS14 i have no issues.

Yes, iOS 14 seems to be a contributing or aggravating cause for sure. I'm just curious to see if the Outlook app might be a workaround, and/or deleting the outlook.com account for the Apple mail app and recreating as an Exchange type account. I suspect the Exchange solution with the Apple mail client might not be a permanent fix, but interested to hear from anyone that has switched to Outlook a while ago, to see if that does not suffer from the issue. I have 2 devices that are configured with the Outlook mail app against MS O365 accounts (similar to outlook.com probably), and they do NOT suffer this issue, so I think it is possible that the Outlook app is OK.