Outlook Keeps Asking for Password — Why?

⚠️ When your email program starts repeatedly asking you for your password, it's a sign of a problem. Most of the time, it's a simple problem.

⚠️ If it keeps asking for a password
The most common cause is specifying an incorrect password.
Two-factor authentication can interfere.
A transition away from traditional username/password authentication could be at play.
An account hack could mean your password is no longer valid.
Just about anything causing a login to fail can result in this behavior.

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0:00 Outlook Keeps Asking for Password
1:00 The most common cause
2:12 Two-factor authentication can cause it
3:26 App password
6:02 OAUTH Open Authorization
8:10 Services with increased security can cause it
9:54 An account hack can cause it
10:30 Less common possibilities

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