The 'App Passwords' seems to be a work-around for and device/application which doesnt support the native MFA. It appears that the native IOS client doesnt support O365 MFA, thus to get it working I ended up using 'App Passwords'. Download the Microsoft Authenticator app onto your phone. Ive currently enabled MFA in Office 365 and noticed that my IOS device wasnt able to access the email.
* We are happy and always here to help you, and share the Microsoft 365 for business online information with you. Steps to add an Office 365 account with Multi-factor Authentication enforced to work with the Mail App iOS or Later are as follows. Jennifer * Beware of scammers posting fake support numbers here. Having issues setting up a Device Configuration Profile with intune. The authentication group, the issue is resolved. To conclude, I think we can say the answer to your question “ Do you know what forces the iOS native mail app or to use app password? “ is the modern authentication is disenabled for those affected users so after you add them to
(2) The app or device doesn't support Modern authentication so you need to use the APP password to give the app or device permission to access your Office 365 account. (1) Tour Your organization enables MFA but doesn't enable modern authentication for users, but you said the modern authentication is enabled on the Tenant in your post. Many thanks for your reply and let us know above information.īased on your description, after you add those affected users to the group in Airwatch for modern authentication, the iOS native Mail app is now accepting the AD password.Īnd this is also my answers that the APP password is only used in two scenarios: