If you have set up an email account on your iPad and it has stopped downloading new messages, then it is often because you have changed the password for the account, but you have not updated the password on your iPad. Fortunately this is something that you can do directly on the device, and it takes just a few moments to accomplish.
Changing an Email Password on the iPad
Some email providers, such as Gmail and Yahoo, offer security methods like two-step verification and application-specific passwords. If you are using these options to protect the security of your email password, then you will need to get an application-specific password for your iPad instead of using your regular email password. You can learn about application-specific passwords for Gmail here and for Yahoo here. Step 1: Open the Settings menu. Step 2: Touch the Mail, Contacts, Calendars option in the column at the left side of the screen. Step 3: Select the email account for which you want to update the password. Step 4: The screen you see now might vary depending upon the type of email account you have. If it looks similar to the screen below, select the Account option. Otherwise you can simply delete any existing passwords and replace them with the new one. Step 5: Tap inside of the Password field, delete the previous password, then enter the new password. Touch the Done button once you have finished. Are there email accounts on your iPad that you are not using anymore? Learn how to delete an email account from your iPad so that you stop receiving messages for that account on the device. After receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science he spent several years working in IT management for small businesses. However, he now works full time writing content online and creating websites. His main writing topics include iPhones, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Android, and Photoshop, but he has also written about many other tech topics as well. Read his full bio here.
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