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How to Use iCloud Keychain on Your iOS Devices

Wednesday February 7, 2018 3:08 pm PST by Tim Hardwick

iCloud Keychain is a feature of your Apple account that you can use to keep your website login credentials, personal details, credit card details, and wireless network information up to date and available across all your Apple devices. With so many usernames and passwords to remember these days, iCloud Keychain provides a convenient way of always having this information at hand. And with its...

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Apple Introduces Standalone 'Passwords' App

Monday June 10, 2024 12:45 pm PDT by Hartley Charlton

iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia feature a new, dedicated Passwords app for faster access to important credentials. The Passwords app replaces iCloud Keychain, which is currently only accessible via a menu in Settings. Now, passwords are available directly via a standalone app for markedly quicker access, bringing it more in line with rival services. The Passwords app consolidates...

iCloud Passwords for Windows Gains 2FA Code Generator

Tuesday July 26, 2022 4:46 am PDT by Tim Hardwick

The iCloud Keychain password manager in Apple's ‌iCloud‌ for Windows app now supports two-factor authentication codes, according to user reports posted on Reddit. Two-factor authentication, or 2FA, acts as an additional layer of security for online accounts, by requesting a code generated by a password manager when the account owner logs in. Apple includes support for the generation of...

iOS 15.4 Beta Adds Option to Hide iCloud Keychain Security Recommendations

Tuesday February 1, 2022 9:59 am PST by Juli Clover

For iCloud Keychain passwords, Apple has long offered security recommendations for weak, compromised, or repeated passwords that need updating for maximum protection, but in some situations, you might have passwords that you can't change and annoying alerts you can't get rid of. That's changing in iOS 15.4, which is currently in beta testing. In the iOS 15.4 update, any security...

Apple Releases Chrome Browser Extension for iCloud Passwords on Windows

Monday February 1, 2021 1:04 am PST by Tim Hardwick

Apple has released an iCloud password extension for Google's Chrome browser on Windows that allows ‌iCloud‌ Keychain passwords to be used on PCs. Called simply "‌iCloud‌ Passwords," the extension allows users to access passwords in Google Chrome that have been generated in Apple's Safari browser. It also enables ‌iCloud‌ syncing of passwords generated in Chrome, making them available on...

iOS and OS X Security Flaws Enable Malicious Apps to Steal Passwords and Other Data

Wednesday June 17, 2015 6:21 am PDT by Joe Rossignol

A team of six researchers from Indiana University, Georgia Tech and Peking University have published an in-depth report exposing a series of security vulnerabilities that enable sandboxed malicious apps, approved on the App Store, to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data stored in other apps, including iCloud passwords and authentication tokens, Google Chrome saved web passwords and more. ...

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