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How to Add Notes to iCloud Keychain on Mac

Apr 15, 2022 - Leave a Comment
Add Notes to iCloud Keychain on Mac

You can add secure notes to your iCloud Keychain account and login entries if you’d like to. The notes can serve any purpose, but they can be particularly handy if you want to reference something specific to that login, whether a log of prior passwords, or the purpose of the account, or whatever else. For … Read More

How to Install iCloud Passwords Extension on Microsoft Edge

Dec 4, 2021 - 2 Comments
How to Install iCloud Passwords Extension on Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge users can install the iCloud Passwords Extension into their browser, thanks to the release of the Google Chrome extension that allows you to use all your passwords that are stored in iCloud. This is possible because both browsers are using the same Chromium base, so with a slight workaround you can use to … Read More

How to View Saved Passwords in Safari on Mac

Aug 3, 2021 - 1 Comment
How to View Saved Passwords in Safari on Mac

If you save passwords with Safari on Mac, you can easily go back and view those saved passwords. This is fantastic if you’ve lost a login, or perhaps if you forgot the password to one of your online accounts. As long as you previously signed in to your account from Safari on Mac, iPhone, or … Read More

How to Edit Saved Passwords on Mac with Keychain Access

Jun 8, 2021 - 1 Comment
How to Edit Saved Passwords on Mac with Keychain Access

Do you use Keychain to store passwords, quickly sign in to websites on Safari, or log in to certain apps that are installed on your Mac? If so, you might want to make sure the information that’s used by Keychain is up to date. And this means occasionally you may need to edit saved passwords … Read More

How to Change the Default Keychain on Mac

May 5, 2021 - 1 Comment
How to Change the Default Keychain on Mac

Did you know that you can create multiple keychains on your Mac, in addition to the default keychain associated with your login? Moreover, you can set other keychains you created as the default keychain on your macOS computer, which then become where your login and password credentials are stored. Most users won’t need to do … Read More

How to Change Keychain Password on Mac

Apr 24, 2021 - 1 Comment
How to Change Keychain Password on Mac

Do you want to change the password used to access your Keychain data on a Mac? There are two ways to change the Keychain password, depending on whether it’s a default Keychain, and therefore whether you have multiple Keychains or not.

How to Update & Edit Saved Passwords in Safari Autofill on Mac

Sep 8, 2020 - 2 Comments
How to Edit Saved Passwords in Safari on Mac

Do you use Safari’s built-in password manager to quickly log in to your favorite websites on the Mac? If so, you might want to learn how you can update this stored login data whenever you change the password for one of your online accounts.

How to Add Logins & Passwords to Safari Autofill on Mac

Sep 7, 2020 - 3 Comments
How to Add Passwords to Safari on Mac

Many Mac users might already be aware that Safari requests to automatically save your password information when you log in to a website for the first time. But even if you ignored that initial request to save login information, you can manually enter those details into Safari autofill, and never have to remember your logins … Read More

How to Reset Keychain on Mac

Jul 29, 2020 - 3 Comments
How to Reset Default Keychain on Mac

Did you recently lose, reset, or forget your Mac’s user password? If so, you will no longer be able to access the existing Keychain login and passwords stored on your Mac. This is because, by default, the Keychain password is the same as your Mac user password. Since you’ve lost or reset the user password, … Read More

How to Find Forgotten / Lost Web Site Passwords on Mac

Jul 27, 2020 - 7 Comments
How to Find Lost Web Site Passwords on Mac

Did you forget the password for a website you recently visited? Or perhaps, you lost the login credentials of one of your social networking accounts? Either way, if you ever logged into these websites on your Mac and saved the login credentials to Keychain, then you can recover your forgotten passwords easily with Keychain Access.

How to Create a New Keychain on Mac

Jul 25, 2020 - 8 Comments
How to Create a New Keychain on Mac

Do you want to create a new keychain in addition to the default login keychain on your Mac? You can create as many keychains as you want in a macOS system to store your passwords in a pretty straightforward manner.

How to See Accounts & Passwords on iPhone & iPad

Jun 24, 2020 - 2 Comments
How to See Accounts & Passwords on iPhone & iPad

iPhone and iPad feature a built-in password management tool called iCloud Keychain, it stores online account information and automatically fills out log-in details, credit card information, address info, Wi-Fi passwords, and more. If you use iCloud Keychain, you might want to know where all the stored account information is located on your iPhone or iPad.

How to Find Duplicate Passwords in Keychain on iPhone & iPad

Jun 23, 2020 - 3 Comments
How to Find Duplicate Passwords in Keychain on iPhone & iPad

Do you use the same password for multiple online accounts? It may be wise to fix that, as accounts with shared passwords are theoretically at risk of a security breach (for example, if one service is breached and you use the same password on other accounts, it’s possible someone nefarious would be able to gain … Read More

How to Delete Old Passwords & Accounts from iPhone & iPad

Jun 22, 2020 - 5 Comments
How to Delete Old Passwords & Accounts from iPhone & iPad

Do you have outdated account, login, or password information on iCloud Keychain that keeps coming up when you visit a website or particular app? Or do you often update and edit login information for various accounts? If so, you might want to remove outdated accounts and passwords that are stored on your iPhone & iPad … Read More

How to Edit Saved Passwords on iPhone & iPad with iCloud Keychain

Jun 21, 2020 - 3 Comments
How to Edit Saved Passwords on iPhone & iPad

Do you use iCloud Keychain to store the log-in details of your various online accounts? Well, if you change the password to any of these logins or accounts on their respective platforms or websites, Keychain doesn’t always update the information right away. And when that happens, you wouldn’t be able to use this handy feature … Read More

How to Manually Add Passwords to Keychain on iPhone & iPad

Jun 20, 2020 - 20 Comments
How to Manually Add Passwords to Keychain on iPhone & iPad

Do you use iCloud Keychain to store your passwords to various online accounts? If so, did you know that you can manually add all your online accounts in one place, instead of heading over to their respective websites individually? Adding login information to iCloud Keychain is easy on iPhone and iPad.

How to Use iCloud Keychain on iPhone & iPad

Mar 30, 2020 - 8 Comments
How to Use iCloud Keychain on iPhone & iPad

Do you want to store all your online account information, logins, and passwords in one place? You might be interested in trying out iCloud Keychain, a handy password management tool that’s baked into iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS devices, and that automatically syncs that login keychain data between your other iPhone, iPad, and Mac hardware too. … Read More

Find Saved Passwords on iPhone & iPad in Safari

Jun 26, 2014 - 14 Comments
Finding a saved Safari password in iOS

The Autofill feature of Safari makes logging in to websites much easier in iOS, not having to remember and type in every single password for every website under the sun that you come across. While saving passwords with autofill is undoubtedly helpful, it can also mean it’s easier to forget what a password is, since … Read More

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