I use Bitwarden in conjunction with Apple's system. Because every now and then, Apple's system fails to record the password. I hate that they don't let even let me see the password as it's being created. And the Bitwarden password generation gives me choice as far as options, because some sites won't accept the Apple's suggested password.
I hear ya @Iluv dogs! Those limitations to edit should no longer be an issue with the updates they're bringing to iOS16! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t subscribed already and would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and use the THANKS button! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
What a great and thorough job of putting all this together. I've been wanting to set up Keychain for a few years and kept blowing it off. This video is so easy to follow and will help people (specifically Apple device users) get set up with this functionality. Thanks for putting this together!
Hi @YahayaSuleman-o8y! What do you mean by "bypass an iCloud Password" Like the password associated to your Apple ID Account, or just a password saved in iCloud? Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.
Great question @patricktheberge1144! There is an iCloud Passwords integration with Google Chrome that you can find the extension in the Chrome Web Store. I'll link below for reference: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-passwords/pejdijmoenmkgeppbflobdenhhabjlaj? I haven't used or tested this in a long time, but give it a go! Lots of new things coming out with Passkeys with Apple and other major tech companies too! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Joel. Tough to watch for me. Here are a few reasons. It is dated now and I know you are aware of that but I liked the recommendations and wanted to try you. My operating system is different as I am using a macbook air. use google chrome and not safari as a browser (if that matters). Also, I have subtitles on as I have a bit of difficulty hearing you clearly so I can't see what you are doing behind the displayed words. Hope some of this is helpful in making future videos.
Hi @diggergrad! I appreciate the feedback. The video is a little dated, but still relevant for users running the same operating systems. If Google Chrome is your primary browser and you don't use Safari on your Mac, then this video wouldn't be much help. iCloud Keychain Passwords primarily work for Safari. Google has their own password management within their browser. As far as the subtitles go, I unfortunately don't have any control on the placement of those. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
@@Learnwithjoel Thanks for the quick feedback and explanation. Your comment on this not working as I use google chrome as a browser is a big help to me. Thank you and I will recommend your videos to others.
Hey Joel, awesome video here. You have inspired me to change some (maybe all, hopefully) of my weak passwords from the past to the much more secure Apple-generated passwords for my many accounts. Thank you!!
Thank you for the continued support @CAM Tech! You know, I was a big user of Goole Passwords, but once I migrated and updated majority of my passwords and accounts (still have some left to do) it has been so convenient with FaceID and more secure! So thanks again and I hope this video was helpful! If you learned something and want to support my content I’m creating, feel free to use SUPER THANKS on the video! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
You're very welcome @Jaana H! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Great question @Nazira Janmohamed! From my understanding you can change your location/region for the App Store, but in my opinion, it doesn't seem to be convenient! I will link an Apple Support Article below that should help way more! Change your Apple ID country or region support.apple.com/en-us/HT201389 I hope that helps! If you learned something new and want to support my channel, click THANKS below on the video! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, please share it along!
The “Hide My Email” feature is also cool because outside of that use-case where it prompts you with “sign in with apple” you can manually generate “fake” iCloud emails to sign in anywhere and even use the same one for multiple accounts.. and forward it to your email. Also you can modify which email these get forwarded to so they don’t even have to clutter up or potentially compromise your primary appleID email. Suffices to say, I’ve got junk emails for my junk emails.
Hello, thanks for the cool video. I have a question if you say that all the keys in the background are stored on my Mac, the question arises what if I don’t have a computer But only an iPhone? Or are all these fine-tuning settings for all passwords also stored in iCloud, not only with the help of a computer can you see their display and be able to edit? Thank you, I would really like to get an answer to this question.
Hi @Jugin27! iCloud Passwords works on any Apple Device. It saves the information in the iCloud Keychain. You do not need a computer to use this feature on your iPhone. You could just have an iPhone and take advantage of this concept. The Mac can see slightly different information, but it is not needed. I hope that helps! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!
When the Keychain Passwords feature came out, I forget exactly what, but there was something that was still restrictive about it where I didn't think it was something that, for me, was quite ready to replace 1Password, which I have been using for many years.
I like it when the Password Manager can suggest Passwords. and there is a way for me to pull up something that will create the PW for me! Does Apple Password do that?
Great question @mrwlg243! Using Apple's Keychain passwords will certainly do this for you. Since this video was created, Apple has improved it and also made some new helpful features. I would certainly recommend trying it as a password manager! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
I stumbled onto your video this morning and thought it was very good and very thorough. I was actually searching to find out what to do when your KeyChain passwords are not synchronizing between your devices. I've spent a couple hours talking with tech support at Apple and was told that my case would be escelated but I'm still waiting for them to get back to me with a solution. It really is disconcerting having such an issue and wondering if all of my data stored on iCloud is synching/working the way it is supposed to work. You don't really know what you don't know... UGH!!! Seams that there is a lot more stuff in iCloud that what I initially thought. I see you have a couple videos on iCloud that I'll have to check out. Have you had any issues with KeyChain passwords synching?
Hi @Tom Cawoski! I'm really happy you stumbled on my channel! I do have a lot of videos related to iCloud, Apple Photos and mainly Apple Apps and such! I'm kinda curious on what issues you're having. What device did you create the saved keychain on? How many devices do you have? What it's syncing? What iOS version are you on? Do you have a Windows or Mac computer? Let me know if you got this resolved, or comment back with some more information and maybe I can help. I have been using iCloud Keychains for a while and there are some weird things I encounter while trying to create one, but it's usually an issue of the website. I've never had an issue with any syncing of passwords. Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
@@Learnwithjoel Since my original question, I have watched a couple of your iCloud and other various videos of yours and they're done very well, and very helpful. The other interesting one was on Time Machine - perhaps another time for that discussion. I'm a musician/mixing engineer/producer just to give you an idea of my involvement with Apple products. No Windows devices for me - I left the dark side when I got my first Mac!!! lol... I have four Apple devices currently, MacBook Pro (Early 2009), 2nd gen iPad, Mac mini (late 2012) and an iPhone 12 Pro - soon to get a Mac Studio!!! I'm really guessing that my issue is related to the fact that three of my current four devices are more than 10 years old even though they all have the latest OS that they can run. I was initially only having a keychain issue where passwords stored in Keychain weren't synching up across my devices but I was mainly using my Mac mini and trying to go to websites that required an ID/password when I discovered the problem. I later discovered that my Voice Memo's and my address book were not all synching properly. Again, I suspect the age of my devices. Who knows if anything else wasn't synching - you just don't know what you don't know. I have talked to Apple senior advisors several times and we went through several troubleshooting steps which pretty much weren't conclusive. I ended up saving all my voice memos to my computer and manually cleaned up my address book. I'm now seeing the same number of contacts in my address book and same number of passwords stored on iCloud on my iPhone and Mac mini. The other two will most likely be going away in the near future. This has all been a bit disconcerting considering you don't really know what all iCloud is really synching and it really doesn't tell you when things get out of wack either. Apple isn't much help in terms of available resources to tell it's users what all the gory details are in what iCloud is actually doing. Steve Job's big thing was that "It just works!!!" That's fine until something doesn't work the way they were designed. In this case I had to talk to several techs because even their tech people aren't consistent in doing their troubleshooting. Oh well, issue is resolved as far as I know...
I appreciate the kind words @Carlos_Cortez_art_spot! Although it's time to update the video as it's slightly outdated, but still valid. Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Yes @Rob Kelman, it's designed to be for safari, however there is an extension you can integrate if you use Google Chrome and I believe Microsoft Edge. I'll link it down below for reference: iCloud Passwords chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-passwords/pejdijmoenmkgeppbflobdenhhabjlaj? If you're on a Windows device you can also install an iCloud Application that allows you to sync passwords too. I have a video about this that I will also link below for reference: iCloud for Windows 11 - How to INSTALL & SYNC your APPLE DEVICES to your WINDOWS PC WIRELESSLY! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-By46jC9unzg.html I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
iCloud key chain works great. Since we use Windows at work I’m really disappointed that Microsoft is discontinuing the Apple Watch version of MS Authenticator
It really does work great @G T! I'm not surprised with that though....Apple and Microsoft are always a constant battle unfortunately! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
I hear ya @Fred Farnackle! It can be information overload sometimes! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Thats how people get hacked! Putting your passwords in the "system" means they are packaged in a place where it can get hacked. I know you'll say it cant get hacked.. and this is true, until it does. No Thank You.
I won't argue with your theory on that @RANC! I think with any online system from any company like Apple, Google, 1Password, LastPass or anything else there is always a chance of being exploited and hacked. My biggest feedback would be for users to understand the risk and find what's best for them. Some users like good ol' fashioned pen and paper notebook filled with their passwords and such and that's cool too. Whatever works. I appreciate your insight and contribution! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
A really good video, teaching information. Fairly well-paced (so MANY others simply race through). Also, you actually SHOW where the options are, which screen and you scroll up or down as needed (again, so MANY others simply assume you already know where & how). One point I wish you had given more info: ‘Use Another Service’ such as using FaceBook or Google or Apple to actually access… Does this ‘share’ info from one to the other? Does Apple now know about Chipotle? Does Chipotle’s now know about Apple? If so, WHAT info do they share? I’m a fairly new user of the Apple Ecosystem, having been attracted by the tight integration between phone, tablet & desktop. Google/Android really does not have this. And I don’t use Windows, I use Linux on my desktops & laptops. Now I also have a (newer 2020) 27” iMac, with a couple of older (2012) iMac Minis for practicing/experimenting. also have the Apple Watch (first watch in twenty years!). Also a current iPhone 13 Pro Max (alongside my Samsung Galaxy Note), all to help me learn. It is fantastic (actually, to me, it is Science Fiction) that I can text, talk and video with my family, no matter WHAT Apple product I am using… iPhone iPad iMac Watch….. us more mature folk remember Dick Tracy’s “Wrist Phone”!! I surely wish Apple showed more ‘Linux Love” for us Boxen Fans. P.S. Subscribed. Thanks.
Joel, this is an awesome video. Your explanations are so clear and easy to follow and so well organized. I have had many of the problems you have discussed with regards to auto filling in the website; I probably missed a step when changing a password. When I tried to login-my password would not work. I have been using keychain, but at your suggestion I guess I will stop. Thanks again.
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Great question @CAMERON LAWOFFICES! Yes, you should be able to do the same thing with mobile apps and financial websites/apps. I use iCloud Keychain to create strong passwords for all my bank, stock, crypto accounts. I pretty much use it for every website and app. So you should be able as well. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and SUPER THANKS! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Joel, an absolutely great explanation of Passwords. Thank you again so very much. You really have the knack of explaining it so well. My1Password account has expired and I am choosing not to renew and use Keychain instead. Have an M2 Air and iPhone 13. How do I go about changing/updating my old passwords in keychain since I do have a warning of the sites being compromised.
I appreciate you and your kind words @Rob Mo! There's no real magical way to update old passwords in mass. Here's what I did. I exported all my passwords to a spreadsheet and then I was able to see which ones had old passwords and not strong ones. Then it's pretty much a manual process from there. I would click on the URL and do a password reset for each one. It's time consuming, but well worth it in the end. Do it little by little and just keep record on your spreadsheet. Hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
I appreciate that @Francesca Faulkner! I used to use 1Password and Google Passwords, which both worked great, but the ability for iCloud Keychain to integrate with FaceID and TouchID is a deal breaker for me! It works so well! Making this video inspired myself to clean up some passwords and accounts on my personal Mac! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
I’m going to watch and learn. Joel I misplaced my phone a couple of days ago. Found it right away. But made me think. What do I do it I lose my phone ? Who do I call and ho and what do I do? What info do I need to have in another place ? Thanks for any advise to help me prepare for the worse 👍
Great question @Curtis Saunders! I don't have a video on this topic yet, but I will eventually! You would want to use the feature called "Find My". This allows you to log into www.icloud.com and track where your device is at. Theres actually an app called Find My for iPhones/iPads and the Mac. Long story short, because all of the Apple devices a user would have uses the same Apple ID, it allows you to track, lock and erase any of your devices. It's pretty slick! I'll link an Apple Support article below for reference: Use the Find My app to locate a missing device or item support.apple.com/en-us/HT210515 Thank you for the continued support! I’m glad this video was helpful! If you learned something new and want to support my channel, click SUPER THANKS! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
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Thank you so much for making the awesome video. Everything works great on my iMAC. However, when I move to changing my password on my iPhone 12 mini, it doesn't auto fill and it doesn't give me the option to change the password. It is running Version iOS 17.03. Is it possible that my phone is too old?
Hi, I just stumbled on this video cause I wanted to know what exactly Keychain is and what it does. I was excited from the get go but at the beginning it says to first start, you have to start off with 2 factor authentication , and I'd find them in your Videos. I'm sorry but I looked and can't find it. Can you please help me. I won't go forward with this video until then, thanks I'll wait. Great Video
Great video mate, nice and in depth tutorial. It’s funny that technology was supposed to make life easier and simpler 😀 , but it actually makes you you jump through hoops way more often , and at times can really do your head in. Thanks for this video sir !
I agree with you @mikldude, technology should make some things easier! It doesn't help that it changes so quickly that once you feel like you have a good grasp on it, things change! Being able to adapt to change is extremely important, and also patience. Lots of patience! :-) Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Fantastic question @EllisKaiXOXO! No it does not only work for websites, it works for Apps! I literally have all apps saving the username and passwords in iCloud Keychains. It works so well! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been beneficial, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.
I expect I am missing something important. But from what I think you said in the video, if I login to my computer, I have, in effect, also logged into Keychain. If I have a weak computer login, then I also have a weak Keychain login. How can I set the system up so that I can have a weak computer login and a strong keychain login? Also does using keychain mean that every machine/device that is on a given Apple Id is also in keychain. Again, this seems like another reason for having a different login for keychain.
Can you do a video about the Auto-Lock feature. On all my Apple devices Auto-Lock always locks them way sooner than the time I set them to. For instance, if I set to 5 minutes it dims at 2min 20sec and then locks at 2min 30sec.
I really enjoy how Joel explains - and it is probably the best tutorial on that topic. What is a bit frustrating that he stopped when it comes to keychain. I guess, that is where also the difference between websites and apps are happening. I would really like to maintain pw for apps on a Mac.
Hi @Michael-ht3ox! Don't worry, if I didn't cover everything in here, there will be more to come. Lots has change with passwords and new features called passkeys! More to come on this topic! I appreciate you more than you know! Thank you for your continued support! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!
Thanks @Kylie and great question! So assuming that whomever unlocks your phone either knows the passcode, steals your fingerprint while sleeping, or forces you to have your eyes open for FaceID, then yes they would have access to all of your passwords. But really that would be no different than having your passwords stored in Google, 1Password, LastPass, etc. Phones today hold so much important information that it really can be a disaster if someone with cruel intentions gets it. So what options to users have? (I'm not recommending anything specifically, but just calling out things as food for thought as I think this is an awesome question and great conversation starter)! A hand written journal/notebook Post-It notes A lucky brain that is able to mentally remember everything Another digital App (Google, 1Password, etc) A word document or other digital app with a separate password other than device password I'm really looking forward to some of the upcoming security features that Apple is bringing to passwords, but then again, if someone has all of your info on the device, it may or may not defeat the purpose. I think the best thing users can do is keep a secure complex passcode/password on their devices and turn on other security features like two-factor authentication or two-step verification. I think this will always be a cat and mouse game with security. I hope my rambling makes sense! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
I have hundreds of websites built up over the years, to employ these methods to update passwords would require months of effort - does the new approach to passwords being offered by Apple at the recent WWDC overcome such issues?
Thanks @Body Mind Love! Keychains is Apple's password manager and only syncs within Safari. Google has their own Google Passwords which only syncs among Chrome. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t subscribed already and would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and use the THANKS button! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Apple for sure has introduced some new features to the Keychain Passwords. Time to update and create another video! Thanks so much for watching @Adam K! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Hey Joel when I was clearing system caches on my mac I accidentally created duplicates of all caches which got saved in macintosh and I can’t locate it as where it is . Could you please help me locating and clearing it ?
Great question @Blademan7! Well kinda...Once you setup the verification code process it will be available on all of your devices, but it will not sync the same security code to all devices. Each will usually display a different one. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and SUPER THANKS! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
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Hi Joel … I have really been enjoying your videos. Thanks for creating them. I just watched a video on RU-vid that took the position that KeyChain was not a good option because KeyChain doesn’t have its own password that you, as a user set. If your phone falls into the hands of the bad guys it takes them about 20 minutes to break your passcode and then they would have access to all your passwords.
does Apple have a place where I can save PIN for payment cards, account numbers, etc.? something like in 1Password that you can save your payment card details, PIN, account numbers, etc.
Hi @prov31! Remember you can adjust the playback speed for videos and slow it down! It works great! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
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1Password is pretty good. I used to use it a while back, but the integration of iCloud Keychain has improved over the years and now I'm sold on it the way it syncs and uses FaceID and TouchID
