- Designed for Apple users, the Passwords app is compatible with various Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, and VisionOS devices.
- The iOS 18 Passwords app consolidates all passwords in one place, providing a more user-friendly interface for managing credentials.
- Setting up the Passwords app is straightforward, requiring only an upgrade to iOS 18.
iOS 18 made a splash as a huge release for iPhone users recently. It brought many updates and improvements such as to the Photos, Notes, Messages, and other apps. One such notable improvement is the new iOS 18 Passwords app that brings all your passwords in a single place for better password management. Moreover, it puts the newly built-in password manager in line with competitors such as LastPass and 1Password.
Perhaps it’s not that it’s here, but you might want to know how to use it, right? Well, let’s dig into what the app is all about and how you can master it to protect your access to apps and services on iPhones with a gold layer of end-to-encryption and security.
What is the New iOS 18 Passwords App all About?
When you go online, you need passwords to stay secure on a website be it banking, social media, email clients, etc. However, creating too many ‘difficult’ passwords makes it difficult to remember and that’s where Touch ID and Face ID came into being as a more secure form of passwords.
Password managers (such as iCloud Keychain) come loaded with all your accounts and their passwords, protected by Face ID. This means that whenever you set a password with any account and save credentials for autofill later, you invoke password managers to secure all these passwords.
Your device can liaise with whenever you want to log in to a particular account. Moreover, you can access all your saved passwords on these password managers without requiring to visit individual accounts to track passwords.
Talking about the all-new iOS 18 Passwords App has been improved upon iCloud Keychain to create stronger credentials. Made for Apple users, the Passwords app is now more in-tuned with competitors such as LastPass and 1Password which people have been using lately.
The iOS 18 Passwords app lets you tidy up your online credentials, store strong passwords, protected by Face ID, and let you know of any compromised accounts of breach alert. It buys you time to change the passwords of the accounts in question before intruders can break in and cause havoc.
With iOS 18 Passwords App, you get unified access to all your passwords on all your paired devices. It comes on-board iOS 18 (check compatibility list), VisionOS 2, macOS Sequoia, and iPadOS 18 covering all your Apple devices seamlessly.
How To Set Up The iOS 18 Passwords App?
To set up an iOS 18 Passwords app, you need iOS 18 on-board (of course, it is an iOS 18 native app). The previous iOS versions have iCloud Keychain. Once you upgrade, you will see the Passwords app on the home screen aptly labeled as ‘Passwords’.
Usually, everything from iCloud Keychain is migrated to Passwords, although there are limitations on third-party app managers as of now.
All the passkeys, Wi-Fi passwords, and security credentials are stored in the Passwords app, and it is secured by Face ID. The app allows you to create groups of contacts that you want to share passwords with such as for streaming services. You can use the AutoFill feature for passwords via Settings >> AutoFill & Passwords to fill the passwords as and when you want. Additionally, it lets you turn it ON and OFF at your will.
