iCloud Keychain PASSWORDS on your iPhone, iPad and Mac! - IT'S TIME to get your PASSWORDS ORGANIZED!

Managing your passwords can be extremely frustrating. In this video we will look at Apple’s iCloud Keychain as a method to create, save and manage your passwords across all of your Apple devices.

The biggest benefit of using iCloud Keychain on your iPhone, iPad or Mac is the ability to use FaceID or TouchID and not have to manually input anything! Because of the integration, you can easily create a strong password and just use your FaceID or TouchID to access any account.

We will also look at more secure options of Verification codes, Microsoft Authenticator App and Apple’s Hide My Email feature that allows your personal email address to be hidden by website and companies.

*All accounts and passwords in this video have all been deleted or changed :-)

00:00 | Welcome Back!
01:01 | What is iCloud Keychain and what is the benefit of using it?
01:46 | Requirements to use iCloud Keychain Passwords
02:25 | How to find iCloud Keychain Passwords on a Mac
04:31 | How to turn on iCloud Keychain on an iPhone or iPad
05:34 | How to save a new strong password from a website in iCloud Keychain on your Mac
05:41 | Detecting Compromised Passwords
10:17 | How to save a new strong password on your iPhone
12:19 | Autofill Passwords setting for iCloud Keychain
15:42 | What happens when iCloud Keychain doesn’t suggest a strong password?
18:04 | How to delete a Password from iCloud Keychain
18:36 | How to export your iCloud Keychain Passwords to a spreadsheet file
19:32 | How to import passwords into iCloud Keychain
20:04 | Using AirDrop to share an iCloud Keychain Password
20:38 | Setting up a Verification code for extra security
21:18 | Setting up Verification code with Microsoft Office using iPhone
24:32 | Setting up Microsoft Authenticator on an iPhone to use Passwordless Account
28:03 | What is Keychain Access on the Mac?
29:17 | What is Hide My Email and How do I use it?
35:14 | Setting up iCloud Keychain Passwords on a Windows Computer

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[billycullen]

Always brilliant no silly talk, just great straight talking tuition! Really appreciate your education Joel. Greetings from Scotland!

[haveagreeenday]

Wow! this video includes everything a user needs to know about handling passwords. Great work Joel!

[collinwood]

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!

[CAMTechChris]

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!!

[davidl]

Really well done ! The lights are now on !!

[Jugin]

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.

[jglove]

Thank you very much! Very useful video,

[francescafaulkner]

Great video! This is something I’ve been wanting to do, but wasn’t sure where to start. Thank you.

[word]

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.

[chessforfunonly]

Very good and clear information. Thanks, Joel!

[rogerf]

Very through laydown. Thx. Learned a bit.

[imranbohari]

Great video, learned a ton. Thank you.

[nickyhathiramani]

Excellent Tutorial, keep up the good work.

[djba]

Hi Joel … I have really been enjoying your videos. Thanks for creating them.
I just watched a video on YouTube 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.

[Michael-htox]

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.

[voiceofreason]

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?

[nazirajanmohamed]

Can you talk about App Store, as I travel (UK) and need to download an app not available on my Canadian App Store. Is there a way around this?

[GarryBurgess]

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.

[ernestgalvan]

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.

[robmo]

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.