If you don't want to manually enter your passwords every time you visit a site, you can save those website passwords on your iPhone and make your life easier. Here's how to save, view, and sync your iPhone passwords with other Apple devices
To save passwords, you can use AutoFill feature . This feature prompts you to save a password when you sign in to a website. If you later visit that site again, AutoFill automatically enters the password for you.
You can use your iPhone's saved passwords on Mac (and vice versa) by turning on iCloud Keychain on both devices. See below:
Step 1: Enable the AutoFill feature on your iPhone
- To enable AutoFill on iPhone, open Settings on your phone and tap “Passwords & Accounts“.
- Then, select “AutoFill Passwords“.
- Enable “AutoFill Passwords”.
That's it! The feature has been enabled on your device.
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Step 2: Save a website password on your iPhone
Once you have AutoFill enabled on your iPhone, open a site in the Safari browser and type in a password. Your phone will ask you to save that password.
This is done as follows: Open a site in the browser, log in to your account by entering your username and password . Then, press the login button.
Safari will ask you to save the password you entered. You can choose one of the following options:
- Save password: To save the password you entered on your phone, click this option.
- Never for this site: If you don't want Safari to ask you to save passwords for this site, click this option.
- Not Now: If you don't want to save the password right now, but want Safari to prompt you to do so in the future, tap this option.
If you selected “Save password,” Safari has saved your password. So the next time you visit that site and try to log in, your browser will automatically fill in the password for you.
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View saved passwords on your iPhone
If you decide to use the Autofill feature, you should know that you can also see a list of all the saved passwords on your iPhone. To do this, open Settings on your phone and select “Passwords & Accounts.”
Then, select “Website & App Passwords”.
Verify yourself using your preferred method.
You will see a “Passwords” screen that will list all your saved passwords. Here, you can manually review the list as well as use the “Search” box to find a specific password.
To add a password to this list, tap the “+” icon in the top right corner and write the details of the new password. If you want to remove a saved password, swipe left on that password and select “Delete”.
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Sync your iPhone's saved passwords via iCloud Keychain
Using iCloud Keychain, you can sync your iPhone's saved passwords with your other devices, such as your iPhone, iPad , or Mac, and vice versa.
To do this, you'll need to enable the feature on both your iPhone and the other Apple device.
To turn on iCloud Keychain on an iPhone, go to Settings > [Your iCloud name] > iCloud > Keychain and turn on “iCloud Keychain.”
On a Mac, enable iCloud Keychain by going to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Apple ID > iCloud and turning on the “Keychain” option.
Your saved passwords will now start syncing between all your Apple devices.
This way, you can connect to sites without having to remember and manually enter passwords.
Source: www.howtogeek.com
