One of the smaller announcements that popped up during the WWDC 2024 event was the Passwords app, which expands on the existing Keychain feature. With this, Apple now has a standalone app that can manage passwords and passkeys on multiple devices.
In the brief moment that it was showcased, the Passwords app is home to all of your passwords, verification codes, and even security alerts. That first one on the list can apply to WiFi networks, apps and websites.
The second one serves as Apple’s version of the Google Authenticator app, though since it’s a feature in the app itself, it saves you the need to use a separate app for it. The notification bit is a bit much, but in a sense it’s good that everything is accessible from the same app.
Mark Gurman of Bloomberg recently claimed that Apple would be introducing its own first-party password management app, and it looks like this Password app is it. And for good reason too, to some extent, as third party password managers themselves are not entirely free from security issues themselves. LastPass comes to mind as having been hacked in recent memory.
As you’d expect, Passwords works on all of Apple’s own platform, which includes iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and VisionOS. A surprise inclusion here is Windows via iCloud, but in the same vein, a surprise exclusion is Android.
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