Using iCloud Keychain to save your account names and passwords for websites makes logging into your favorite sites a breeze. You don't have to remember many passwords and can use iCloud Keychain across your devices. It's a fantastic time-saver, except when you find iCloud Keychain not working.
If you're stuck and Safari on iPhone, iPad, or Mac isn't auto-filling your account information or details for your credit card, here are a few things to fix this issue.
Anytime you jailbreak an iOS device, one of the first things you’re ever advised to do is change your handset’s root password, which is commonly used to access elevated privileges in mobile terminal when entering complex commands. The password is always “alpine” out of the box, but users can change this to almost anything they want to increase their handset's security from a commonly-known password.
As imperative as changing the root password may be, many jailbreakers either forget to do so or shrug off its importance. For that reason, we’re particularly fond of a sleek concept that was shared to /r/jailbreak over the weekend that rethinks the way jailbreakers will interact with their root password after jailbreaking their handset for the first time.
In a world where shopping, banking, subscriptions, takeout, and pretty much everything else has been taken over by the Internet, the idea of remembering dozens of passwords at any given moment is exhausting. What's worse, clicking the "I forgot my password" button at login and going through the motions of resetting it is tedious if not frustrating. Luckily, there's an app that can help.
If you use iCloud Keychain to store and remember passwords, there may come a time when you want to view a particular password. Maybe you need it to log in on another device that doesn't have iCloud Keychain, or perhaps you are setting up a new password manager and need those details. Whatever the case, here's how to access iCloud Keychain passwords on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Modern-day iOS devices come equipped with advanced forms of biometric authentication right out of the box, such as Face ID or Touch ID, but you can still resort to an alphanumeric or numeric passcode if you wanted to.
It might seem counterproductive to do such a thing given just how fast and zippy Face ID and Touch ID have become, but a new jailbreak tweak release called Scribble by iOS developer Boo is sure to make you actually want to use your passcode interface over biometric authentication.
Secure sensitive files and folders on your Mac by learning how to encrypt and password-protect them using both built-in and third-party tools.
If you suck at remembering or creating strong passwords, you're going to love that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) yesterday approved Web Authentication (WebAuthn), a new authentication standard for password-free logins that's already supported by major browsers.
Follow these simple steps to reset your Apple ID password or your iCloud password if you forgot it.
Whether you use Apple’s Pages, Numbers, and Keynote applications for work or personal reasons, you might want to protect a document with a password. This can keep prying eyes from being able to access private files.
Once you set a password, no matter where you try to open that document, you’ll need the password. For instance, if you set a password for a Pages document on Mac, you’ll still need the password to open it on your iPad. This adds a nice layer of security to your most important files.
Here’s how to password-protect your Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Did you forget the password for your Apple Notes app? In this tutorial, we will show you how easily regain access to your locked notes on iPhone, iPad, and Mac by following these simple steps for resetting your password.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to securely send an account login username and password from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to another Apple device using AirDrop.
Everyone is guilty of reusing the same password over again. Even if you use a password management app or iCloud Keychain to remember them for you, chances are you have at least one password that you’ve used more than once. But, these days, online security is constantly becoming more of an issue.
With this in mind, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS have a built-in feature for auditing your passwords. You can quickly see which passwords you have used in more than one place, those that are weak or compromised, and take the opportunity to change them.
To protect yourself, your accounts, and your online presence better, here’s how to use password auditing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.