Password Manager

Full Title or Meme

A simplistic form of Vendor Relationship Manager provided with most browsers in 2021.

Context

• The Best Password Managers Wired Magazine 2021-11-17

Solutions

Apple

A great security feature coming to iOS 18 is a dedicated Passwords app. The iPhone has long been able to store passwords for websites and apps in your iCloud Keychain, and you could access these passwords and even associated two-factor authentication codes in the “Passwords” section of the Settings app. But because this functionality was fairly obscured and buried inside another app, many people weren’t even aware it existed.

That all changes with iOS 18 and the introduction of a dedicated Passwords app that not only stores your passwords and authentication codes but also makes it easy to manage them, choose to share them with others, and view security alerts about compromised passwords.

Best of all, the new Passwords app isn’t coming only to iOS 18. It will be available on all of Apple’s major operating systems, including macOS Sequoia and iPadOS 18. It’s even coming to Windows, so you can sync all your passwords whether you use a Mac or PC.

Currently iOS 18 is available in beta; it will be released to the general public in 2024-09.