How to use the Apple Passwords app

The latest Apple OS updates (iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia) introduced a standalone password app to make passwords, passkeys, Wi-Fi passwords and verification codes easily accessible to users.

You can access the Passwords app on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, and Windows using the iCloud for Windows app. All passwords are securely synced to iCloud Keychain so you can access them across all your devices. If you use AutoFill, you can have passwords automatically saved in the Passwords app.

The Passwords app lets you filter and sort accounts by creation date, credential type, or shared group status, making it easier to find the accounts you need.

App layout

The password app opens with Face ID or Touch ID

The app has separate sections for passwords and logins (“All”), passkeys, two-factor authentication codes, WiFi passwords, security alerts and deleted logins.

Passwords on iPhone

When you open a section, you can view its contents. When you select a login entry, fields are displayed for the entry's site or app name, username, password, notes, and last modified date.

Passwords on iPad and Mac

Add, edit and delete passwords

To create a new login or password, click the “+” at the bottom of the main interface. Add the website, app, or label, select a username and password you want to create, or select a strong password suggestion. Save the new entry.

Add new password

Strong password suggestion

New password details

To edit passwords, select the All section and then select the password credentials you want to edit. Click Edit in the top right to change the selected credentials. When you're finished editing, select Done.

Edit passwords

You can also delete passwords that you no longer need by selecting “Delete Password.”

View saved WiFi passwords

The Wi-Fi section allows you to view saved credentials for Wi-Fi networks.

Wi-Fi area network list

Selected network credentials

Security section of the Passwords app

The security section of the app will inform you if you have chosen easy-to-guess or reused passwords, or if that particular password has been compromised (e.g. appeared in public data leaks). If you click on a warning, you will be asked to change the password. You can select the “Change Password” button, which will open the website of the online service for which you should update the password.

Reused, compromised, easy-to-guess passwords

change password

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