How to Find and Manage Saved Passwords on iPhone

Sep. 1, 2023

In today’s world, where everything has turned digital, it’s common to have different accounts and passwords. However, it gets extremely difficult to remember all your passwords. Thankfully, Apple offers a supremely handy built-in password manager, that lets you securely store passwords on your iPhone. Every time you log in to a website on Safari, it will ask you if you want to save the password for that website. All of these passwords are stored in iCloud Keychain. If you’re wondering how to view them, we are here to help you. In this article, we’ll show you how to find and manage saved passwords on iPhone. Let’s get started right away!

Find Saved Passwords on iPhone

Once you’ve added passwords to your iCloud Keychain, you can view them using any of the below methods.

Now that you can see passwords on your iPhone, you need to know how to add, delete, edit, and share the saved passwords in iCloud Keychain. We’ve mentioned everything below. Let’s check them out one by one.

When you sign up for a service or log in to a website, you’re prompted to add the password to your Keychain. If you missed this step, you can manually save a password on your iPhone using the below steps.

Editing a saved password on iPhone is as easy as viewing it. If you notice that you’re using one password for multiple accounts, you can change it to avoid any issues. You can edit a saved password directly from iPhone Settings or the website/app itself. When you choose the latter option, you’ll be asked if you want to save the new password on your iPhone.

You also have the option to share your saved passwords on iPhone. Since the passwords are stored in iCloud Keychain, you can only share them with Apple devices usingAirDrop.

Over time, your iCloud Keychain might get cluttered with a lot of old accounts and passwords that you don’t even use. In such cases, the best is to delete the passwords of those obsolete accounts and keep everything clean.

With the latestiOS 17, Apple gave its users the liberty to recover deleted passwords on iPhone. So, if you’ve mistakenly deleted a password, it will remain on your device for 30 days before it’s removed permanently. Here’s our step-by-step guide onhow to recover a deleted password on an iPhone.

AutoFill is a supremely handy feature that lets iPhone automatically fill up the passwords, when you log into a website on Safari. Once you’ve saved passwords on your iPhone, you don’t need to type in the complete password every now and then, your iPhone does it for you. Here’s how to enable this feature:

You can also sync all the saved passwords on your iPhone to other Apple devices where you’ve signed with the sameApple ID. You’ll have all your important passwords across all your devices so you can access them anytime.