How to Share Passwords with Family on iPhone and Mac

Sep. 19, 2023

How to share passwords and passkeys on iPhone

Note:To use the Shared Passwords and Passkeys feature, you and the people you wish to add must have installed iOS 17, iPadOS 17, or macOS Sonoma.

Here’s how to create Family Passwords group in iOS 17 on iPhone:

Just like your iPhone, you can share passwords and passkeys with family on Mac as well. Here’s how to do it:

Once you’ve created a group to share passwords, each participant and add/remove passwords and all the changes will be synced across the group. However,the group can only be deleted by the person who created it, other members get an option to leave the group. Just like regular passwords, shared passwords get stored iniCloud Keychainand are end-to-end encrypted. Also, you can create multiple groups for shared passwords. For instance, you can create one group to share passwords with your spouse, a separate one for kids, one for your siblings, and so on.