Apple will reportedly build a dedicated Passwords app for the iPhone and Mac

 

According to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, Apple intends to include a password management tool directly into the upcoming releases of the Mac and iPhone operating systems on Thursday. The new program, Passwords, will take on established password managers such as 1Password and LastPass, which often charge users a monthly fee to create and store passwords that are unique. On June 10, Apple intends to introduce the app during the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference.

With iCloud Keychain, a tool that syncs passwords across all of your Apple devices and Windows PCs via a browser extension, Apple already creates and saves unique passwords. However, passwords saved in iCloud Keychain are oddly kept under the Settings app, making it difficult to find or modify them. Not only would this be made simpler, but having a password-specific app built into Apple devices would give users even more incentive to stick around.

According to reports, Apple's Passwords app will divide passwords into many categories such as accounts, WiFi networks, and Passkeys, just like its competitors (here's our in-depth explanation of how they operate). Additionally, you may import passwords from competing applications, and when your smartphone recognizes that you are entering into a website or app, it will automatically fill them in. Similar to Authy and Google Authenticator, passwords on Apple's $4,000 Vision Pro headset will likewise function and enable two-factor verification codes. Whether the Passwords app will allow you to safely store files and photographs in addition to passwords—something that LastPass and 1Password both offer—is still up in the air.

On Monday, Apple is anticipated to unveil Passwords as well as the upcoming iterations of iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and VisionOS. It is said that completely new AI functions would be included in the updated software versions.