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  1. nfable

    Open Passwords or Keychain Access - How to change behavior of looking up passwords

    Hi, on a new MacOS user account when you go to open Keychain Access to look up a password, the system gives you the option to Open Keychain Access or to Open Passwords - the newer, easier (imo) option in Sys Preferences. I had selected KA, and 'Do not show again' but now wish for that lookup...
    • nfable
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    • keychain access passwords
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS
  2. T

    Best way to transfer Keychain from Monterey to Sonoma when doing clean install?

    I'm having issues with my 2019 27" i9 iMac running Monterey 12.7.1. Apple Support agreed the best approach would be to do a complete disk wipe, install Sonoma, and then install my applications from scratch (i.e., a clean install, rather than using Migration Assistant, which would bring over all...
  3. RazorBackXX

    Keychain Password Help For Unlocking My USB FlashDrive

    ok fellas, I need y'all. I did a clean install of macOS Sonoma & didn't realize I had encrypted The USB. when I plug it in it ask for a password I don't remember it but I remember saving it to keychain. but its not In my iCloud Keychain. I think it was saved to the local keychain which is gone...
    • RazorBackXX
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    • flash drive icloud keychain keychain keychain access macbook macos sonoma password password recovery usb
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS
  4. P

    forgotten old macbook password

    i have my new macbook pro. i wanna transfert my keychain data to my new macbook but i forget my old password. i have Time machine but also use the some password that i forgot. currently i have the login.keychain but i can't access to any password because i have to enter the old macbook password...
    • petermacbook
    • Thread
    • forgetting password keychain access old and new macbook
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: macOS
  5. AF_APPLETALK

    Keychain Apps

    Does anyone know of a good 3rd party app that lets you browse through/interact with your Keychain? They made a lot of progress in Ventura with the newer passwords interface in System Preferences, err, System Settings, but there's things missing like Secure Notes and such that you can only get...
  6. MaiKAimer

    Apple Persistent State Encryption in Keychain

    I was looking around in my Keychain Access App in the past few days and I noticed a weird phenomenon that the login item Apple Persistent State Encryption can randomly become unrestricted. Normally, every time I login to my account a new item of Apple Persistent State Encryption is created, with...
  7. 6

    Are macOS notes with password as secure as Notes in Keychain Access?

    I store a lot of important stuff in "Secure Notes" within Keychain Access on macOS. See example here. Unfortunately these entries cannot be viewed on iOS and iPadOS. One could use the Notes.app, which syncs to iPhone and iPad. Such notes in the Notes.app are can be secured with a password. See...
    • 6916494
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    • keychain access macos notes app
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS
  8. D

    Secure Note Password

    Hello, I'm using Big Sur 11.4, I just changed the (MacBook Air) login password and straight away I can't get access to my Secure Notes in Keychain Access, the old password doesn't work either. I changed the password back to what it was originally and that didn't work either. I tried creating a...
    • davids9317
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    • keychain access notes password password change
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS
  9. C

    Tech help Keychain

    I am having problem with my keychain. I'm being asked to enter it all the time. I have found a solution I believe but it asks me to access my login keychain, and I don't have one. There are only three 1. Local items 2 System 3. System roots OS 10.9.5. Yes its old. Not my laptop. Helping...
  10. Amin Mirlohi

    keychain access problem

    Hi our University has some websites with URLs like dining.x.y.com, library.x.y.com and else they all have that "x.y.com" part and they have different login passwords. when I save password for one of them, it changes for others because keychain thinks they are. one site and that is driving me...
    • Amin Mirlohi
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    • keychain keychain access password
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS
  11. I

    iCloud Keychain not syncing down to macOS Keychain Access

    I tried this post in the macOS forum, with no replies. Any thoughts over here? Thanks! :) ************************************************************************** I recently had my iMac hard drive upgraded (High Sierra, 10.13.6), and afterwards have had a problem with Keychain Access...
  12. I

    iCloud Keychain not syncing down to Keychain Access

    I recently had my iMac hard drive upgraded (High Sierra, 10.13.6), and afterwards have had a problem with Keychain Access. Despite several attempts to turn off/on keychain and iCloud on my iMac, I can't seem to get Keychain Access (and therefore Safari passwords) to pull my saved iCloud...
    • IceMan30
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    • high sierra (mac os 10.13) icloud keychain keychain access macos passwords safari sync
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS
  13. walterhpdx

    Keychain - Search by password

    Is there a way to search Keychain passwords for a specific password? I know if I want to find out my password for GMail, I can go and search Keychain for "Google" or "GMail" and Keychain will find sites that match and allow me to get my password. But this is different. I want to find out what...
  14. L

    Keychain login problems

    MBP, mojave 10.14.2. upon log out/log in, restart, cold start after entering user name and password i get 8 password requests from keychain access, 7 ‘core’ services and safari for the user/me keychain. why would this happen? i’ve spent the last 3hours trying to figure this out between keychain...
  15. london_fog_646

    Question about local Keychain access items

    Hi, I'm looking into the Keychain Access app and seeing a few items there that I am unfamiliar with. Can someone clarify what these items are and if I should be concerned about any of them? I'm posting the name of these items and the items found within their Access Control in parentheses. Some...
  16. S

    I changed my admin password but forgot my keychain password! Now I’m locked out! What can I do?

    I used migration assistant to transfer my old and very dead macs hard drive to a MacBook Pro 15”. All seemed to be going well until I forgot my admin password so I changed it in safe mode. Now it wants my keychain password for multiple sign ins and I don’t remember it. Without it it seems I...
    • Stoopy007
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    • 2009 macbook pro keychain keychain access macbookpro
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: macOS
  17. J

    Keychain Access can't open any certificate

    Hey guys! i'm having a bit of a problem with my Keychain Access. I'm running macOS High Sierra (10.13.2). I need to mark some of my certificates I keep in the Login Keychain as "Trusted". I open the keychain, I log in with my administrator password, I try to double click on (any) certificate...
    • JaXMa
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    • certificate certificates trust keychain keychain access
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  18. S

    Keychain on Maccbook Air, High sierra

    Dear Forum members I'm new to mac, I have a macbook Air running on High sierra. (after some web search), I found that I can save passwords on Mac's native keychain Is it ok to use keychain on High sierra ? if not ok, what else to use ? and if it is ok (to use Mac's native Keychain) , what...
    • Subu
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    • high sierra keychain keychain access macbook air passwords
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: MacBook Air
  19. H

    Security of safari saved passwords and autofill

    So, I downloaded Newegg onto my 10.5 iPad and when I went to login the app was able to access my safari saved passwords to autofill my password. It was able to do this without me even using touchID or putting in my device passcode. On top of this, the app has the option to "show" the...
    • HylianKnight
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    • keychain keychain access password security
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: iOS 10
  20. F

    Apps Installing new Apple Watch screwing up iPhone apps?

    I haven't installed a new Apple Watch app until now. I installed a few free ones and deleted a couple. About 3-5 minutes later, I was in an email app, then all of the sudden I get a message saying "Tweetbot would like access to Twitter Accounts" I wasn't even in Tweetbot! I launched Tweetbot...
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