How To Automatically Save Passwords On Iphone

How to Manually Add Passwords to Keychain on iPhone & iPad

Do you use iCloud Keychain to store your passwords to various online accounts? If so, did you know that you can manually add all your online accounts in one place, instead of heading over to their respective websites individually? Adding login information to iCloud Keychain is easy on iPhone and iPad.

By default, Keychain prompts you to save the account information whenever you sign-in to a website or an app, as long as the feature is enabled. Although this is convenient enough for most users, some of you might not want to deal with the trouble of going through several websites or opening multiple apps to save your accounts on Keychain. However, there's an alternate and quicker way to add passwords to Keychain that several users aren't aware of.

If you're interested in learning this alternate method so you can quickly add new accounts to Keychain on your iOS device, read on to learn how you can manually add passwords to Keychain on both the iPhone & iPad.

How to Manually Add Logins & Passwords to Keychain on iPhone & iPad

All the information related to iCloud Keychain is buried deep in the Settings app. So, if you're keen on viewing the saved accounts that are used by Keychain, and add more accounts manually in one place, simply follow the steps below carefully.

Open "Settings" app from the home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
In order to head over to the passwords section, scroll down and tap on "Passwords & Accounts" in the Settings menu.
Now, tap "Website & App Passwords". You will be asked to authorize with Face ID or Touch ID depending on the device you're using.
Here, tap on the "+" icon located at the top-right corner of the screen, right next to the Edit option.
This will pop up a menu from the bottom of the screen. Here, type in the website details, your account username and password, as shown in the screenshot below. Once you've filled the information, tap "Done" to exit this menu.
The newly added account will now be listed in the Keychain passwords section. You can repeat these steps to add as many accounts as you want, all in one place.

That's pretty much all the steps you need to follow to manually add passwords to iCloud Keychain. S

imilar to how you added new accounts to Keychain, you can also keep your Keychain accounts & passwords updated manually in the same section, this helps to make sure the feature doesn't autofill outdated information.

Once complete, these manually added accounts will function just the same way as any other account that has been added to Keychain after the prompt. You simply need to head over to the website that has been added and authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID, so that Keychain can autofill the details for you, making log-ins a lot faster and easier.

It's worth noting here that this manually added information gets synced across all your other Apple devices, as long as they're logged into the same Apple account. This is made possible with the help of iCloud and makes sure you have quick and easy access to all your log-in details, regardless of what device you're using.

Have you used any other password manager prior to Keychain? If so, you'd be quick to realize that iCloud Keychain has its fair share of negatives. It lacks certain basic features that you would expect out of a password manager, like alerting you in case of a security breach, or being able to change passwords without even leaving the app. This is why third-party password managers like LastPass or DashLane would be a more ideal solution.

Did you manually add new accounts and passwords to Keychain on your iPhone and iPad? What do you think about this nifty password manager that's baked into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices? Are you planning to try out a more effective third-party solution in the long run? Do let us know your thoughts and opinions in the comments section down below.