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Apple might reveal a new “Passwords” app next week (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Nice! The current one being „hidden“ in the settings app is a bit annoying to reach

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Use this shortcut from Ricky Mondello, the lead for Apple’s password development team.

I get the feeling they wanted to do a Passwords app for some time but needed to get, probably executive-level, buy-in to get it done.

Apple will get bad PR about this: they are “Sherlocking” password managers. 1Password will write a blog post about how this is actually good for them because now password management is mainstream; 3rd party password managers will decide to focus more on the enterprise market; Microsoft will come out with a competing password manager that re-uses the name of a previous product and is bundled with Edge, etc. How it always goes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Haha, love the Microsoft joke. Very accurate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There’s no need for that Shortcut anymore, there’s a dedicated shortcut action from Apple now (Shortcut example)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks. That’s good to know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I created a shortcut to it and pinned that to the Home Screen. Works great, but yeah, you shouldn’t have to

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Seems off to me. On Mac they abandoned the standalone keychain app in favor of the settings app just last year (IIRC). Why would they turn around and go in the opposite direction so soon after that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The keychain app is still there, and it still works as it always did

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh damn, thanks for letting me know. I got the alert saying they were in settings when I opened up keychain and assumed they were permanently moved not like “hey you can also find them there”. Great news, I much prefer the keychain app.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Bc it's confusing as fuck? An App is the way to go for sure.