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All Safari passwords deleted in Keychain

Has anyone ever had something like this happen?

Earlier today keychain had all of my passwords stored that I have been keeping for I don't know how long. I just noticed that none of them are there on any of my devices (Mac mini, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro).

I unchecked Keychain in the iCloud Preferences on my Mac mini and POOF its gone every where. The setting is still ticked, but autofill no longer works and when I go into the Passwords section of Safari preferences there is nothing there. I have enabled and disabled keychain before on computers I temporarily did not want be able to use all of my passwords. When you uncheck keychain in preferences it says that passwords in the cloud will remain so how can all my passwords on all devices now be gone?


Posted on Jul 13, 2020 2:50 AM

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User profile for user: tygb
tygb
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Posted on Jul 13, 2020 8:36 PM

In new Mac the account is set up with secondary authentication or 2FA ? did you unchecked the box of keychain when all other devices were signed in with same Apple ID and password , the latest viewed website passwords or Apple ID passwords might not be saved in keychain access as settings is not appropriate and configured successfully .

To view the a-password see the article https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/keychain-access/kyca1085/mac

https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/keychain-access/kyca1083/mac

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tygb
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Jul 13, 2020 8:36 PM in response to meadowmountain

In new Mac the account is set up with secondary authentication or 2FA ? did you unchecked the box of keychain when all other devices were signed in with same Apple ID and password , the latest viewed website passwords or Apple ID passwords might not be saved in keychain access as settings is not appropriate and configured successfully .

To view the a-password see the article https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/keychain-access/kyca1085/mac

https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/keychain-access/kyca1083/mac

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Jul 13, 2020 1:47 PM in response to tygb

Thank you, I have checked all of that. Everything is turned on the way it should be and always has been. The only device where I unchecked keychain was my brand new Mac mini which shouldn't affect my other devices yet somehow it seems like it has.


I there any way to undo this or does my Mac store store old keychain copies somewhere that I could try to unlock?

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All Safari passwords deleted in Keychain

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