How can I sync internet accounts across all Apple devices?

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How can I sync internet accounts across all Apple devices?

I have an iPad, mac book air, and now an iPhone. Primarily I have been an Android and Windows 10 user but, I am moving most of my personal activity to Apple. I set up all my accounts in my mac book air and hoped that this would "flow" to the other devices. Is there a setting I am missing or some third party app? Since I have several accounts with very long and complicated passwords entering all of my internet account information into my iPhone is tedious, time consuming, redundant, and painful with my carpal tunnel.

Is there anyway to sync the accounts I have set up on my mac book air with my iPad and iPhone?

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Warmly

Dave

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Dec 18, 2020 5:19 AM

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Answer 1

LD150

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Dec 18, 2020 6:51 AM in response to davidrpalmer

email accounts are simply added in Settings, Mail and they will sync.

If you want to sign into the same web accounts while remembering the passwords ensure that Keychain is activated in icloud settings on all your devices.

You can add passwords manually to Keychain in

Settings, Passwords and tap the + sign and they will sync but may take many minutes to do so.

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davidrpalmer Author

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Dec 18, 2020 7:12 AM in response to LD150

Thank you. I may be mistaken but, it appears these directions are to set up all my accounts on my phone first. I have all my accounts set up on the mac book air and want it to sync to the phone. Is that possible?

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Dec 18, 2020 7:44 AM in response to davidrpalmer

Specifically for email you must add the accounts to each device separately. If they are IMAP or MS Exchange/Office 365 accounts they will all sync to the same server. This isn’t automatic, because you may not want all email accounts on all devices. Likewise for calendars. As far as syncing data, on each device go to iCloud settings and turn on the items that you want to sync. This will be real-time sync, so, for example, if you add a contact on your Mac it will appear on your phone within a few seconds.

On a Mac: MenuSystem Preferences - Apple ID

On an iPhone or iPad: Settings/[your name]/iCloud

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