What are all of these entries in my keychains?

hi,


I bought a Macbook Air last winter and haven't used it much (preferring my old MBP from 2009). I see now when I started it up in January it created 2 new keychains "Login" and "Local" that have 100s of keychain entries I didn't make and didn't import from my old Mac. I do not use iCloud and have everything iCloud related turned off/disabled for every setting I could find (although somehow it seems to be sucking up my keyboard preferences from my iphone and pushing it to this Macbook Air!)


Here's a sample of the type of things I've found in the keychains. What are these? Can I delete these? Why aren't these going into a "System" keychain like on my old Mac for things like networks etc.? Can I delete these keychains and import my keychains from my old MBP or open them remotely like I can with my old MBP and keychains stored on other volumes?


com.apple.iAdIDRecords <-there's a least a dozen of these


iCloud Keychain Account Meta-data


ids: ngm-message-protection-public-data-registered-version


ids: build-of-identity-generation


ids: message-protection-public-data-registered


com.apple.cloudd.deviceIdentifier.Production. <there's about 20 of these entries


com.apple.gs.icloud.storage.buy.com.apple.account.AppleIDAuthentication.token


com.apple.gs.tdm.auth.com.apple.account.AppleIDAuthentication.token


com.apple.gs.news.auth.com.apple.account.AppleIDAuthentication.token


com.apple.gs.global.auth.com.apple.account.AppleIDAuthentication.token


KeychainPersistentIdentifierCanaryPersistentIdentifier


com.apple.Transparency-rtc-reset-count-ucrt. <-many multiple of these with slight variations


com.apple.gs.beta.auth.com.apple.account.AppleIDAuthentication.token


com.apple.assistant


com.apple.NetworkServiceProxy.ProxyToken


Apple Persistent State Encryption


TelephonyUtilities


com.apple.ind.registration


AppleIDClientIdentifier


MetadataKeychain


ProtectedCloudStorage


com.apple.scopedbookmarksagent.xpc


Thanks for any advice!

Marlinespike

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Sep 24, 2022 2:54 PM

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What are all of these entries in my keychains?

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