How to turn off Strong Password Suggestions on iPhone

"Viewing and voting on other people's suggestions is not a feature that is offered." -- fully understood. that's why i said, " it would be wonderful if we could view all the suggestions & even vote on them.". i believe i have already made that suggestion as well, however, i've not yet found a good "catch all" for making general suggestions, not relative to a particular "app", other than writing the CEO. i hope this helps clear up my apparent miscommunication. 😎

infinityBBC wrote:

"Viewing and voting on other people's suggestions is not a feature that is offered." -- fully understood. that's why i said, " it would be wonderful if we could view all the suggestions & even vote on them.". i believe i have already made that suggestion as well, however, i've not yet found a good "catch all" for making general suggestions, not relative to a particular "app", other than writing the CEO. i hope this helps clear up my apparent miscommunication. 😎

And that's why I suggested the feedback page. Apple has made it pretty clear they are not going to expend the enormous amount of time it would take to parse these forums for feedback.

Something like password suggestions is a feature of the operating system, so, use the section of Feedback related to the operating system you're using. Ditto for any pre-installed apps. And, when you can't figure out the right place, do your best and make sure that you are clear in the text box. It will get figured out.

My guess is that sending suggestions like that to Mr. Cook is not going to accomplish much.

in a previous comment i posted: "other than emailing the CEO, if you know of a method for the user base to make such a suggestion, please let us know if there is a best way of doing so. thank you! ♾️😎"

"such a suggestion" is referring to issues where an "app" and/or "OS" is not relative. for example, this concept i would like to suggest, "it would be wonderful if we could view all the suggestions & even vote on them."

the lack of a password suggestion default in Safari or system password issues are fairly obviously to be directed toward the most relative app. however, Apple doesn't seem to offer (unless i missed it) a conduit for *general suggestions* not specific to either an app or the OS. for example, a way to vote on suggestions from the user base, or suggestions for sorely missing apps which the user base has often requested (ie: "Paint").

so besides sending such a suggestion to the CEO of Apple which you feel is not going to accomplish much, how would you suggest a user does so? thank you for your advice! 😎

as you can see, many of us users agree 100% that the way Apple implemented this feature for password suggestions without offering a preference (or setting) to never suggest is poor. so please make sure to go to the feedback page for Safari & suggest Apple fix this issue... and yes, it NEEDS fixing because it's broken ("broken" = Windows-esque). ;-)

His solution is supposed to work for everytime u try to sign in for that specific app/website. So no, in the long run it’s not faster to just click the “use my own password.” This is supposed to fix it so it doesn’t show up again. This is all just a huge pain in the ***

DeepFriedBaby wrote:

It’s the most useless feature. Suggests a flipping password I will never remember. What if I’m on a PC or a different device.

The password record is stored in your keychain and you can then access it from any Apple device that shares the same Apple ID. For non-Apple devices, you can look up the password in Settings>Passwords on your iPhone and copy it down.

DeepFriedBaby wrote:

I said PC. Windows computer. What if I'm on a shared device. It's a terrible idea. Yea, let me write on paper a 27 character password when i go weeks without needing to hand write anything.

As I noted in the post to which you are replying, the data is stored on your iPhone and you can look at it there. If you don't have an iPhone, I think you're in the wrong forum.

Typical Apple. I wish I could switch, but over the years I've integrated too many apps in my life. That's how they get you. There's so many problems, the app store and its search limitations being my greatest issue with apple. However, I am, as is implied by replying, incredibly annoyed with the horrible Strong password suggestion - make it stop, my password is already complex and I have an in depth method for creating my passwords based on various variables...

So are you saying there is no way to stop this???? I just upgraded to a new Macbook Air and a new iPhone 15 and on both of them, there is no way to stop them from automatically not just suggesting, but creating passwords when I really need to NOT HAVE THAT HAPPEN!

Before my upgrades, on my old iPhone and Macbook Pro, it would annoyingly suggest passwords but I could toggle to an option of creating my own, but now they are just putting them in. How can I stop that? I really don't even want suggestions.

Call me a Luddite but I really don't want a corporate AI setting all my passwords! This is an appalling situation IMHO

It is broken. iOS should not suggest a new strong password when logging into a website for which there is already a saved, user-defined password. iOS should prioritize the user’s existing saved password rather than force a new random password into the box.

I agree that this is especially bad when Safari (on both iPhone and Mac) suggests a strong password when trying to log into a site I already have a password for and am just trying to log in. More than once it has not allowed me to "choose my own" and before I could stop it, my logging failed and I had to try again. I don't know if I could stop it by turning off autofill but that too is a terrible inconvenience! We need to be able to customize this!

Thanks for replying to the OP. The suggestion is for Apple to remove this as an autofill when creating a new password on a site. It's bad. It freezes whatever you're trying to do and honestly, is the main reason to not use Safari, which is quite frustrating. Whether on my phone or Macbook, it's becoming less beneficial to use the native browser for anything.

APPLE REMOVE THE STRONG SUGGESTED PASSWORD NO ONE LIKES IT. It’s just another pain in the *** that is useful for no one, make an easy way to turn it off. It was perfect when it saved existing passwords but now yall can’t even use your brains. Get it together

Its one thing to add this annoying feature to our iPhone but its offensive how they believe fyvzap-tyvcuc-5Kufpo would be a good password << how are we suppose to remember that ? APPLE REVERSE IT NOBODY LIKES THE FEATURE .

It’s 100% broken. The passwords don’t save, they don’t meet security criteria for most websites, and it SHOULD NOT be linked to the keychain that saves passwords for websites.

I always want my password saved

I NEVER want to use an Apple generated password.

It’s still broken years later and still a terrible choice from Apple.