How to turn off Strong Password Suggestions on iPhone

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.

kucerajd wrote:

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.

Tell Apple:

Product Feedback - Apple

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 .

Precious_Martina wrote:

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 .

So, you've talked to EVERYONE who owns an iPhone and asked them their opinion on this and EVERYONE said they don't like it? No, I didn't think so. In fact, I happen to like it so, not EVERYONE.

Also, Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts (which are no doubt contradicted by all the usage information Apple has) here:

Product Feedback - Apple

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.

I'm going to school for IT and part of the lab is entering username and passwords but safari always recognizes it and asks to generate a password, its so annoying and I never would imagine to use this feature because I have a couple passwords that I need to know to log onto other non-apple devices. There's no way for this randomly generated password thing to work for any of my logins. They NEED to allow us to disable this feature

Junk111 wrote:

Just turn it off. Chrome just allows a user to save their own password without “suggesting” this nonsense. In this case Apple, be more like Alphabet.

Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

This is an awful function! Not only can’t I read or remember the password but half the time it won’t remember it so I have to do everything all over again! This is right up there with having the worst phone keyboard in the world!!

You are absolutely right!

Exactly what I’m dealing with now. Maddening.

Same here, this is so freaking stupid. Apple, please fix your iOS.