How to turn off Strong Password Suggestions on iPhone

Hi AppleDude909.

If you are using AutoFill Passwords as mentioned in Automatically fill in strong passwords on iPhone there is no way to stop the suggestions of a strong password.

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Toddofapple wrote:

Work around: Settings > passwords > turn off auto fill passwords.

Open app that needs new password, enter both new and confirmation new password, don’t confirm yet, go back to settings > passwords > turn on auto fill passwords, then go back to app and confirm. Then it’ll ask if you want to save this new password.

Wouldn't it be faster just to dismiss the strong password suggestion by tapping "Choose My Own Password" at the bottom of the pop up?

I'm having this exact issue with my Hive heating. Hive only let you change your password on the phone app; however, because of this Apple Stong password suggestion, it is literally impossible to do so. Crazy such a flaw can be allowed to exist within iOS!

Edit: Found a fix, if you temporarily turn 'Autofill Passwords' off, do what you need to do password wise, and then you can turn it back on.

Easiest solution

Touch the password box once, then touch it AGAIN. Touch AUTOFILL in the pop-up. Touch your password from the autofill menu. This by-passes any use of a suggestion or need to ignore it. Simples!

To keep autofill but turn off strong password suggestions ➡️ settings >account> icloud> Keychain & passwords >turn off sync. This stops passwords being stored in iCloud, so you need to have set autofill for each device.

I figured it out! You have to turn off iCloud Keychain.

Turn off your iCloud Password & Keychain

Work around: Settings > passwords > turn off auto fill passwords.

Open app that needs new password, enter both new and confirmation new password, don’t confirm yet, go back to settings > passwords > turn on auto fill passwords, then go back to app and confirm. Then it’ll ask if you want to save this new password.

You can suggest it to Apple→Product Feedback - Apple

Turning "Autofill Passwords" off did the trick - thank you.

On the very bottom, underneath the suggestion is a small keyboard. Click it.

Nothing is broken. The system is working as intended. If you don't want to use a strong password suggestion, you can dismiss it.

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It is not working as intended.

As mentioned by Ceili33,

If we have multiple textfields for updating a password, namely a "new" password textfield and "confirm" new password textfield.

You will be prompted to use the auto generated strong password when focusing the new password textfield, you can choose to say "no", and enter your own password.

The issue is that as soon as you focus on the "confirm" new password texttfield, it will prompt you again and erase what you had entered in the new password textfield!!!!

Even if you specify both fields with "new password" textContentType as mentioned in documentation when dealing with these two types of fields.

Apple's auto fill/generate strong password feature doesn't properly handle the case when you have two fields to enter and confirm new password, nevermind if you also want an old password textfield. (AWS Amplify needs old and new password for their change password API)

It does not work properly

It actually just keeps prompting and erasing what was previously written in the password fields everytime you switch from one to the other.

“Simple work around. Go to your iCloud the Passwords and Keychain and turn that off. Take care of your business and go back and turn it back on.”

even more "simple" would be for Apple to give users the option to not prompt for a suggested password when there are obviously many users who would prefer to always use their own passwords. this kind of feature used to be called a "Preference", while now it seems Apple has called it a "Setting". regardless what one calls it, this would seem to be the remedy to the problem.

Major major glitch that needs immediate attention when app asks to enter password second time to confirm gives a completely different password suggestion and when try to put manually your own password to bypass it erases the first one when trying to re enter the second time. This isn’t something that they can just work on in their own time but needs hot fix now