How can I view my main stored email account passwords on my iPhone or on my Mac? I only see dots when I look in system settings/passwords on Mac or in settings/passwords on iPhone, and I can't find these passwords in keychain on Mac. I used to be able to see the account passwords to confirm they are correct when I have an email issue. Running latest Sonoma on MacBook Pro and latest OS on iPhone 15 pro.
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Playatech wrote:
Meaning it is true that users have no way to see their own Internet Account passwords once input?
No, I told you completely the opposite. The passwords are stored in a keychain. You can view them in Keychain Access or Passwords. I just stated that you can't view them in Internet Accounts. I spend almost zero time in Internet Accounts, so someone may have some secret way to reveal them, but that is not the intention as there is no obvious way to show them. You are just supposed to use the keychain tools. In Sonoma, a popup link to open Passwords appears when you click in the password field.
Do people work around this by creating secure notes in keychain so they can remember their email account passwords during the seemingly frequent occasions when Mail loses an account password and needs it input again?
No, they let them automatically be stored in the keychain. They don't have to remember them at all. If you are getting password problems in Mail, make sure there is only one password entry from that email account in your keychain.
Playatech wrote:
Meaning it is true that users have no way to see their own Internet Account passwords once input?
No, I told you completely the opposite. The passwords are stored in a keychain. You can view them in Keychain Access or Passwords. I just stated that you can't view them in Internet Accounts. I spend almost zero time in Internet Accounts, so someone may have some secret way to reveal them, but that is not the intention as there is no obvious way to show them. You are just supposed to use the keychain tools. In Sonoma, a popup link to open Passwords appears when you click in the password field.
Do people work around this by creating secure notes in keychain so they can remember their email account passwords during the seemingly frequent occasions when Mail loses an account password and needs it input again?
No, they let them automatically be stored in the keychain. They don't have to remember them at all. If you are getting password problems in Mail, make sure there is only one password entry from that email account in your keychain.
In Passwords, just hover the cursor over the password.
In Keychain Access you have to click on Show Password, then authenticate.
Meaning it is true that users have no way to see their own Internet Account passwords once input?
Do people work around this by creating secure notes in keychain so they can remember their email account passwords during the seemingly frequent occasions when Mail loses an account password and needs it input again?
Thank you!
Ok, clearly understood now, thank you. There are a ton of email access passwords stored in my Mac keychain and I have not found one yet that looks correct so I think I need to clean them all out and re-input just one. Hopefully that will make things work better on Mac. Leaves me wondering if there is a setting for keychain telling it to throw away old passwords whenever one is updated.
In iPhone passwords which should be the same keychain, I think I only see part of the keychain visible on Mac: I see only one password for each web site login rather than a ton of noise, but I also do not see any login entries at all for any of my email accounts. Is Settings/Mail/Accounts the only place email passwords are stored on iPhone? The /Accounts password field does not display password when hovering like Settings/Passwords. My original goal was to grab a working password from my phone and re-input it on Mac where the same account stopped working:)
Thank you so much for your help!!!
Playatech wrote:
Ok, clearly understood now, thank you. There are a ton of email access passwords stored in my Mac keychain and I have not found one yet that looks correct so I think I need to clean them all out and re-input just one. Hopefully that will make things work better on Mac. Leaves me wondering if there is a setting for keychain telling it to throw away old passwords whenever one is updated.
You may be seeing passwords for services that use your email address as a username. You should not delete those.
This is apparently old info. I can't see any of my passwords on keychain or passwords in Sonoma or on my iPhone with 17.3. I just got a new computer and migrated. It asked for my email passwords and there was no way to find them on my old computer or on my phone it just showed dots. No hovering over the dots on the phone. This is seriously making me angry.
It sounds like the migration didn't go well for you.
I'm not sure if you should try it again. That would require you remove the user you migrated.
Not having ever tried such a thing, you might want to create a new admin-capable user, first.
Thank you and sorry to be ambiguous; what I can't see is actually the passwords inside Settings/Internet Accounts on Mac, or Mail/Accounts on phone.
Yes, that's true.
Oh, I know, thanks, there are a ton of those. Had to search on the server name to find the email accounts in the haystack...
I have lost my gmail password
dgibson4700 wrote:
I have lost my gmail password
Then request a password reset from Google.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/41078?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
How can I view my main stored email account passwords on my Mac?
