Password icon is missing after iOS 18 update on my iPhone

Try this: Settings -> Passwords -> scroll to bottom, View Autofill Settings -> See if Password app slider is on.

iOS v18.1, iPhone 13 Pro.

Carolbadger wrote:

Me too. Not a clue how to navigate round this community as not been on before but my phone wont even autofill on sites that I regularly use. I’ve checked my husbands phone and all his are still there

HELP!!

Do you have iCloud Keychain enabled?

If you were using that previously, make sure it's been (re)enabled: Set up iCloud Keychain - Apple Support

Try this. From the middle of your screen swipe down to bring up search. Type Passwords and see if it finds your new app.

Yes it is automatically put on your iPhone. Look for a new icon called passwords with keys on the icon

its all sorted out inside for you.

@Michael817 the exact same thing just happened to me!!! these people answering have no clue. So I switched my iphone off turned it back on logged into Apple ID and they all popped back up again in the new stupid password app Icon !!! fixed!! I thought i was going to have to re do them all again. It had also signed me out of them!! Wasn't happy this is a fix ! For some reason it doesn't update them until you switch your phone off and back on and sign in. Make sure you click save passkeys to phone before you sign back out of your apple Iphone . I dont leave mine signed in. Don't want to be tracked !

katya107 wrote:

I get your point, but I didn’t even know this app existed. I was just used to access passwords through Settings. The situation was urgent, and instead of quickly getting my password, I had to spend deal of time figuring out where it had gone from Settings.

This is why when you update your iPhone, it's a good idea to read the release notes, which are printed below the update button. This change came with iOS 18 when it was released last September. It was clearly noted that passwords were now in their own application. The notes are usually very simple to read and take only a moment. I'm not being critical, but had you read them, you wouldn't have had to spend any time figuring out where your passwords were. Please do yourself a favor and when new updates come out READ the notes on the page so you are better informed about the changes an update might bring. Plus for months before iOS 18 was released, on this very forum, was a link about the changes coming in iOS 18. I get that we all get busy in our lives, but when a major iOS version is released every year, some things are always new. You could have been more aware of them.

Some where in this chat I found the fix, but I’ll put it in again go to settings. Click on your name. Click on iCloud. Click on passwords and I had to toggle the thing off and then on again and it re-populated all of my passwords into the new password app.

Zachyy wrote:

giraffe-1999 wrote:

I can no longer access my saved passwords. In settings Passwords has disappeared.

Right on, your Passwords are no longer in Settings. With iOS 18, there is the new passwords app which stores all your saved passwords. Also you had a whole thread of answers to choose from.

You'll learn. People aren't capable of taking their own time to read a thread they just posted to. It takes too much time to go past the first post.

ZGKEE wrote:

I agree. Just updated, against my will and can’t find the password icon under settings.

That’s because it was moved to a separate app on your home screen. Which you would know if you read the release notes when iOS 18 was was made available. This was done so you could make the password app of your choice the default, if you didn’t want to use Apple’s.

blasg1 wrote:

We should have been notified first to prepare

There is nothing to prepare. Your passwords were not changed; just the interface to manage them was moved to a separate app. And you were notified of the change if you read the release notes, accessed through a link on the update screen before you update

It's called Passwords

This worked for me:

Ask Siri: “Find my Passwords”

They pop up, but I have no idea where they come from!

Whatzpoppin wrote:

I like some things about iOS 18 but I’m beyond livid since I can’t say the word ****’d wtf

I can’t see my stored passwords any longer. I tried everything. YouTube gone,Netflix, everything gone! Apple do better why fix what ain’t broken

Are you saying when you open the Passwords app, which is now its own dedicated app and was automatically downloaded to your iPhone when you updated to iOS 18, you can't see your passwords? Or have you just not opened the Passwords app?

Alanskio wrote:

Me too. Is there a separate download I can get? Can’t find Passkey in Apps

Passwords app requires iOS 18.

Use the search function.

If you don’t see it — and Focus, Parental Controls, and Screen Time are not enabled — you can re-download from the app store. If any of those are enabled, disable them, and check for the app again.

Lgsawyer wrote:

Where can I access my passwords. They are missing after update?

For the introduction of the Passwords app in iOS 18, that’s been answered a few times in this thread.

For what has changed in iOS 18 including Passwords app, here is: What’s new in iOS 18 - Apple Support