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What happened to my passwords on my iPhone after updating to iOS 18. There’s no more password icon on my phone it’s like all my passwords have been wiped clean off my phone
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iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 18
In Settings, scroll to the bottom of the list. Look for a new icon for Apps. Click it.
All apps, including your passwords, are now alphabetically stored there. I do not like it at all, I am a creature of habit and muscle memory and this threw me off too.
how about don't fix it? it was working ok before the 'update' and now it's a mess.
100% agree. i prefer the passwords back in the settings. nobody asked us users anything, though. just 'surprise' we decided to 'fix' things. no thanks, apple.
Metricwoman43 wrote:
It saved them, but you gotta open an app in order to get them now
OK. Previous way:
Open Settings
Look for Passwords
Tap Password
Look for Password
New Way:
Open Password App
Look for password
I'm honestly not seeing how this is not easier than it was. I certainly find it far easier.
The app was included with the iOS 18 update. Even the release notes said it was included. It managed to show up on both of our iPhones on iOS 18. It appeared on every persons iPhone in my office who updated to iOS 18.
JustJudithMeredith wrote:
I accessed the list that had passwords listed - like before the update - but I don't have a clue how I found it! I thought I had it - but when I backed out of it, then tried to go back to the list, I couldn't find it :>(
Its an App, like Facebook or Messages or Mail or Phone is an App. And the App has three different colored keys on it and is says Passwords.
This new way of getting to passwords is really awkward and clunky!! I don’t like it at all. I’m used to going straight to it to check a password when ordering something! Give me back the old way please.
Don’t mind changes, but what I do mind is that I must hunt to find a feature I use every day. Plus, I have to click more icons to get to Passwords — instead of one.
This change makes no sense.
If this is Apple’s effort to deter bad actors from finding Passwords, any criminally-minded person will know how to get to my passwords much better than I do.
This ‘update’ only hamstrings users.
Thought what Apple strives for in their iPhones is ease of use.
Hope Apple rethinks this very poor ‘update’ and restores the Password icon on the first screen in Settings.
After the update, the annoying password app appeared and I no longer have my passwords in settings. Apple please allow your customers to make suggestions and not your employees…This is nonsensical, inconvenient and makes me consider if we’re valued as customers!🤔
Found the All-New Passwords app
No doubt there was a reason, as there is for every human action, to move it to it's current location
But what the **** were you nerds thinking??????????
How many websites are there are there on this planet that ask for two step verification?
A Degenerative move considering the number of apps moving to a time-limited 2nd-step code-reply
And why have you added so many steps to access the passwords app?
"I know...people will be so enamoured with our iOS that they won't mind at all"
iPhone still remains a great product
But the iOS is sometimes so frustratingly impractical that I'm considering a Galaxy...yes, really!!!
What are the stats on customer loss after each upgrade?
What about whenever extra steps are added to an already existing multi-step process?
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!!
edcisler wrote:
THANK YOU !!! Never would have known to look at apps.
You're welcome. Do yourself a favor and when you update your iPhone, new features are always listed below the update button. It was listed on the iOS 18 update when it was released in September.
iPhone 14 upgrade to iPhone 18 has obliterated any faith I ever had in Apple. Not only can I not find SETTINGS where I used to find my PASSWORDS, but the Community is suggesting I GO TO SETTINGS to fix this — but my SETTINGS access is no longer there.
Why can’t Apple have APPLE people help instead of having their customers do their patching up for them? I have HAD it with Apple!
Apple has never made my life easier with upgrades.
Apple this and Apple that. I always am left with a struggle or must turn to the Community (still little success) or I must get help (very good help) at the Best Buy Geek Squad. I am P-Off.
Would SOMEBODY at Apple please respond to this problem??
Doufly2 wrote:
Apple has never made my life easier with upgrades.
Apple this and Apple that. I always am left with a struggle or must turn to the Community (still little success) or I must get help (very good help) at the Best Buy Geek Squad. I am P-Off.
Would SOMEBODY at Apple please respond to this problem??
No one from Apple is going to respond to you here. Since you know this is a community (user to user only) forum and you have needed to turn to it for help, maybe be a bit nicer as we are just users like you, volunteering our time trying to help users. See my response to you just above this post. Try what I suggested.
I have the passwords app and understand that's where they are stored now. But, only about 9 of my dozens and dozens of passwords are in the app. Where are the others I had when we accessed them through settings?
Password icon is missing after iOS 18 update on my iPhone
