How do I manage multiple passwords for the same account in Apple's Password Manager?

This may not even be a problem with the operating system

I keep getting more and more passwords for example my xfinity mail account and others My mail will stop connecting and ask for a signin and I'll go to passwords and find 3 separate passwords for x finity, none of them will work. other accounts like credit cards will build up more than one password as time goes by leading to much confusion and sign ins shutting down because of too many attempts at signing in with what turns out to be the wrong choice of the few passwords in the manager that have accumulated. This is probably a non apple problem but if anyone knows how to handle passwords better than I, maybe could shed some light for this dummy!


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Original Title: Password manager confusion

iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 13.7

Posted on Apr 28, 2026 9:52 AM

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Posted on Apr 28, 2026 1:21 PM

If you find that you have somehow ended up with multiple passwords for any website, account or app and some don't work, you should simply make a note of the one that does work and delete the others for that website.


I have a very small handful of old passwords that have been handed down from previous OS versions for site that I rarely visit. Most I simply delete. If I decide later to revisit a site I'll just set a fresh account and use an Apple "Hide My Email" proxy email, set a fresh password and let the Password app manage it from there.


Passwords User Guide - Apple Support

How to use Hide My Email with Sign in with Apple - Apple Support



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Aug 28, 2026 7:36 AM in response to rsbrux

rsbrux wrote:
This is an incomprehensible shortcoming of Apple's Passwords app. It should prompt to update an exisiting password whenever a new one is used, but it doesn't do this reliably. As a result I have at least one URL in passwords with half a dozen different entries and several with duplicate or conflicting entries.

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Sep 13, 2026 9:18 AM in response to Robrepp

Hi the password manager on my ipad drives me crazy. It will prompt me to change a password but it does not just change the password it saves it again so when I go to my passwords I can see 2 three and more saved passwords for one account. I just tried to log into an account that I have never had issues with and all of a sudden I can’t log in. I go to the password and I find four passwords for an account that has only ever had one password and I can’t guess which one but also cannot test that many without getting locked out of my account. It has also been prompting me to save passwords when I log in with a password I already have so I hit don’t save but I don’t think it listens. I am too old for this can anyone recommend a not too expensive but works all time password app.

Thanks.

Oct 14, 2026 5:55 AM in response to Matti Haveri

Re: “… I prefer to to keep it [the master] only local … “


Ditto … and for me … on a machine which is normally “off-net” and in files which are scrupulously backed-up “3-2-1”


The ability to run the same “vault” database file(s) on different PW Managers and OS platforms is IMO essential to guard against becoming stranded if any particular 3rd party developer “looses interest” in maintaining their particular product.




How do I manage multiple passwords for the same account in Apple's Password Manager?

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