How to hide safari passwords in IOS7

There are password keeper apps that can be passcoded. Password1 is a popular one. You store your passwords in them instead of Safari, then copy/paste as required, as I recall.

But are you really giving your phone to people to make a call and wandering off, allowing them time to rummage through your phone? Unlock the phone, hand it to them, take it back when the call is done. And the less said about giving your password to children, the better.

Best of luck.

robertangelini wrote:

thank you but i was more hoping there was a feature in the phone that disabled showing the password.

Nope.

Do you have a passcode set for your iPhone that you must enter when unlocking it? I believe the passcode for the iPhone is used to require viewing saved passwords for MobileSafari.

Again, don't let people you don't trust to be respectful use your phone.

I'm with Robert. I think the new Safari password manager in iOS 7 is an incredibly huge security hole. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw all my lenghty and complex passwords in clear text! All you have to know is a ridiculously weak 4-number code! 8-/

By the way I wonder if iCloud Keychain is already active, as I mysteriously found passwords of websites that I know for sure I only visited from my Mac??!

D.F. wrote:

I'm with Robert. I think the new Safari password manager in iOS 7 is an incredibly huge security hole. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw all my lenghty and complex passwords in clear text! All you have to know is a ridiculously weak 4-number code! 8-/

You should not be limited to a 4-digit passcode. If you go to Settings > General > Passcode Lock*, you may change it to an arbitrary length passcode using any character on the provided keyboard. (You just have to type in that passcode at the lock screen every time as well.)

* It's called "Touch ID & Passocde" on iPhone 5s.

Yeah, this is a shame for Apple.

I am with Robert, and D.F.

I was also shocked when I first saw all the passwords listed in the Safari settings. It felt like me looking at my naked body.

I also had the same observation as D.F's -- that the Safari on my iPhone seems to have collected all passwords from my mac's Safari (I turned on sync across devices for Safari bookmarks, settings and everything over iCloud for convenience, and perhaps that's why.)

They should've at least had to put one step of security before showing the passwords -- just the way the Keychain Access app works in mac or even the mac version Safari's passwords tab does (first showing dots, then asking the admin password when clicking "Show Passwords").

I hope they realize this problem and fix it in the upcoming updates.

Robert, did u have any luck with this STUPID mistake Apple has created, I am now in same boat !

This is a major omission. The passcode for showing the stored Safari passwords should be completely different from the main device unlock passcode (whether Ipad/Iphone - doesn't matter).

As the rest of you - I do ocassionaly give access to others on the Iphone/Ipad - and DO NOT want them getting all my passwords.

Totally agree. I don't even have a passcode on my device, simply because I don't want to put a passcode everytime I unlock the phone, which happens hundreds of times a day.

It's not clear why there can't be different level of security. Same applies for Mac: Safari passwords are protected only by your Mac password, which has to be simple enough to type it quickly everytime you want to unlock your Mac.

I ended up disabling iCloud Keychain, and using 1Password instead.

THis became a problem for us today...with a twist. Our grandson has his own ipad mini which i set up on our family sharing. Had to do a family sharing in order for our multiple ipads and iphones that share wifi to keep info separate. So the kid wants to take his ipad to his every other weekend visitation at his moms. I let him. i have restrictions enabled so i wasnt too worried. Later after he came home i checked the history to make sure nothing was accessed that shouldnt be. I accidently found that all my Safari passwords were accessible to him, and anyone else he lent his ipad to! yes the regular passcode was needed to see the passwords, but he trusts his biological parents and would give it to them if they asked, and they would. I do not trust them. I know more about them then he does and we dont bad-mouth them in front of him. It took more security steps for me to post this paragraph, then it does to access all my internet passwords!

ANd i see this issue has been known for 2 years and no one has fixed it? Geez! I am deleting all the passwords from the keychain. If anyone at Apple is listening....This is unacceptible! Shame on Apple!