Does iCloud Keychain work on apps as well?

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Does iCloud Keychain work on apps as well?

I update my Amazon with a new password generated by iCloud Keychain. It worked on my MacBook Pro and I checked it in Safari on my iPad Air and it worked. It didn't automatically work for the Amazon app on my iPad. How does this work with the Amazon app or any password protected app? Please don't tell I have to search my keychains to find the generated password and manually type it into every app (amazon and kindle reader apps use same password)? I am really interested in using this function that Mavericks and iOS 7 offers, but it almost useless if it doesn't work universally including. I'd prefer to use the apps rather than go online. Thanks for your help.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), OS X Mavericks (10.9), affects Mavericks and iOS 7

Posted on Nov 9, 2013 2:28 PM

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sberman

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Nov 9, 2013 2:32 PM in response to eddie38

It works for apps per this article. See "What is iCloud Keychain?" at the top:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5813

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Nov 9, 2013 2:54 PM in response to sberman

The support page says that developers can update their apps to work with iCloud Keychain (emphasis mine). I guess that means its still a work in progress and the ball is in the app developers course. I wonder if their is anyway of knowing which apps are updated to allow iCloud Keychain. Apparently Amazon is not quite their yet.

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sberman

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Nov 9, 2013 2:58 PM in response to eddie38

Are you using an Amazon app on your Mac? I am a frequent Amazon shopper and have an Amazon app on my iPhone and iPad but not my Mac. Anyway, can you get around this by using http://www.amazon.com from Safari?

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Mar 23, 2014 8:34 PM in response to eddie38

So the short answer is that it doesn't work with apps which means that it's useless. I regret that I started using it.

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