How can I prevent Safari/iCloud Keychain from saving data in our password field?

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How can I prevent Safari/iCloud Keychain from saving data in our password field?

We have a web-based management system where administrators can set and update passwords for individual users. While I love iCloud keychain personally, the problem we are finding is that if the user, once prompted by Safari to Save the password in iCloud Keychain for Autofill, actually clicks 'Save Password', then our page wants to autofill that same password for any selected user or newly added user (and since we don't allow duplicates, constant errors result).

So the basic question: is there a way in HTML or Javascript to set form fields - or an entire form or div - to be ignored by iCloud Keychain, even if they are username or password fields.

We know we could just tell all our Safari users to disable in preferences with a pop-up banner, but that would be unfortunate (and IE-like)

(If this is the wrong place to find this type of info, any clue appreciated. Naturally we've searched a bunch already)

Safari 7.0.5-OTHER, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Jul 22, 2014 11:23 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 22, 2014 11:24 AM in response to Adam Barisoff1

Can I remove my iCloud Keychain from Apple's servers?

Yes. Follow these steps, starting on any one of your iOS devices or Macs that is using iCloud Keychain:

Devices using iOS 7.0.3 or later:

Go to Settings > iCloud > Account > Keychain and turn off “Approve with Security Code”.

Go to each of your other devices that is using iCloud Keychain and turn iCloud Keychain off.

Macs using OS X Mavericks v10.9 or later:

Choose Apple () menu > System Preferences. Click iCloud, then click Account details.

Deselect “Allow approving using security code”.

Go to each of your other devices that is using iCloud Keychain and turn iCloud Keychain off.

After you complete these steps, your keychain data will remain locally on your devices, but changes to your keychain information will not push to your other devices or the cloud unless you turn iCloud Keychain back on. If you want keychain data to push to all of your devices, but not to the cloud, turn on iCloud Keychain on each device as described earlier in this document, but skip the step to create an iCloud Security Code.

iCloud: Frequently asked questions about iCloud Keychain

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

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Answer 2

Llessur999

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Jul 22, 2014 12:49 PM in response to Adam Barisoff1

See the last post in this thread. The poster reports that adding a second "dummy" password field will prevent Safari from auto-filling.

Disable Safari 7.0.2 keychain password save

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Answer 3

Jul 23, 2014 8:18 AM in response to Llessur999

Thank you. This workaround seems to do the trick.

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