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Q: Keychain not syncing safari passwords between phone and macbook

Hi all!

 

My safari passwords don't sync between my two devices. I have a macbook pro 15 mid 2015 that i work with and an iPhone 6s. I have a lot of website passwords stored in my macbook keychain, that don't reflect in my iPhone 6s safari list of passwords.

 

As far as i know, every synchronization is made by keychain, so i suppose this is a keychain issue.  I guess the safari sync is meant to work like the google chrome one...but it doesn't sync any of the passwords that i previously saved with my mac os safari. I don't want to switch to chrome, although its syncing works as expected.

 

Thanks

Posted on Oct 27, 2015 9:22 AM

by Vahn84,Solvedanswer
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A:

I've recreated the keychain on the macbook (keeping all stored data)

 

Now the "Local items" folder has been renamed as "iCloud". Let's see what will happen from now on. I'll report here if this solved my problem

Posted on Oct 28, 2015 4:36 AM

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  • by fromsouth,

    fromsouth fromsouth Oct 27, 2015 12:35 PM in response to Vahn84
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    Oct 27, 2015 12:35 PM in response to Vahn84

    That is what everyone is usually missing

    iOS 7.1.1 or later:

    1. Tap Settings > Safari > Passwords & AutoFill.
    2. Turn on Names and Passwords.
    3. Press the Home button and open Safari. If Safari is black or dark instead of white or gray, turn off Private Browsing. Safari doesn't save account names and passwords when Private Browsing is on.

  • by Vahn84,

    Vahn84 Vahn84 Oct 27, 2015 3:04 PM in response to fromsouth
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    Oct 27, 2015 3:04 PM in response to fromsouth

    Nope

     

    everything is ok in that side

  • by fromsouth,

    fromsouth fromsouth Oct 27, 2015 4:37 PM in response to Vahn84
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    Oct 27, 2015 4:37 PM in response to Vahn84

    does safari ask to remember passwords?

  • by Vahn84,

    Vahn84 Vahn84 Oct 27, 2015 4:52 PM in response to fromsouth
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    Oct 27, 2015 4:52 PM in response to fromsouth

    Yep

     

    and this work in both devices

     

    The only thing that doesn't work is the sync Between what i saved in my iPhone and what i saved in my MacBook

  • by fromsouth,

    fromsouth fromsouth Oct 28, 2015 3:54 AM in response to Vahn84
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    Oct 28, 2015 3:54 AM in response to Vahn84

    And you are using the same icloud account ?

    If yes, follow steps here, nobody knows which one is going to help so start from the top.

    Get help using iCloud Keychain - Apple Support

  • by Vahn84,

    Vahn84 Vahn84 Oct 28, 2015 3:54 AM in response to fromsouth
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    Oct 28, 2015 3:54 AM in response to fromsouth

    Yes of course

  • by Vahn84,

    Vahn84 Vahn84 Oct 28, 2015 4:07 AM in response to Vahn84
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    Oct 28, 2015 4:07 AM in response to Vahn84

    Nothing on that link can help me

     

    What i've found is that if i manually turn off and on my iPhone keychain, passwords get synced with what is stored in my macbook keychain.

     

    Another thing i've discovered in my macbook keychain is that a bunch of websites passwords get stored in the login folder and not in the local items. As far as i know local items is the folder that get synced between all devices.

     

    I manually copied/pasted those passwords in the local items folder (on my macbook).
    After turned off and on the iPhone keychain every passwords that was in local items on my macbook now is here in my iOS safari

     

    So, issues are more than only one. But the most important issue that i need to solve is to make the sync on my iPhone automatic. I don't want to manually refresh the keychain. This is not supposed to work this way

  • by Vahn84,Solvedanswer

    Vahn84 Vahn84 Oct 28, 2015 4:36 AM in response to Vahn84
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    Oct 28, 2015 4:36 AM in response to Vahn84

    I've recreated the keychain on the macbook (keeping all stored data)

     

    Now the "Local items" folder has been renamed as "iCloud". Let's see what will happen from now on. I'll report here if this solved my problem

  • by Vahn84,

    Vahn84 Vahn84 Oct 28, 2015 5:15 AM in response to Vahn84
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    Oct 28, 2015 5:15 AM in response to Vahn84

    Deleting both keychain and recreating them seems to have solved the issue

     

    I was struggling focusing my attention on the iPhone, but what did the trick was to delete and restart the keychain on the macbook. "local items" folder in keychain became "iCloud" and i think this was the main problem preventing the synchronization. I had to reset my iPhone keychain too. I gave permissions to use the iCloud keychain to my iPhone with my macbook (didn't use the verification code)

  • by gregory202,

    gregory202 gregory202 Oct 28, 2015 7:12 AM in response to Vahn84
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    Oct 28, 2015 7:12 AM in response to Vahn84

    Your weed is stronger then his, article contains instruction to disable and re enable keychain on the mac.

  • by Vahn84,

    Vahn84 Vahn84 Oct 28, 2015 7:27 AM in response to gregory202
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    Oct 28, 2015 7:27 AM in response to gregory202

    asuhhsuahsauhsuahasuaushsahuahsusahuashusahusahu

     

    i swear that i've done every single step multiple times yesterday and nothing worked...