So getting a secure free password management system is pretty nice and pretty useful to people. And the biggest advantage of it is it’s free. Comparisons to 1Passwordįirst of all, it has end-to-end encryption, just like we would expect it to have for Apple. And so, thinking about the whole process, I think that it’s really useful. Then take all the updates I do on my Windows machine and send them back to iCloud so that they’re available on my Mac Mini and all my iOS devices which is exactly what I needed. Transfer my usernames and passwords over to a place I could use them on my Windows machine. There are not many other features, which is expected because there’s just not a lot of extra features inside the Keychain in general. Great! It Simply WorksĪnd looking at the iCloud Password app. ![]() Then I checked, and it updated it everywhere. It asked me if I wanted to update my password in the iCloud password application. I tested it further by going into a website and changing a password. Now I have those passwords in all the places. I looked at my Apple apps, and they were there as well. Sure enough, that new user login and password were there. When I did, I checked the iCloud application. It asked me if I wanted to save those entries. I added in the new login and the new password. I even joined a brand new service to see how it would save that password. Saving a New Login Would You Like to Save Password to iCloud Keychain? I also did the same kind of testing with Microsoft Edge, and it worked just fine and in exactly the same way. As soon as I clicked on it, it added the username and password to the login. In these cases, I only had one password for the website. Then the application asked me to select which saved password for this website I wanted to use. Then you get a new pin, and you have to enter it again. It will allow you to look up passwords from the extension until it times out. From there, you can enter it into the extension and start to use that password for the website you’re trying to log into. The pin shows up in the lower right-hand corner of the browser. Initially, when you first use iCloud Password for Windows, it asks you to enter a pin for each session. It turned blue when a password was available for that particular website or grayed if there is no password for the website. From there, I noticed that I could click on a cloud icon. I opened Chrome and browsed to a few websites that I know are in my iCloud passwords list. Then I noticed inside my iCloud for Windows application, it now had a box checked that indicated that passwords were part of the integration with iCloud now came from the extension part, Using it with Browser Extensions Enter Pin to Log In Initially, I had to sign into the applications with my Apple ID, which is fine. I had Chrome, the Chrome extension, and the iCloud passwords or Windows installed. Now that I installed the iCloud password for the Windows application, I had all the pieces together. They either didn’t have the iCloud application installed or were trying to use an unsupported browser. I noticed from the reviews that there were many harsh critics of the extension, saying that it wasn’t working and that they didn’t understand how it works.įor the most part, it seemed to me that people didn’t know how it could work. You can get the extension from the Windows Store. Once that’s installed, then you can use Microsoft Edge browser instead of Chrome using that same Chrome extension. The Chrome extension requires, obviously, to have Chrome installed on your machine. Second, you must use the Chrome extension. That’s a requirement for the whole process. ![]() First, you must have iCloud for Windows application on your Windows machine. ![]() First of all, you must have a few things. To talk about the installations, it’s pretty straightforward. Installation Microsoft Edge Extension for iCloud Passwords That way, you can have one system in place that’ll help you manage your passwords. It gives you this chance to use the passwords that you have from your Apple devices and add more that are on your Windows machine. They have an application for iCloud passwords called iCloud Passwords for Windows. What about the times when I’m in Windows? How can I actually get those passwords there? Now Apple has a solution for people like me. The problem is, is that it only works for half my life. It’s all there in the Apple iCloud Keychain. For example, I have this very nice password list of all the things I use on my phone has all the passwords I like to use for various apps and websites I go to. There are always interesting conundrums involved when saving some of your data into Apple applications and other pieces of your data that are not in Apple.
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