Microsoft Launches Apple Keychain-Like Autofill Password Manager for iPhone, Macs and More: How to Use
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Microsoft is bringing its own password management system for Android and iPhone models as a part of the latest Microsoft Authenticator app. The company is extending the same support for Windows and macOS-running PCs with a new Autofill extension for Google Chrome browser. The company explains that if a user who has saved the password for a platform under Microsoft Account on the Microsoft Edge browser, the password will sync to the Authenticator app or Chrome extension. Similarly, if a password is saved on Authenticator app or Autofill extension, users can sync it with the Edge browser. Notably, for Apple devices like Macs, iPhone, iPads, the company already provides the native iCloud Keychain system that acts as a password manager.
The update of iCloud for Windows that Apple released last week is no longer available. The update enabled syncing passwords, but required a Chrome extension that wasn’t available until days after the update.
You know how sometimes you used a Mac and all your passwords were stored there, but for some reasons you had to switch to a Windows PC and it annoyed you that you have to log in to all your accounts again, and considering how short our memory span is related to remembering passwords there is a high possibility you do not remember any. Well, there is some good news for you.
A news came through this past week that Apple has released a Chrome Extension for Windows which will allow you to use iCloud Key Chain Passwords to be used on PCs. That means if you use Google as an Apple Browser and an iCloud Keychain to store your passwords this can make shifting between using Mac and Windows PC very easy.
iCloud Passwords Extension Released on Chrome Web Store, Helps Access Saved Apple Passwords on Windows
iCloud Passwords allows you to use the Safari passwords you create on your Apple device, with Chrome on Windows. By Tasneem Akolawala | Updated: 1 February 2021 12:12 IST
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iCloud Passwords will also save passwords created on Chrome for Windows or Mac
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It is now available on Chrome Web store It allows for easy switching between Windows and Mac devices
Apple has released an official iCloud Passwords extension on the Chrome Web Store. The add-on will allow Windows and Mac users to utilise and sync passwords stored in the iCloud Keychain on their Chrome browsers. This will especially be useful for users who have been using iCloud Keychain as their dedicated password manager on Apple devices. It will also enable them to easily switch from Windows to Mac devices and vice versa, as well as between Chrome
The extension, called iCloud Passwords, is available now in the Chrome Web Store.
“iCloud Passwords is a Chrome extension for Windows users that allows you to use the same strong Safari passwords you create on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac when visiting websites in Chrome on your Windows PC. iCloud Passwords also saves any new passwords you create in Chrome to your iCloud Keychain so that it is also available on your Apple devices,” says the description of the web extension.
On its support page, Apple says that if users use two-factor authentication with their Apple ID and own a device running iOS 14 or later, they can save web passwords and “keep them up to date in Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and in Chrome on your PC.”