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by: Jamie Cuevas

 

Mac users, iPhone users, and iPad users, should all be aware that updating to macOS Sonoma 14, iOS 17, or iPadOS 17, may silently enable iCloud Keychain on their devices. Essentially this means that by updating to the latest iOS, iPadOS, or MacOS, you may be unintentionally enabling the feature and thereby uploading your saved keychain and login information to Apple’s iCloud servers. If you like and use this feature, obviously that’s not an issue, but if you don’t use iCloud Keychain and don’t want to use it, having it enable itself after updating system software may be considered problematic, or a nuissance.

 

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I have used keychain (along with 1password) for years, and yes, my keychain was synced in iCloud. The encryption is rather strong, and having been an Apple employee and seen things from the inside,  I trust Apple to protect that well.  But I fully understand why some might not like this at all. 


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