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Apple's Passwords app is getting a handy new feature in iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe that should eliminate a particularly frustrating password management scenario.

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The Passwords app now saves complete version history for stored logins that have been changed, which could be a lifesaver if you find yourself in a situation where a password gets accidentally overwritten.

Users will find a new "View History" button when opening any login that has multiple saved versions. The history display shows each different password iteration, creation timestamps, and an option to clear the stored versions.

Apple launched the standalone Passwords app in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia after years of burying password management tools within the Settings app, and the version history addition is a nice refinement in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and MacOS Tahoe.

The update should prove particularly valuable for users managing frequently-changing credentials or situations where you update a password on a website and something causes the new credentials to not register properly.

Article Link: Apple's Passwords App Gains Version History Feature
 
Version history in 1Password has saved my bacon a couple of times, where I have changed the password and 1Password has saved the new password, then the site gives out an error message, that it couldn't save the new password and I have to sign back in with the old one again!

Glad to see that Apple is adding to Apple Passwords for those that use the Apple system.

I work in a mixed environment (Windows, Linux and Apple) and we use team safes for departments and projects, for example, plus a home family account (my private user and private passwords) and a work account for work related passwords and for the team safes, otherwise I might have looked at Apple Passwords instead of 1Password for home, but trying to get the home safe to open on the work machine would have been a non-starter, at least currently.
 
It's frustrating that we have to wait for yearly major OS updates just to get minor app improvements, all because of the poor decision to deeply intertwine system apps with the OS instead of allowing regular updates through the app store throughout the year.
 
How good is the Apple Passwords? Quite tired of 1Password UX and issues and thinking of changing to this.
as long as you're happy:
1. to divide your 1password data between Apple Passwords (for passwords) and a secure note in Notes (for everything else), and
2. to not easily access them on non-apple devices

then yes, Apple Passwords is a good alternative

For me, the above 2 are a deal breaker.
 
That’s great! Now, I’m waiting for two more features: custom categories and a Password on Apple Watch. However, I don’t think custom categories will ever come, and I’m guessing the Apple Watch Password will take the same amount of time as it took for Notes to arrive.
 
as long as you're happy:
1. to divide your 1password data between Apple Passwords (for passwords) and a secure note in Notes (for everything else), and
2. to not easily access them on non-apple devices

then yes, Apple Passwords is a good alternative

For me, the above 2 are a deal breaker.
The second point is most likely explicitly decided by Apple to motivate people to stay within its fully integrated ecosystem, from phones to notebooks and tablets, eventually culminating in an Apple Watch (though not yet Password App for it… wait for iOS 27+).
 
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Great that it been added. I just need Apple to add allow password app have different password to login than from iPhone passcode/password. When that is added then I can use it with main password manager.
 
Apple Password App is **** anyway. Just get Proton, only costs 199$ One time and you're good to go.

@fmxl Try Proton. It's a Swiss non profit organization based on privacy (real privacy, not the pseudo privacy apple claims by selling your data in their iAd). They have free as well as full plans available
 
Apple Password App is **** anyway. Just get Proton, only costs 199$ One time and you're good to go.

@fmxl Try Proton. It's a Swiss non profit organization based on privacy (real privacy, not the pseudo privacy apple claims by selling your data in their iAd). They have free as well as full plans available

Are you really suggesting Apple sells people’s passwords to third-parties behind our backs?

Are we nuts?
 
as long as you're happy:
1. to divide your 1password data between Apple Passwords (for passwords) and a secure note in Notes (for everything else), and
2. to not easily access them on non-apple devices

then yes, Apple Passwords is a good alternative

For me, the above 2 are a deal breaker.
I’ve been putting all my notes in the notes section of Passwords password cards.

If there is a note for a site I don’t log into, I create a password card for that site with the username of Noli (no log in).

My only complaint about Apples Passwords’ notes section is it has a character limitation which for a few cards, with lots of related info, causes me to abbreviate more than I’d like to.

Apple Password App is **** anyway. Just get Proton, only costs 199$ One time and you're good to go.

@fmxl Try Proton. It's a Swiss non profit organization based on privacy (real privacy, not the pseudo privacy apple claims by selling your data in their iAd). They have free as well as full plans available

With greetings from the Swiss Alps…

I trust Apple infinitely more than I trust Proton.

Yeah. I've gotten in the habit of copying the old password to the notes section before updating it so I have a fall back if the new one fails which seems to happen a lot to me.
I do this too !!! Haha. Not all the time but enough to be a repeat offender. LoL.

I hope Passwords stops duplicating cards with that little “(1)” after the user name. It’s unsettling and wasted time verifying that the non (1) is ok before the (1) can be deleted.

Finally. I’ve been burned dozens of times when changing a password and it doesn’t save for a variety of reasons.
I’ve seen that often the update dialog doesn’t open until you leave the site.

It would be more reassuring if this dialogue appeared consistently and at the earliest opportunity (like it does most of the time).
 
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