Password change reliability is terrible

[davidg4781]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I went to Hulu, it said I needed to change my password. I let macOS choose, hit log in, and it signed me in.

Then I went to System Settings, Passwords, and the password isn't updated.

Now I have to go through the whole process to change a forgotten password. Does this happen to everyone else? What a hassle.

 

[fwmireault]

Oh yeah, it happened to me multiple times, to the point where now I manually change my passwords in keychain, I don't trust the automatic change anymore. It's unfortunate that this feature is so unreliable, Apple should just disable it if it can't get it to work the right way

 

[davidg4781]

Oh yeah, it happened to me multiple times, to the point where now I manually change my passwords in keychain, I don't trust the automatic change anymore. It's unfortunate that this feature is so unreliable, Apple should just disable it if it can't get it to work the right way

I don't know if it's Apple's or Hulu's side. But Hulu doesn't seem to give me an option about forgetting my password. Maybe I need to dig more. Right now I'm filling out a feedback for Apple.

 

[fwmireault]

I don't know if it's Apple's or Hulu's side. But Hulu doesn't seem to give me an option about forgetting my password. Maybe I need to dig more. Right now I'm filling out a feedback for Apple.

To be clear, I don't use Hulu, I had this issue for a long time on other websites. I can't remember which ones, but it happened quite often

 

[fisherking]

i've never had that fail on me (yet), when i let apple choose a password (i don't always do that, tho). and hulu has an option about 'forgetting password'; i no longer have hulu, but am sure it's there.

EDIT: it's right there, in the signin page:

hulu reset password

 

[davidg4781]

i've never had that fail on me (yet), when i let apple choose a password (i don't always do that, tho). and hulu has an option about 'forgetting password'; i no longer have hulu, but am sure it's there.

EDIT: it's right there, in the signin page:

hulu reset password

So when I went to sign out of Hulu, it finally prompted me to save my password. I did yes, but it wasn't the correct one. I found the forgot password sign in page.

Still a hassle for something that should work better than that. Hopefully others have submitted this bug request.

 

[Apple_Robert]

When dealing with passwords, it is always best to manually insert your own password and then save it to a password manager for safe keeping. If you want to save the password after the fact in Keychain, that will be better than what you went through. I had that same kind of thing happen to me 3 times in the past and stopped letting keychain have that kind of control. For the most part, I barely use Keychain.

 

[russell_314]

When dealing with passwords, it is always best to manually insert your own password and then save it to a password manager for safe keeping. If you want to save the password after the fact in Keychain, that will be better than what you went through. I had that same kind of thing happen to me 3 times in the past and stopped letting keychain have that kind of control. For the most part, I barely use Keychain.

I've had the same issue with Keychain not remembering a new password that it generated. Depending on the website sometimes you can click the little show password icon and copied to clipboard. If I can do that I paste it into a text file temporarily until I verify the updated password is saved.

The reason why I like using Keychain is because of the password format with the dashes. Randomly generated is always more secure than something you type even if you think you're randomly hitting keys. I keep all my passwords in 1Password but if I use it to generate a password it's not in the same format. Yes I know that doesn't really matter but it's me being OCD that everything has to be in the same format 🤣