Apple's improved password application in iOS 18, iPados 18 and MacOS 15 can be the motivation for you to consolidate the passwords you manage elsewhere. If you use Chrome or have a Google account, it is very likely that you have password management configured alongside your Google account. Fortunately, it is easy to migrate them into the Apple system.
A Mac is required, because passwords for iOS and iPados do not offer an import option. Here's how to proceed:
- Open Chrome
- Go to https://passwords.google.com.
- Click on the equipment icon at the top right of the label password manager.
- Click on Export button to the right of Export passwords.
- Confirm your choice by clicking Export. This will create a file downloaded with the raw text of all your passwords. (Passkeys cannot be exported, but if you use Apple devices, they are already managed by the operating system and synchronized with iCloud.)
- When you are invited to confirm your identity, do it. I was invited both for a passkey and the password of my account.
- The file is now downloaded in your default download folder in Chrome. Find it, then launch the passwords.
- In passwords, choose File> Import passwords from the file.
- Click Choose the file.
- Select the password file via the open dialog box and click Import.
- Authorize using a fingerprint or another method.
Import ends with a summary dialog box. Make sure you don't miss it – it's not modal and can hide behind the main password window, as is the case for me. The passwords tell you if there are duplicates on importation, which it jumps. You can use it as a guide to delete or update obsolete inputs in passwords. (Apple does not create a “imported” group or provides no way to determine when password entries have been added.)
If you choose to update passwords by deleting double inputs, you can simply import the same text file again: passwords will now jump all the inputs it has successfully imported and import those which Replace the elements you have just deleted.
Make sure and delete the downloaded file when you have finished and empty the trash can. You don't want to keep passwords in raw text on your computer.
The extension of Apple's iCloud passwords for Google Chrome allows you to fill the passwords from your iCloud warehouse so that you do not lose access to these entries when using Chrome in the future. An option in iCloud passwords allows you to deactivate the automatic password by Chrome so as not to end up with contradictory inputs.
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