After years of hiding the passwords saved on our iPhone, Apple removed, in previous versions of iOS, the management of passwords and the autofill of the menu "Safari". With iOS 11, it is in a separate Settings menu that allows it to be used as a password manager - possibly one of the most comfortable on iOS.
And in iOS 12, Apple has further improved the management of passwords saved on the iPhone and synced via iCloud with iCloud Keychain.
The first thing we see in the new menu of "Passwords and accounts" of Settings of our iPhone or iPad is that Apple now shows us the number of passwords we have stored. This is the number of passwords in iCloud, if we have it activated.
In both iOS 11 and iOS 12, You can activate the iCloud Keychain by clicking on your name in Settings and then on "iCloud". There you will find the "Keychain" menu, where you can activate it.
The next novelty is that Apple allows us to manage from there whether or not we want passwords to autocomplete. This option is not exclusive to Safari, but to any app that asks us for passwords.
Once inside our passwords (we need to unlock with Touch ID, Face ID or password), we see that Apple has revamped the look. With just the details of dividing the passwords alphabetically and adding the icon of the web page to which it belongs, get a much more orderly and easy to understand and visualize appearance.
As you see in the screenshots, Apple shows us a danger icon in some of the passwords that we have stored. It is a warning, as we are told when entering the password in question that "This password is also used in ...". With this, Apple reminds us that reusing passwords on several different websites is not secure.
In addition, will offer us a link to the website to "change the password on the website". It does not take you directly to the web where the password is changed, it is simply a link to the web, but the intention is to encourage us to change repeated passwords.
Small improvements that make iCloud Keychain an increasingly powerful and useful password manager.
