Apple’s Passwords app has iOS 26 fix for my most common issue

3 weeks ago 2

Apple’s Passwords app launched last year in iOS 18 as a new pre-installed password solution across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more. iOS 26 changes for Passwords are pretty minimal, except there is one key fix that addresses my most common issue after a year of use.

For years, Apple has offered password management tools on the iPhone and its other devices. But until iOS 18, those tools were always hidden away inside the Settings app.

Fortunately, Apple Passwords finally debuted last fall and I quickly switched to it as my go-to password manager.

Over the past year, however, there is one issue I’ve periodically run into: my passwords would sometimes get overwritten by mistake.

How did this happen? I’m not entirely sure. But it’s come up on a number of occasions.

At times I believe a new password was generated, then I ran into issues finalizing the change on the website. Thus, Passwords had the new login, but the site still needed my old one.

In any case, whenever my password got overwritten, I would need to go through the whole “Forgot your password?” process.

But in iOS 26, that should be a completely solved issue.