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Sorry or jumping in here, but you read that as kevs referring to the 1Password app while I read it as referring to my scheme of very simply using the same password for every website I visit at which I'm not at risk of losing money, i.e., stores that don't link to either my credit card or bank, and info only websites.

But I won't go any further than that unless someone specifically asks me to.

does this mean i can restore my macbook M1 from a time machne backup (like pre APFS volumes) vs. having to use migration assistant using the method on the OWC website?

Thanks Joe, great answer/ So if they have dataleaks, you still change your password. I guess you have to with dataleaks, But then you'd never again have
weak passwords.

Do find strongbox as good as 1 password? Or just a less elegant interface? It seems the main money gain is if you buy the lifetime option, but who knows if that guy will be around in 5 years? At lease you know that 1 pass will be with some big company?

So you think one could get used to this, and be comfortable after years of excel , creating one own.. I ask as I remember I was so comfortable with the old white keyboards and you said the magic flats are odd at the beginning, but you get used to them, and you were right, they turned out better (way easier to clean)

The password app is based on the idea that you are the person on you iphone, or laptop or desktop or ipad, because you got in there with you fingerprint? It's all based on that, and then you quickly get onto all your websites quickly with a fabulous password, without even having to type anything?

Only thing: my two magic keyboards would then have to be replaced (it's not out of the question) with new one with fingerprint option--correct?. And ipad pro too would have to be replaced? And Macbook Air from just 2 years ago?

And then what about times if that glitches out? I'd say 1/2 time I used the manual 6 digit pass to get into the iphone -- which bring up the question... would you not worry that someone, if they got on your iphone or other device could get into it with just 6 numbers and then log into a website.

Forgive me if I don't get the flowchart of this... this is my educated guess.

I can confirm that that did the trick. My iPhone successfully followed my wife's until she returned home.

Great idea. A recent news item reported that thieves were planting tracking devices on cars in wealthy neighbourhoods, so that they would have a good idea of when people were home or away.

Apple's solution is to send you a warning if a strange (not registered to you) Airtag or Device is following you around. Along with instructions on What to do if you get an alert that...accessory, or set of AirPods is with you.

Which is exactly why password managers/generators were created. Secure passwords and phrases are difficult to create, virtually impossible to remember, and often difficult to type, and are picked up from data leaks without our knowledge. Password managers offer a way of dealing with many, if not all, of these issues. The Keychain password that comes built into macOS, IOS, iPadOS handles most of those tasks, but the reason for the 25+ third-party password managers listed in the macOS app store is Keychain lacks the flexibility and options available in many third-party apps. For example, I have frequently encountered web sites that because their password rules prohibit certain characters and require specific kinds of characters, Keychain was unable to create an acceptable password. Whereas the password manager I use offers a variety of options generate passwords or pass phrases, store them securely, paste them when needed, and monitor my passwords to see if they have shown up on the black web.

1. All browsers and all password managers use the same Apple APIs (Application Program Interface) so what one sees, they all see. Chrome and many browsers have their own built-in password manager that may, in turn, access Keychain or a third-party password manager. The interlinkages can become baroque and confusing. An electronic version of Abbot and Costello's who's on first routine.
2. While there are browsers based on a sanitized version of the Chrome engine such as Arc, Brave, and DuckDuckGo that are secure and offer good protection against tracking. But, Apple removed Chrome itself from the App Store for hidden privacy violations and misleading presentation of the facts.
3. Password leaks are seldom due to any vulnerability in the user's browsers, they are commonly the result of a data leak on some merchant or agency server. Your only protection against that is, never using or re-using the same password on different sites and quickly changing any password if it has been revealed in a data breach.

1Password is a very well-known and full-featured password manager with a very slick and professional user interface. I used it for years until their charge for synchronizing the data on all of my various devices became more than I was willing to pay. Now I use Strongbox Pro and sync it across my devices using iCloud. 1Password is a corporate product and Strongbox Pro an individual developer's effort based on Open-Source roots. Each is a great example of the strengths and weaknesses of their respective genres.

It shouldn't be possible under any circumstances, not even Air Tags.

The possibilities are just plain limitlessly bad.

I thought it was apparent that approval would be required for just the reason you state. Apple would never let that happen, except where its Air Tag products were concerned.

I feel somewhat foolish in not checking a third external hd which could have a copy of my photos. Because it was the oldest one, I thought it wouldn't be of much use but of course, that would the most likely one to have a copy. How they disappeared in the first place, I have no idea. But I do appreciate your input as usual.

jaybass

Today on the iphone, it came up recommendations on passwords. I have made all my own over time and put on an excel sheet. It says some at top have data leaks, and then others easily guessed.

Yet I use mainly chrome. That does not matter? Apple somehow see the Chrome ones too and see what on imac as well as iphone both OS? So when save in chrome it save not to chrome but to Apple?

And someone recommended one password, but I've never gotten my head around at all how that works thanks.