{"id":106500,"date":"2025-07-31T03:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106500\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T03:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:17:13","slug":"apples-passwords-app-gets-a-key-ios-26-fix-for-a-common-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106500\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s Passwords app gets a key iOS 26 fix for a common issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/passwords-app-ios-26-dark.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"Passwords app iOS 26\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s Passwords app <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/heres-what-the-new-passwords-app-in-ios-18-can-do\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched last year in iOS 18<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Passwords app now saves login version history in iOS 26<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Apple Passwords finally debuted last fall and I quickly switched to it as my go-to password manager.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, however, there is one issue I\u2019ve periodically run into: my passwords would sometimes get overwritten by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>How did this happen? I\u2019m not entirely sure. But it\u2019s come up on a number of occasions.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, whenever my password got overwritten, I would need to go through the whole \u201cForgot your password?\u201d process.<\/p>\n<p>But in iOS 26, that should be a completely solved issue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/passwords-app-history-ios-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1005932\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the Passwords app now saves full version history for all your logins in iOS 26.<\/p>\n<p>Open a login inside the app, and you\u2019ll see a new \u2018View History\u2019 button.<\/p>\n<p>It will only show up when there are multiple versions of a password saved. But with the history, you\u2019ll see:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>each different password version<\/li>\n<li>when each password was created<\/li>\n<li>and an option to clear the history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My issues with Apple\u2019s Passwords app have been pretty minimal since last year\u2019s launch. <\/p>\n<p>This iOS 26 change should ensure that Passwords works even more effectively for me in the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Do you expect to use Passwords\u2019 new version history in iOS 26? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Best iPhone accessories<\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/43RjEnY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1004396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iMazing_-WWDC25_9to5mac_750x150@2x.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"205\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s Passwords app launched last year in iOS 18 as a new pre-installed password solution across iPhone, iPad,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[611,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-106500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114945683809223943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}