First up is a very welcomed password manager. Apple already has a password manager called Keychain that seamlessly syncs all your passwords between devices. Its main drawbacks.
Forward-looking: Apple revealed many new operating system features during its Worldwide Developers Conference. While the event started with a full head of AI steam, it wasn’t all about artificial intelligence. Apple has made some neat tweaks to all of its operating systems, including a native multiplatform password manager.
First up is a very welcomed password manager. Apple already has a password manager called Keychain that seamlessly syncs all your passwords between devices. Its main drawbacks are that it is barebones and buried as a submenu in the Setting app. It works well for auto-entering your credentials, but it’s a clunky process of navigating through Settings and searching the database if you need to find a password.
The new « Passwords » app aligns with Apple’s long-running, minimalistic, and uncreative naming scheme–Notes, Maps, Calendar, etc. It has an excellent, fresh interface with many features that help organize and make credentials easier to find. Best of all, it’s an app instead of a setting, so it’s right on the iPhone’s home screen for quick one-touch access.
Passwords comes baked into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and visionOS 2 when they launch this fall. Cupertino also made a Windows version that should arrive at or around the same time.
With Sequoia’s release, Macs receive a native window-tiling feature. It allows users to arrange windows quickly and efficiently, taking advantage of the Mac’s entire screen real estate. As such, it is only available on macOS Sequoia. That said, considering Apple has made moves toward marketing iPads as laptop replacements, I would not be surprised to see tiling as a future iPadOS feature.
