Next, navigate back to the main Settings screen and then tap the option for Passwords & Accounts. At the iCloud screen, tap the setting for Keychain and then turn on its switch ( Figure A). Tap your name at the top of the screen and then select iCloud. To enable Keychain on your iPhone or iPad, go to Settings. SEE: Apple iOS 13: A cheat sheet (TechRepublic download) You can change a password through Keychain and delete accounts you no longer need.
You can also edit and manage your saved passwords. Your credentials are stored and synced in an encrypted format through iCloud, so you can use the same ones across an iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Through Keychain, you can save passwords for websites and apps and then retrieve them when you need to sign back into those sites and apps. ICloud Keychain serves as a basic password manager for your iPhone and iPad. For more info, visit our Terms of Use page. This may influence how and where their products appear on our site, but vendors cannot pay to influence the content of our reviews. We may be compensated by vendors who appear on this page through methods such as affiliate links or sponsored partnerships. Learn how iCloud Keychain can help you keep track of your app and website passwords. And hey presto: the WiFi switch became responsive again, and after turning it green, my phone is happily connected to WiFi again.How to use iCloud Keychain to manage passwords on your iPhone or iPad (through Settings -> Apple ID -> iCloud -> Keychain: iCloud Keychain off). So decided to disable Keychain syncing over iCloud like this: This means that if you sync the Keychain with all your devices over iCloud, any reset of the network settings might be overridden immediately as soon as your phone restarts and syncs its data with iCloud.
Arghh.)īut then I realised that information about the wireless networks you visit (their names and passwords) are stored in the Keychain.
(Although it did screw up the settings for some of my apps, as those weren’t fully restored from the backup I made, somehow. Even a full ‘Erase All Content and Settings’ didn’t work. Neither would switching on and off ‘Airplane’ mode, or any of the other tips I could find for this problem on the Internet. In the Settings app WiFi was suddenly disabled, and no matter what I did I could not switch it on: the switch wouldn’t move and stayed ‘greyed out’.Įven doing a ‘Reset Network Settings’ wouldn’t work. After updating my iPhone to iOS 14.0.1 my WiFi stopped working.
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