Apple Keychain
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
2warn against
Jan 23, 2026first mention
Oct 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I recommend saving additional passkeys to Keychain, etc, as backup”
“when you are prompted to create a passphrase it will ask you to put it in your iCloud Keychain. Boom, now it is available across all of those”
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“iCloud Keychain is end-to-end encrypted, and so Apple doesn't have access to the key.”
Caveats and dissent
“It doesn't help that Apple keychain is a confusing mess however.”
“I still refuse to rely on iCloud’s functionality for this since it is a one-way door”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain 2 mentions
- Passkeys are not a trap 1 mention
- I don't like passkeys 1 mention
- Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year 1 mention
- Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all 1 mention
- 1Password pricing increasing 20% in March 1 mention
Also written as Apple Keychain. Data: apple-keychain.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“Face ID handles it for both iCloud Keychain and Bitwarden”
“You can let Apple sync your passkeys between devices using iCloud Keychain.”
“Apple keeps them in the Keychain, so they seem locked into the OS”
“I recommend saving additional passkeys to Keychain, etc, as backup”
“when you are prompted to create a passphrase it will ask you to put it in your iCloud Keychain. Boom, now it is available across all of those”
“It doesn't help that Apple keychain is a confusing mess however.”
“I still refuse to rely on iCloud’s functionality for this since it is a one-way door”
“iCloud Keychain is end-to-end encrypted, and so Apple doesn't have access to the key.”