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iPad User Guide

Automatically fill in strong passwords on iPad

When you sign up for services on websites and in apps, you can let iPad create strong passwords for many of your accounts.

iPad stores the passwords in the Passwords app or your chosen password manager, and fills them in for you automatically, so you don’t have to memorize them.

Note: If you use a third-party password manager, you can accept the strong passwords suggested by the password manager or enter your own. Your passwords are saved in the password manager.

Instead of requiring you to sign in with passwords, participating websites and apps support these alternatives:

Create a strong password for a new account

Depending on the website or app, creating a strong password and saving it to the Passwords app usually consists of steps similar to these.

  1. On the new account screen for the website or app, enter a new account name.

    For supported websites and apps, iPad suggests a unique, complex password.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • Choose the suggested password: Tap Use Strong Password.

    • Edit the suggested password: Tap Other Options, tap Edit Strong Password, tap the password text field, then make your changes.

    • Get a different strong password: Tap Other Options, tap Edit Strong Password, then tap the suggested password.

    • Get a strong password consisting of only numbers and letters: Tap Other Options, then tap No Special Characters.

    • Get a strong password that’s easy to type: Tap Other Options, then tap Easy to Type.

    • Make up your own password: Tap Other Options, then tap Choose My Own Password.

  3. To copy the password so you can paste it into a Confirm Password field if asked, tap Other Options, then tap Copy Strong Password.

  4. To securely add and keep notes about recovery key information, security questions, PIN numbers, and similar details, enter them in the Notes field.

    To view the notes later, go to the Passwords app 👁 Image
    on your iPad, tap All, then tap the account.

  5. To later allow iPad to automatically fill in the password for you, tap Yes when you’re asked if you want to save the password.

Automatically fill in a saved password

Depending on the website or app, signing in with your saved password usually consists of steps similar to these.

  1. On the sign-in screen for the website or app, tap the account name field.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • Tap the account suggested at the bottom of the screen or near the top of the keyboard.

    • Tap 👁 the Password AutoFill button
      ,       tap Other Passwords, then tap an account.

    The password is filled in. To see the password, tap 👁 the Show Password Text button
    .

To enter an account or password that isn’t saved, tap 👁 the Keyboard button
on the sign-in screen.

Turn Password AutoFill on or off

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
     on your iPad.

  2. Tap General, then tap AutoFill & Passwords.

  3. Turn AutoFill Passwords and Passkeys on or off.

You can automatically fill passwords from up to three passwords apps.

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