iCloud Keychain may be surprising for some folks. For example, it can be restored from an iCloud backup only to the same machine. Also, you have no ability to r

iCloud Keychain may be surprising for some folks. For example, it can be restored from an iCloud backup only to the same machine. Also, you have no ability to recover your iCloud keychain from your own time machine backups. The reasons, as the document outlines, are for added security. But, having recently wiped my iCloud keychain by resetting Safari's privacy settings and inadvertently loosing all my passwords, I was surprised to discover that I couldn't restore my passwords from my own backups. The upside is a compromised iCloud password doesn't also leak all the keychain passwords.