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You just open Keychain/Passwords and delete the passwords. Has been this way for at least a decade.

by threeseed 2y ago

lapcat 2y ago
> You just open Keychain/Passwords and delete the passwords. This also deletes the local copy of the passwords.
- threeseed 2y ago
  There is a separate iCloud Keychain so you can just copy to your local one. Or use the Export All Passwords feature in the Passwords app.
  - lapcat 2y ago
    > There is a separate iCloud Keychain No, there is not. If there was a separate iCloud Keychain, then my passwords never would have gotten uploaded in the first place. Most of these passwords were Safari web form logins. Safari stores them where it wants. > Or use the Export All Passwords feature in the Passwords app. Export them to where? I want to use the operating system to store my passwords locally. I just don't want them in iCloud.
    - tonyedgecombe 2y ago
      >I want to use the operating system to store my passwords locally. I just don't want them in iCloud. Settings -> Apple ID -> iCloud -> iCloud Passwords & Keychain -> Sync this Mac
      - lapcat 2y ago
        Your copy-and-pasted reply is as wrong here as it was there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016863
    - thejazzman 2y ago
      If you open the keychain app on a Mac you can clearly see the existence of multiple keychains and one explicitly labeled iCloud iCloud only stores passwords when you're logged into iCloud. Logout and you're local only. Would it be nice to have no configuration and customization? Sure. People have felt that way for as long as I can remember.
      - lapcat 2y ago
        > If you open the keychain app on a Mac I've been using the Keychain app on the Mac for 20 years. > you can clearly see the existence of multiple keychains and one explicitly labeled iCloud There's no "iCloud" keychain if you don't use iCloud Keychain. There is a "Local Items" keychain. Let me emphasize LOCAL in the name. Unfortunately, what happens when iCloud Keychain is enabled (silently, without consent in my case), "Local Items" becomes "iCloud". macOS stores a lot of things in the Local Items keychain, including Safari web form passwords, which is why mine got silently uploaded to iCloud.

You just open Keychain/Passwords and delete the passwords. Has been this way for at least a decade.

lapcat 2y ago

> You just open Keychain/Passwords and delete the passwords. This also deletes the local copy of the passwords.

threeseed 2y ago
There is a separate iCloud Keychain so you can just copy to your local one. Or use the Export All Passwords feature in the Passwords app.
- lapcat 2y ago
  > There is a separate iCloud Keychain No, there is not. If there was a separate iCloud Keychain, then my passwords never would have gotten uploaded in the first place. Most of these passwords were Safari web form logins. Safari stores them where it wants. > Or use the Export All Passwords feature in the Passwords app. Export them to where? I want to use the operating system to store my passwords locally. I just don't want them in iCloud.
  - tonyedgecombe 2y ago
    >I want to use the operating system to store my passwords locally. I just don't want them in iCloud. Settings -> Apple ID -> iCloud -> iCloud Passwords & Keychain -> Sync this Mac
    - lapcat 2y ago
      Your copy-and-pasted reply is as wrong here as it was there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016863
  - thejazzman 2y ago
    If you open the keychain app on a Mac you can clearly see the existence of multiple keychains and one explicitly labeled iCloud iCloud only stores passwords when you're logged into iCloud. Logout and you're local only. Would it be nice to have no configuration and customization? Sure. People have felt that way for as long as I can remember.
    - lapcat 2y ago
      > If you open the keychain app on a Mac I've been using the Keychain app on the Mac for 20 years. > you can clearly see the existence of multiple keychains and one explicitly labeled iCloud There's no "iCloud" keychain if you don't use iCloud Keychain. There is a "Local Items" keychain. Let me emphasize LOCAL in the name. Unfortunately, what happens when iCloud Keychain is enabled (silently, without consent in my case), "Local Items" becomes "iCloud". macOS stores a lot of things in the Local Items keychain, including Safari web form passwords, which is why mine got silently uploaded to iCloud.