Essentially, what it means is that you won’t have to keep remembering and entering passwords for the applications and websites that you frequent on your Mac. You can also change your Keychain password. That means, when you log in to your system, Keychain Access is automatically activated.
The default password for your Keychain is the same as that of your user account. One of the biggest advantages for Keychain is recovering passwords from iTunes backup when you forgot the backup password.Ī lot of people don’t know that they can even store their non-digital information on Keychain, such as credit card details, bank account PINs and so on. Keychain is automatically created when you first create your user account, and it keeps updating to add passwords for all keychain-aware applications, websites, and servers that you access over time. As mentioned, Keychain is a native password management utility for machines running Mac OS X or macOS.
