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Keychain shared with family despite different accounts

Hi all,


As the title says, my family and I are signed into our own Apple IDs on our own devices, but all of our keychain passwords are shared with each other. For example, if they visit a website that I have an account for, my password will be suggested by auto-fill.


How do I separate my keychain from theirs and remove my passwords from their devices? Or can I edit the devices my keychain is shared with?

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 21, 2020 5:59 PM

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Posted on Apr 22, 2020 2:19 AM

As per this article https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh43699/mac

Removing credit card information or account names and passwords in Safari (or with Keychain Access) deletes them from your macOS keychain and from your iCloud Keychain.

you don't need to disturb iCloud Keychain when family sharing is in activation mode , suppose you disable the family sharing account the iCloud Keychain will get corrupted .

Rather delete the websites from safari preferences https://support.apple.com/lt-lt/guide/safari/sfri40599/mac

And change autofill preferences settings for a website https://support.apple.com/lt-lt/guide/safari/ibrwa005/13.0/mac/10.15

Uncheck the box of user names and passwords in safari preferences from the Mac ( where you created the family account as an organiser and you as chief of the family account ) .


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Apr 22, 2020 2:19 AM in response to keychain_-help

As per this article https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh43699/mac

Removing credit card information or account names and passwords in Safari (or with Keychain Access) deletes them from your macOS keychain and from your iCloud Keychain.

you don't need to disturb iCloud Keychain when family sharing is in activation mode , suppose you disable the family sharing account the iCloud Keychain will get corrupted .

Rather delete the websites from safari preferences https://support.apple.com/lt-lt/guide/safari/sfri40599/mac

And change autofill preferences settings for a website https://support.apple.com/lt-lt/guide/safari/ibrwa005/13.0/mac/10.15

Uncheck the box of user names and passwords in safari preferences from the Mac ( where you created the family account as an organiser and you as chief of the family account ) .


Keychain shared with family despite different accounts

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