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I use Secure Notes in Keychain quite a bit and have amassed a collection over the years. Under Sequoia, I no longer seem to be able to create a new secure note. Choosing the "Create a new keychain item" icon brings up the "New Password" dialogue regardless of whether passwords or notes are being displayed.
Is this a bug?
Mac mini, macOS 15.0
> I've got about 50 items in the Keychain Secure Notes. Where did they go after in installed Sequoia?
The Keychain Access app has been moved and it's no longer visible in Launchpad. Instead you need to Spotlight search (⌘+space) for "Keychain" and you can run it from there.
HELP PLEASE! ! How do I get into my Secure Note? .... I have hundreds of PWs and records in Keychain /Secure Note that I can no longer access .!&^##*!!??! I read now this is related to my updating to Sequoia!!!! Without access to these PWs I am lost, blocked for work I need to do, and angry! BAH!
Hi DNoreen,
The answer to your question is in this thread already but Apple make it hard to find because, by default, they don't display the messages in order. :-(
Change to "sort by oldest" and then read through and you'll find your answer.
BruceH2013 wrote:
Hi DNoreen,
The answer to your question is in this thread already but Apple make it hard to find because, by default, they don't display the messages in order. :-(
Change to "sort by oldest" and then read through and you'll find your answer.
The default sort, order of highest rated, should provide the answer at the top. However, most people like to upvote the whining, not the solution as if that is somehow helpful.
Two solutions...
For storing extra info with a password; for example, the subscription key for the products associated with the login. In the new Passwords app you can edit a password entry--analogous to editing a contact. Locate the item and "edit" it. Then put info in the Notes field. https://www.idownloadblog.com/2022/04/29/how-to-add-notes-to-icloud-keychain-passwords/
For saving secure info that's not associated with a specific login. Create a Notes entry and lock it with a password. In the previous Keychain Access app you could have a password on a complete keychain. The same password protected all notes in the keychain. In Notes you could use the same password for each note in a group of secure notes. FYI, I chose to put these notes in iCloud so I could access them across my devices. To help find them I created a Notes folder for my "secure" notes.
Now to figure out how to export secure notes from Keychain Access. May be easy, just haven't looked.
Looks like one way and I've already started experimenting with it. But do note (see my comment above/below) that in the new Passwords app you can attach notes to a password--much like attaching notes to a Contacts app entry.
I actually like the Notes app so this is an easy transition for me. I keep a lot of, well, notes in Notes and Freeform. Both are compatible with the Apple Pencil on my iPad. (At least the second-gen Apple Pencil.)
@Barney: Thanks!
do you mean a locked note in the Notes.app? Is that strongly encrypted too?
I do have FileVault on of course, but locked notes are shared on all devices, I am wondering whether the level of encryption is as good as keychain access...
(Never mind.)
So is the proposed solution to use the notes app and secure the notes instead of using keychain?
Sequoia: Keychain Access cannot create a new secure note
