iCloud Keychain shared with family members

A very huge and embarrassing issue, something you do not expect from Apple.

I have the family sharing turned on, in my iCloud.

So, my whole Keychain is incredibly viewable from all my iCloud's family members.

Each member can see all my passwords!


I have read some older conversations about this problem, with frustrated users and not useful advices.

All comments talks about "shared iCloud account" as the cause of the problem, but it isn't.

Every family members has his own Apple ID, and we never shared our accounts with nobody.


At the moment there isn't a proper solution, except to turn off the Family Sharing from iCloud account settings, wipe everything and retry to build it again from zero, adding again members, subscriptions and all other stuffs.

So boring.


Anyway it's really amazing.

Fortunately my family members are okay, but could be a really tragic and dangerous issue for everyone.

I think this issue is pretty rare, but it happens, as witnessed from the several discussions here about this.

In my case it was a minor problem, but could be really huge for other users.


The other unbelievable fact, is that we discovered this just accidentally. One of the family members has noticed it just searching his passwords in iPhone settings. Shocked to see there not only his own passwords, but all of mine too, and all of the third family member's too. That's crazy.

Tons of users can have this problem, just still not noticed.

Curiously, i can't see other member's passwords, but they both can see mine. And I am the administrator of the Family.


This is potentially a passwordgate.


iPhone 13 mini

Posted on Jun 24, 2023 05:01 PM

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Posted on Mar 5, 2024 09:10 AM

@glaumar YES!! Same exact thing has happened to me! "somehow"🪄.. ALL my keychain passwords are one my husbands phone?? And you're right, its kind of crazy🤔 how they can see our info, but we can't see anything of theirs and where the family administrator ???? It's really unacceptable, and the fact that there isn't a better answer anywhere in this forum, explaining why, or more importantly, HOW this happened??? And we deserve a proper answer on how to fix it!! because if that's happening right under our nose, and we had almost missed it, we came across it by accident!! then what else is just "Showing up " on someone else's phone that we don't know about yet? I'm just glad it was my husbands phone and not my kids that had FULL ACCESS to these passwords on some of the sites!! 😳 @applesupport

Can you please explain HOW this is happening? And a way to fix it, other then hand deleting each and every password???? Thanks cover blown

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Mar 5, 2024 09:10 AM in response to glaumar

@glaumar YES!! Same exact thing has happened to me! "somehow"🪄.. ALL my keychain passwords are one my husbands phone?? And you're right, its kind of crazy🤔 how they can see our info, but we can't see anything of theirs and where the family administrator ???? It's really unacceptable, and the fact that there isn't a better answer anywhere in this forum, explaining why, or more importantly, HOW this happened??? And we deserve a proper answer on how to fix it!! because if that's happening right under our nose, and we had almost missed it, we came across it by accident!! then what else is just "Showing up " on someone else's phone that we don't know about yet? I'm just glad it was my husbands phone and not my kids that had FULL ACCESS to these passwords on some of the sites!! 😳 @applesupport

Can you please explain HOW this is happening? And a way to fix it, other then hand deleting each and every password???? Thanks cover blown

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