Apple Platform Security
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple platform security
- Hardware security and biometrics
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System security
- System security overview
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Secure boot
- Boot process for iPad and iPhone devices
- Memory safe iBoot implementation
- Mac computers with Apple silicon
- Intel-based Mac computers
- Signed system volume security
- Secure software updates
- Background Security Improvements
- Operating system integrity
- Device pairing and connection security
- BlastDoor for Messages and IDS
- Lockdown Mode security
- Overview of additional macOS system security capabilities
- System security for watchOS
- Random number generation
- Communicating emergency information using satellites
- Apple Security Research Device
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Encryption and Data Protection
- Encryption and Data Protection overview
- Quantum-secure cryptography with Apple devices
- Passcodes and passwords
- Data Protection
- FileVault
- How Apple protects users personal data
- Digital signing and encryption
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App security
- App security overview
- App code signing process
- App security in iOS, iPadOS and visionOS
- App security in macOS
- Supporting extensions
- Secure features in the Notes app
- Secure features in the Shortcuts app
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Services security
- Services security overview
- Apple Account and Managed Apple Account
- iCloud
- Passcode and password management
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Apple Pay
- Apple Pay security overview
- Apple Pay component security
- How Apple Pay keeps users purchases protected
- Credit, debit and pre-paid cards
- Payment authorisation with Apple Pay
- Paying with cards using Apple Pay
- Contactless passes in Apple Pay
- Rendering cards unusable with Apple Pay
- Apple Card security
- Apple Cash security
- Tap to Pay on iPhone
- Using Apple Wallet
- iMessage
- Secure Apple Messages for Business
- FaceTime security
- Find My
- Continuity
- Network security
- Developer kit security
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Secure device management
- Secure device management overview
- Device management
- Apple Configurator security
- Screen Time security
- Glossary
- Document revision history
- Copyright and trademarks
[]Password AutoFill security
Password AutoFill automatically fills credentials stored in the keychain. The iCloud Keychain password manager and Password AutoFill provide the following features:
Filling in credentials in apps and websites
Generating strong passwords
Saving passwords in both apps and websites in Safari
Sharing passwords securely with a users contacts
Providing passwords to a nearby Apple TV thats requesting credentials
Generating and saving passwords within apps, as well as providing passwords to Apple TV, are available only in iOS, iPadOS and visionOS.
Password AutoFill in apps
iOS, iPadOS and visionOS allow users to input saved usernames and passwords into credential-related fields in apps, similar to the way Password AutoFill works in Safari. On iPad and iPhone, users tap a key affordance in the software keyboards QuickType bar. On Mac, for apps built with Mac Catalyst, a Passwords drop-down menu appears below credential-related fields.
When an app is strongly associated with a website that uses the same app-website association mechanism and thats powered by the same apple-app-site-association file, the iOS and iPadOS QuickType bar and macOS drop-down menu directly suggest credentials for the app, if any are saved to the Password AutoFill Keychain. This allows users to choose to disclose Safari-saved credentials to apps with the same security properties, without those apps having to adopt an API.
Password AutoFill exposes no credential information to an app until a user consents to release a credential to the app. The credential lists are drawn from or presented out of the apps process.
When an app and website have a trusted relationship and a user submits credentials within an app, iOS, iPadOS and visionOS may prompt the user to save those credentials to the Password AutoFill keychain for later use.