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by jachee 1095 days ago
Short answer: no.

Longer answer: iCloud Keychain is end-to-end encrypted credential storage, and its workflow is:

Need password -> Secure system hook to Keychain -> Keychain requests unlock via (face/finger/passphrase as appropriate) -> Password decrypted and auto filled.

There are also third-party options, which can nominally use NFC keys[0] as auth factors, but I’m not currently aware of any that actually do.

Personally, I use 1Password, because I’ve still got a Windows box in my world, and need something cross-platform, and since I’m paying for it, I know it’s the product and not me.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationserv...

3 comments

> I know it’s the product and not me

When wealthy clients come knocking with millions/billions of dollars to spend on advertising to, or vacuuming up data on, a company's customers, you are always potentially the product.

Paying for a product/service doesn't mean that there isn't someone with more money willing to pay for your attention or data via that product/service. Those people become a company's real customers.

The OPs workflow is entirely possible with https://github.com/mssun/passforios since over a year ago.
As a side note, I believe iCloud Keychain is supported on Windows now.
I believe you're right.. it has Chrome support on Windows but not macOS :P
what about Ubuntu (or Linux in general)?
Whoa whoa, let’s not get crazy! nice try though! :)