If you have installed the incloud app on windows, and you will be able to access an app called icloud password'
opening it it will prompt you to login with icloud account.
Actually I have tried to play with it but it seems that I was not able to review any of the password using nvda.
Fair enough, and you are correct. I originally read an article from Apple Support that claimed this was not possible, hence the subject of my last post, but alas, upon further investigation I found the following article, which gives instructions. So, Dennis, you can, in fact, do this, but whether or not it is accessible will be up to you. According to the instructions below, it is a browser extension, and will replace your browsers builtin password manager. This is for Chrome and Edge, so your mileage may vary.
Ok, so it's been a bit since I've used it, having exported everything and then imported in to Chrome, since moving away from both Mac and iOS. What I can say:
1. It takes a sec to activate the extension, and sometimes NVDA wouldn't always read the code iCloud for Windows would generate for you to enter in to the extension. You would need to alt tab away and then back. Once you enter it, then for as long as the browser stays open, you can just keep using it without having to enter in any more codes. But, it seems like you have to do this any time you close completely out of the browser and then open it again. I did find this to be rather annoying.
2. When active, it is easy enough to auto fill an icloud password.
3. One thing I did notice is that with the iCloud passwords extension, it didn't seem to save passwords for new sites, just stuff you already had on iCloud. It didn't seem to auto save anything new.
4. I was able to also see a list of accounts in the iCloud app and even change a password when it didn't auto update.
It's been a few months since I last used this, but I doubt much has changed.
I am surprised Apple has not designed something like authenticator, but for Windows. Seems like an app running under the same principal as OneDrive would give better functionality. 🤷
I used this some months ago with NVDA, and it didn't add new passwords, nor it asked some caode. All it did was to autofill some passwords, but I couldn't get it to add new passwords. I suspect that some notification appears but NVDA is unable to read it. So I disabled it and now I use the default password manager built into edge. I wish it would add new sites so I could use that instead. It'd make my job a lot of easier whien dealing with passwords.
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From what I have gleamed from the internet, Keychain is not accessible via anything outside of Apple's ecosystem.
@Brian you are not correct…
@Brian you are not correct.
If you have installed the incloud app on windows, and you will be able to access an app called icloud password'
opening it it will prompt you to login with icloud account.
Actually I have tried to play with it but it seems that I was not able to review any of the password using nvda.
Update
Fair enough, and you are correct. I originally read an article from Apple Support that claimed this was not possible, hence the subject of my last post, but alas, upon further investigation I found the following article, which gives instructions. So, Dennis, you can, in fact, do this, but whether or not it is accessible will be up to you. According to the instructions below, it is a browser extension, and will replace your browsers builtin password manager. This is for Chrome and Edge, so your mileage may vary.
Link is below, best of luck~. . . 🙂
https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/set-up-icloud-passwords-icw2babf5e03/icloud
Ok, so it's been a bit since…
Ok, so it's been a bit since I've used it, having exported everything and then imported in to Chrome, since moving away from both Mac and iOS. What I can say:
1. It takes a sec to activate the extension, and sometimes NVDA wouldn't always read the code iCloud for Windows would generate for you to enter in to the extension. You would need to alt tab away and then back. Once you enter it, then for as long as the browser stays open, you can just keep using it without having to enter in any more codes. But, it seems like you have to do this any time you close completely out of the browser and then open it again. I did find this to be rather annoying.
2. When active, it is easy enough to auto fill an icloud password.
3. One thing I did notice is that with the iCloud passwords extension, it didn't seem to save passwords for new sites, just stuff you already had on iCloud. It didn't seem to auto save anything new.
4. I was able to also see a list of accounts in the iCloud app and even change a password when it didn't auto update.
It's been a few months since I last used this, but I doubt much has changed.
icloud password management is it accessible on Windows?
Has anyone tried it recently and have up to date info?
I was using it about 2-3…
I was using it about 2-3 months ago.
that sucks
If it would let you do those things you can't do that would make it nice.
Slightly outside the scope...
I am surprised Apple has not designed something like authenticator, but for Windows. Seems like an app running under the same principal as OneDrive would give better functionality. 🤷
I used this some months ago…
I used this some months ago with NVDA, and it didn't add new passwords, nor it asked some caode. All it did was to autofill some passwords, but I couldn't get it to add new passwords. I suspect that some notification appears but NVDA is unable to read it. So I disabled it and now I use the default password manager built into edge. I wish it would add new sites so I could use that instead. It'd make my job a lot of easier whien dealing with passwords.