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I don't understand by which criteria a password is saved to Keychain vs Safari. Can I select somewhere where the passwords will be saved? Let's say that I want all my passwords to be kept in Keychain, how to?

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    I am pretty positive that Safari passwords are stored on the keychain. and with keychain syncing(iCloud keychain) . it allows all your devices to have the same password repository(credit cards too).
    – tik27
    Commented Apr 26, 2019 at 17:49
  • Why do you think that the safari passwords are not all saved to key chain?
    – mmmmmm
    Commented Apr 26, 2019 at 19:19

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Like Tik27 said, when Safari saves a password it is saving it to the Mac Keychain. There is no way for Safari to actually save a password, it hands it off to the keychain.

So any time Safari (or Mail.app, Finder, etc.) offers to save a password it is being saved in the keychain.

you can verify this by signing on to a new website with a username and password, letting Safari prompt you to save the password and then opening Keychain.app and seeing the new username/password saved there with a date/time stamp of only minutes ago.

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    Hi Steve, my question was related to the fact that i cannot find one password present in Safari Passwords but not in Mac Keychain. I did the recommended test and the password was saved both in Safari Passwords as well in Keychain. So I don't know what previously happened... Thanks! BTW: I have the iCloud switched off, but this should have no impact except on sync between devices.
    – user331543
    Commented Apr 27, 2019 at 8:59

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