How To Access Icloud Keychain Passwords On Imac

- as os x evolves, it gets better and better password features, generating passwords for you, as well as saving passwords within safari. but there may be times when it knows

How To Access Icloud Keychain Passwords On Imac, about a password that you don't and you have no idea how to recover it. let me show you the trick. with spotlight, i'm going to launch keychain access,

this is the utility where os x stores passwords and certificates. now, let's say that i've forgotten an old gmail password. so i'll just type gmail into the search field and here are my gmail entries. happens this very first one is the entry i'm looking for. so i double click on it and in the window that appears, i'll enable the show password option.

i'm then prompted for my administrator's password for this account, i'll enter it now and click ok. and here is my password. you'll notice that it says notrealpassword. that's because i'm no longer using this password. you can try it and it won't work at all. now all i have to do is make a note of that password and i can start using that account again. and that's it.

a simple way to recover your passwords.