When you create an account on a website or app, your iPhone will help you by auto-suggesting a strong password. It’s a good feature, but it feels forced and gets in your way if you want to use your own password. This tutorial will show you how to disable password suggestions on your iPhone.
How to Turn Off Password Suggestions on iPhone
Strong password suggestions on your iPhone are a part of the AutoFill functionality in Apple Keychain. Because of that, the only way to disable password suggestions is to deactivate password auto-filling.
If you don’t mind that, here’s how to turn off strong password suggestions on iPhone:
- Open the Settings app via the Home Screen or App Library.
- Scroll down and tap Passwords.
- Tap Password Options.
- Disable the switch next to AutoFill Passwords and Passkeys.
If you don’t want to miss out on Keychain’s password auto-filling capabilities, disable the AutoFill Passwords and Passkeys option in step 4 only when creating a new account and then turn it back on afterward.
Using a Third-Party Password Manager on iPhone?
Things work differently if you use a third-party password manager on your iPhone. You can disable password auto-filling for iCloud Keychain, including strong password suggestions, while auto-filling passwords with the third-party password manager. Here’s how:
- Open the Settings app.
- Go to Passwords > Password Options.
- Disable iCloud Keychain but keep the third-party password manager enabled.
Doable But Inconvenient
You can turn off strong password suggestions on your iPhone but at the cost of auto-filling saved passwords in Apple Keychain. If you use a third-party password manager, you shouldn’t have trouble disabling password suggestions while continuing to autofill passwords as usual.
