Steps to view saved passwords in Safari on Mac

Just like Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and many other popular web browsers, Safari allows you to store your usernames, passwords, and a host of other login information for easy use when you need to quickly log in to a particular web browser. some website.

Through the Keychain feature, those credentials are securely stored and shared across your other Apple devices through iCloud. The same applies to Safari itself, which keeps passwords safe, highly secure.

So how do you review your saved password vault in Safari on your Mac? As well as manually updating or deleting them? Let's find out right here.

View saved passwords in Safari on Mac

Step 1 . Launch Safari by clicking its icon in the Dock. Or you can also press the keyboard shortcut Command + Space to open Spotlight, type 'Safari', then press Enter to launch the app.

Step 2 . Navigate to the menu bar at the top edge of the screen and tap the Safari tab. In the drop-down menu that appears, select 'Preferences' and a corresponding window will open.

Step 3 . On this Safari Preferences window, click the "Passwords" tab. Now, you will be asked to provide a password or identification information through Touch ID, Face ID to verify your identity.

Step 4 . After successful identity verification, you'll see a long list of your saved logins on Safari. There will be 3 main columns of information. In the first column, you can identify the website associated with your username and password. Looking to the next column, you will see your username and in the last column the corresponding password. At first, your password is displayed as a dot. However, when you click on each entry, the detailed password is revealed in full.

Remove or add saved logins on Safari Mac

Now you know how to view saved passwords in Safari on your Mac. So to delete or add more information to the list, how to do it?

Step 1 . To manually add new login information to the list, on the interface that displays the list of passwords, click the 'Add' button in the bottom right corner of the window.

Step 2 . Now, you will need to enter your website URL as well as your login information. Once done, tap 'Add Password' to have Safari auto-fill that information the next time you need to use it. And if you select an item and click 'Remove', Safari will immediately remove the corresponding login information.

Kareem Winters

Update 01 June 2021