Which keychain is which on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad

Apple stores passwords and other secrets in a keychain on your device–but is it the Keychain? The difference confuses some readers. Generally, it works like this: macOS: The operating system maintains multiple keychains, which you can view via Applications Keychain Access. This tool can manage some low-level encryption details, like certificates, and will show at least a System and login (lowercase) keychain. Your login keychain contains the items used for your account, which include Wi-Fi network passwords, network volume passwords,

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