But there’s more to know about passwords and the Mac’s ability to store them than the simple fact that they exist. Our Macs can store these passwords and, in many cases, automatically fill them in when needed. We have passwords for logging on to our Macs, accessing our iOS devices, checking our email, receiving instant messages and texts, purchasing real and virtual goods, yacking on social networking services, streaming music and movies-the list goes on and on.įortunately, we no longer need to scribble down each and every password on a hunk of binder paper that we tape to our desks in plain sight. In what may seem like a step backward, we now juggle dozens of passwords.
Shopping-site passwords? What shopping sites? iTunes Store? App Store? Mac App Store? Didn’t exist. In the innocent days of our computing youth, many of us had to memorize just one password-the one we used to send and retrieve our email over a glacially slow dial-up connection.
