Many of us are guilty of a cardinal cybersecurity sin: We reuse old passwords. In a 2025 survey of 2,300 adults, more than half of respondents said they recycled an existing password when updating accounts with companies that have disclosed data breaches.
But Apple wants to fix this bad habit by flagging and automatically updating compromised or weak passwords you’re using on websites and apps through its new Passwords app feature. The update was announced at the tech giant’s June developers conference.
Following the release, you don’t have to manually update each password ― Apple can do it for you automatically for eligible accounts. You won’t need to sign into each individual app and waste time to do this.
In the developer demo shown at the conference, the iPhone showed a “Fix Passwords” button at the top that a user needed to tap to change multiple passwords in listed apps at once. Then Apple said it would use its artificial intelligence and Safari to update the password in the background, and let you know through an update that will state “Security upgraded.”
The Passwords app will do this through Apple’s processing system for artificial intelligence known as Private Cloud Compute, which says it will not retain any of your data, including via logging or for debugging.
