{"id":31520,"date":"2021-02-02T16:54:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31520"},"modified":"2021-02-02T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:54:36","slug":"chrome-browser-extension-for-icloud-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/chrome-browser-extension-for-icloud-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome Browser Extension for iCloud Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/02\/01\/apple-chrome-extension-icloud-passwords-windows\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/02\/01\/apple-chrome-extension-icloud-passwords-windows\/\"><p>Apple has released an iCloud password extension for Google&rsquo;s Chrome browser on Windows that allows  iCloud  Keychain passwords to be used on PCs.<\/p><p>Called simply &ldquo;iCloud Passwords,&rdquo; the extension allows users to access passwords in Google Chrome that have been generated in Apple&rsquo;s Safari browser. It also enables  iCloud  syncing of passwords generated in Chrome, making them available on Apple devices, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2021\/02\/icloud-keychain-comes-to-chrome-but-sadly-only-on-windows\/\">Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2021\/02\/icloud-keychain-comes-to-chrome-but-sadly-only-on-windows\/\">\n<p>As I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3605095\/how-apple-flips-the-switch-and-keeps-bringing-in-new-customres.html\">just this week in Macworld<\/a>, Apple has used a number of strategies to encourage users to switch to its products, among them, the &ldquo;ice water in hell&rdquo; approach of adapting some of its own software to rival platforms. That&rsquo;s at least part of the reasoning behind Apple&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/icloud-passwords\/pejdijmoenmkgeppbflobdenhhabjlaj\">iCloud Keychain extension for Chrome<\/a>, which extends the password manager feature from its own ecosystem to Chrome users on Windows.<\/p>\n<p>But not, interestingly, to Chrome users on the Mac, even though the extension can be installed in that version of Google&rsquo;s browser. However, according to the text on the extension&rsquo;s page, it appears to be designed to specifically work with iCloud for Windows, so it doesn&rsquo;t actually do anything on the Mac beyond providing a broken interface.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: Apple has released an iCloud password extension for Google&rsquo;s Chrome browser on Windows that allows iCloud Keychain passwords to be used on PCs.Called simply &ldquo;iCloud Passwords,&rdquo; the extension allows users to access passwords in Google Chrome that have been generated in Apple&rsquo;s Safari browser. It also enables iCloud syncing of passwords generated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-02-02T21:54:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"7585f0ef-526f-411f-93b4-e68dc53cad33","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-02-02T21:54:41Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AdYXw71JvQR-TtOaNxTytMw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[456,1417,30,1891,981,269,219],"class_list":["post-31520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-googlechrome","tag-icloud-keychain","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-passwords","tag-syncing","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31521,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520\/revisions\/31521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}