Apple’s new AI wants to fix your bad passwords.
At its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple said its Passwords app will soon be able to update eligible weak or compromised passwords.
“Now, you can automatically update eligible accounts to strong passwords with just a tap,” Beth Dakin, a senior manager on the engineering team for Apple’s browser app, Safari, said during the event.
She said that the system would “agentically take action on your behalf.”
Apple already alerts users when a saved password is weak, reused, or may have been exposed in a data breach. The coming feature goes a step further, Apple said, by allowing users to change a compromised password with a single tap on a blue button on the Security page within the Passwords app.
The Passwords app works with Apple’s AI, Apple Intelligence, and Safari to navigate websites, sign in, and upgrade passwords.
The password safety tool was among the subtler updates discussed during Apple’s keynote on Monday, which also included flashy AI features like a more advanced Siri, enhanced photo editing tools, and improved device search.
Still, Apple’s password update is significant because it is built into Safari and Passwords, popular tools pre-loaded onto most Apple products.
Apple isn’t the first tech company to offer a password changer. Google said in 2021 that its Chrome browser could help change compromised passwords with a single tap on supported sites. At Google’s I/O conference in 2025, Google also previewed a Chrome feature that can automatically change weak or compromised passwords on supported sites with user consent.
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— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) June 9, 2026
Marques Brownlee, the tech reviewer with more than 21 million YouTube followers, called Apple’s Passwords app update “super clever” in a video posted on Tuesday.
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