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You just open Keychain/Passwords and delete the passwords.

Has been this way for at least a decade.



> You just open Keychain/Passwords and delete the passwords.

This also deletes the local copy of the passwords.


There is a separate iCloud Keychain so you can just copy to your local one.

Or use the Export All Passwords feature in the Passwords app.


> There is a separate iCloud Keychain

No, there is not. If there was a separate iCloud Keychain, then my passwords never would have gotten uploaded in the first place. Most of these passwords were Safari web form logins. Safari stores them where it wants.

> Or use the Export All Passwords feature in the Passwords app.

Export them to where? I want to use the operating system to store my passwords locally. I just don't want them in iCloud.


If you open the keychain app on a Mac you can clearly see the existence of multiple keychains and one explicitly labeled iCloud

iCloud only stores passwords when you're logged into iCloud. Logout and you're local only.

Would it be nice to have no configuration and customization? Sure. People have felt that way for as long as I can remember.


> If you open the keychain app on a Mac

I've been using the Keychain app on the Mac for 20 years.

> you can clearly see the existence of multiple keychains and one explicitly labeled iCloud

There's no "iCloud" keychain if you don't use iCloud Keychain. There is a "Local Items" keychain. Let me emphasize LOCAL in the name. Unfortunately, what happens when iCloud Keychain is enabled (silently, without consent in my case), "Local Items" becomes "iCloud". macOS stores a lot of things in the Local Items keychain, including Safari web form passwords, which is why mine got silently uploaded to iCloud.


>I want to use the operating system to store my passwords locally. I just don't want them in iCloud.

Settings -> Apple ID -> iCloud -> iCloud Passwords & Keychain -> Sync this Mac


Your copy-and-pasted reply is as wrong here as it was there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016863




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