Overview
- Apple announced at WWDC that Passwords can use Apple Intelligence and Safari to sign into supported sites, generate stronger passwords, complete the change process and save the new credentials back to the Passwords app.
- The capability runs now in the iOS 27 developer beta, will be available in a public beta next month, and is scheduled for broad release this fall during iOS 27’s general rollout.
- Users see progress through a Live Activity and can trigger one-tap fixes for eligible accounts rather than manually visiting each site to update passwords.
- Apple describes the system as privacy-first, saying most work runs on-device and heavier tasks use Private Cloud Compute with end-to-end encryption and no retained personal data.
- Security researchers warn agentic agents create new risks such as prompt injection and data-retrieval poisoning and recommend visibility, approval workflows, and policy checks before autonomous changes are widely enabled.