iCloud Keychain

[suburbiaboy]

Hi JD,

Is it now possible to sync Yummy passwords using iCloud Keychain?

It's not entirely clear (like much of iCloud) what's actually happening. Yummy stores it's passwords in the default (login) keychain and not in the iCloud keychain I assume but does that mean they are not sync'd to iCloud? It seems weird that the iCloud keychain doesn't become the system default...

Cheers, Jamie

[JD]

Good question, and I'm not 100% sure so I'll report back, but what I do know is that once enabled all your current keychain entries are copied to iCloud. After that I think you need to specifically use iCloud APIs to update that password, rather than the local one… that's the unclear bit. I'll investigate.

[suburbiaboy]

Thanks JD. I had a play with it but I couldn't make it work with Yummy (as far as sync). As you said it seems like the app needs to know about the iCloud keychain, which is really odd. Why wouldn't they just sync the default?

[JD]

It's as I thought, unfortunately. Shame it doesn't Just Work as the old Mac tradition used to be.