Sync system and icloud keychains

Hi,
I had to reset the network settings on my iPhone 5 and then I noticed it had deleted all my wifi passwords from iCloud Keychain.
Accessing the Keychain app on my Mac, I can see that all the passwords are still in my "system keychain", however, I cannot copy them to the "iCloud keychain".
Is there any way to copy or sync the "Airport network passwords" from the system keychain into the iCloud keychain?
Thanks

Didn't it keep syncing with both iTunes and iCloud even after installing iTunes 11? (PC or Mac?)
Ever since iCloud came out in 2011 I've had a configuration where I sync some calendars with iCloud and one with Outlook via iTunes. Until today I didn't even realize they had removed the option from iTunes after 10.7 because I think it kept working even after the upgrade. (I guess the new UI wouldn't let me select that option, but since I already had it configured, I think it kept working that way.)
However, today I cycled my iCloud calendars off and then back on again to solve a different problem and then I was unable to turn on syncing with Outlook again. I stumbled across this article and it all came together: "iTunes 10.7 or earlier will allow you to enable iTunes sync for Calendars even if you are already using iCloud Calendar on your computer."
Since I think it was working even under iTunes 11, I'm considering restoring from a backup from a couple of days ago to see if that will restore the configuration I had. But you're making me wonder if that will work.

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Hi, my MBP retina broke and the Apple service change the mother board.
I lost some key chained password, looking around i follow the iCloud request approval with success.
Could be new mother board means new MAC!
So i discover before the approval, that some passwords are inside my MBP (masked as login) and other are on iCloud (marked as iCloud).
Is it possible to sync the two repositories for have all the passwords aligned?
Many thanks for an answer.
Simone

Hi Everret.
Aside from keychain, you can access your iCloud keychain on your iOS devices.
All you need to do is go to your Settings > Safari > Password > Autofill > Saved Passwords (you will need to enter your device passcode)
and then you can now view all the saved password from your iOS device.
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It sounds like you're seeing an issue when trying to sync your iPhone. The article linked below describes why those alert messages appear and how to resolve issues related to them.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1503
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Sync Outlook and iCloud

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PING to the server was lost imap.mail.me.com
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Syncing devices and Icloud

I have been trying to set up my Iphone, Ipad, Windows desktop and Windows laptop to sync my contacts and calender using Icloud
Now although the contacts seem to sync fine using the Icloud Manager the only way I can sync my calenders is by cable and ITunes, using the laptop as the base device.
My Calender in Icloud remains blank and I cant see a way to merge them all.
Am I missing soething so very simple or have others had this problem?
Yes I've looked at the support page which to be honest is about as much use as a chocolate Fire Guard
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After calling Tech Support and running a bunch of iCal event creation/edit/deletion tests from all devices, realized that problem is limited to old events that existed in iCal on my MacBook prior to installation of Lion. Tech Support unable to solve problem, but workaround is to delete old events from all sources and create new events.

ITunes Still Not Syncing Notes and iCloud Confidence

Well it seems that the loss of USB Notes synchronisation functionality in iTunes at 10.8.1 was deliberate.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4191?viewlocale=en_US
Contacts are now synchronising via iTunes again as of 10.8.2 and iOS 6 formal release but not Notes.
You must now use either iCloud or an IMAP email account that Telstra (biggest Australian telco) does not offer.
Apple will get dissaffected customers if they start to withdraw functionality that was working on your model of iDevice.
They also need to develop better sensitivity to their travelling customers being stung via data usage.
Give users adequate control & iDevice cache data if possible - think Facetime optimisation, Maps update, iCloud Sync etc.
I am reluctant to embrace iCloud as I periodically travel overseas and Global Roaming can send you broke as matters stand.
I can not just turn off roaming or cellular data as I need to get SMS and updates to passbook for boarding passes & tickets.
Also Notes on an iDevice may have confidentiality or intellectual property sensitivity; do you want them on a public server?
I notice too that Photo Stream is getting advertising - again increasing data usage - so what comes next with iCloud cost-wise?
We need an international treaty so that global roaming can no more than double your bill per service - split 50-50 home-away.
Perhaps Apple could facilitate some such arrangement before the masses of new users loose confidence in smart devices?

Sorry about that. Well, I've tried deleting the AlbumData.xml file as suggested also, but iPhoto itself generates a new file every time it's opened, so that's really a dead end. Rebuilding the library and through iPhoto Library Manager are the steps that required most work, and both did not work either, unfortunately.
I do believe that I'm not the only experiencing iTunes syncing problem, as there have been many posts here before when 9.4 came out. Like I wrote, it has been better with each upgrade, so there's definitely something in the coding with 9.4.x that messes things up. I had no trouble whatsoever with version 9.3.2 and prior to that.
Terence Devlin wrote:
Please share a comprehensive list of things you've already tried so we won't your time - and ours - making suggestions you already know won't work.
Library size is not part of this issue. 12k photos is not a large library these days, I have one four times that size with no syncing issues.
Regards
TD

Share iCloud KeyChain & Bookmarks?

Hey gang... I have a question as it relates to iCloud and more specifically, icloud Keychain.
Up until now, the way my wife and I have things setup is we have one family icloud account which we use for all our iTunes and Apple Store purchases and then we each have our own separate icloud account for our personal emails, calendars etc.
Would it be a good idea to use the Family iCloud account as both of our main accounts on iOS devices so we can share/sync bookmarks and iCloud Keychain and then our separate personal icloud account would be added as a second account.
The downside to this approach is since the iOS 7 upgrade, Apple only allows the primary icloud account on the iOS device to have documents/data, bookmarks and keychain. Secondary accounts do not have these options. This will result in us certainly going over the free GB storage provided by iCloud since we back our devices to the cloud.
Any suggestions/recommendations? We share approximately 80-90% of our website logins to most message boards, financial sites etc so it would make sense to have a shared iCloud Keychain that is always in sync and up to date.
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Yep - I just ran into this for iCloud Keychain. Like you, I've set up for my wife and I a shared iCloud account that we use for Contacts and Calendar so we always have the same data on our iPhones and Macbooks.
We've also used a shared LastPass account for a few years. I just got a 5s with the fingerprint reader and thought that was worth trying to switch to iCloud Keychain. However, I quickly ran into this dumb limitation of Apple not allowing this for a non-primary iCloud account. This totally makes the feature useless for us - like you - and like many other families.
iCloud in general is just not designed with sharing/families in mind, which is very sad. This hurts their customers in many areas including iBooks, NewsStand, Pages/Numbers/Keynote with docs stored in iCloud. Do they really expect a family to buy multiple copies of the same book? To have to email documents to each other to share (forget about collaborative editing)? Even setting up shared calendar and contacts that I did took a lot of work and would be beyond the ability of a large percentage of home users.
I don't suppose anyone here has any connection to Apple developers who could give some sort of response to this issue? I guess I could go to one of my local Apple Stores and talk to a "Genious" about this. I'm sure it would be an exercise in futility like I've had on several previous occasions when asking about iOS and/or OSX features. It always starts with some confusion in trying to get them to understand what I'm asking. That's usually followed by comments from them to the effect of "why would anyone want to do that". And, finally, if I can convince them that it's actually something really useful, followed by comments to the effect of "It just doesn't do that. Thanks for coming in!".
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Google 2 Step Verification on Gmail causing 10.9 issues with iCloud Keychain Sync?

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I have just installed 10.9 on my Air 2011 and it works fine. I signed up the iCloud Keychain sync. I also updated my iPhone to iOS 7.0.3 and also signed up for iCloud keychain sync. All appeared well until I set up my iMac 2009. This had the same email accounts setup but as POP not IMAP (my bad) and so I ended up with multiple email account copies everywhere. I corrected this on each device without issue. Managed to lock an exchange account for work but I can sort that through IT support tomorrow. Anyway an issue with my Gmail cropped up. As I have 2 step verification enabled I have application specific passwords for each device. Now I found that the iMac (last to move to 10.9) propagated its app specific password to the Air and then locked the Gmail access out. If I correct on the Air it propagates back to the iMac locking that out of my Gmail account.
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Yep. My other iMac works now too on App specific passwords and iCloud Keychain sync. So that is my iPad, iPhone, Mac Pro, Air, iMac 2012 all working fine on Gmail App Specific passwords. Just my iMac 2009, presume its my bad and in need of a revoke. Sorry for wasting all your time.

Impossible to delete POP accounts from iCloud keychain and SMTP not working

Hello,
After an aborted Mavericks clean install, I reverted to Mountain Lion via Time Machine and started experimenting with iCloud Keychain on Mavericks using trashable Virtual Machines.
I am hitting two serious problems with email accounts :
1. I turned on iCloud keychain ONLY on my Mavericks test installs (not on my iOS device)
2. First time I turned it on and used my usual AppleID, the test install retrieved all my email accounts (I have many of all types)
3. I could not make password SMTPS work on any IMAP accounts, so I decided to delete ALL email accounts from my iCloud Keychain
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Every time I delete them again from ALL keychains they disappear, but anytime I launch Mail they come back, and if I delete them again, and then I add a new email account they come back.
No way to delete them from ALL keychains
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Restore it as new. Why wouldn't you do that when purchasing a used device from another individual?

How can I use iCloud-keychain if i can not find my country in the country code list?

How can I use iCloud-keychain if i can not find my country in the country code list?

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If your country code does not appear in the list…
Go to System Preferences > iCloud > Keychain and enter your Apple ID password (Settings > iCloud > Keychain, from a mobile device)
Select the ‘Create Different Code’ option. (Mobile devices only)
Select the advanced option and choose whether to create a random code or no code, selecting the later allows syncing across devices but not with Apple’s servers.

2 iPhones each with there own Apple ID, can we share the same iCloud Keychain, how?

Do we need to each use the same Apple ID in order to share the keychain?

Not quite. The account you have in Settings>iCloud (and also in Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars) is your primary account. You will need to share this primary account to sync the same keychain to both devices as iCloud keychain does not sync with secondary accounts. To implement this one of you would do the following:
Save any photo stream photos that you want to keep to your camera roll
Go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, choose Delete from My iPhone and provide the password when prompted. The account and data would only be removed from the phone, not from iCloud.
Sign back in with the other person's iCloud ID to share this as their primary account.
Turn off any data they do not wish to have on their phone from this shared account, such as the other person's contacts.
Add their original account back as a secondary account by going to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Add Account>iCloud and signing in with their orignal iCloud ID.
Turn on Contacts syncing in the secondary account to sync back their contacts to their phone. Secondary accounts, while more limited than primary accounts, can also sync Mail, Reminders, Calendars and Notes so all of this data could be synced back from the original account and turned off in the primary account if you want to keep these separate too.
Only the primary account will support iCloud bookmarks, photo stream, documents & data, iCloud backup and Find My iPhone and iCloud Keychain so you will be sharing all these services. Your backups, for example, would both have to share the same 5GB of storage in the shared primary account.
I'm not sure if you feel that all these trade-offs are worth it to share the same keychain but at the present time that's what would be required to do so.

Safari and icloud intregration, like Chrome's

Sync everything when logging into Safari, bookmark, history, passwords, etc. Also across different devices too.
Need a tab redesign.

Safari does sync bookmarks, passwords (iCloud Keychain) and currently open tabs across all Apple devices.
Any other suggestions, see http://apple.com/feedback/safari.html; posting here is not a way to reach Apple.

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Hi
I got this problem since 10.10 .
When I used iCloud keychain setup ( got SMS form apple 4 digit and type on my Mac ) still this message "icloud keychain couldn't be restored because there was a problem communicating with iCloud" .
any idea ?
please help Thanks .
PS. sorry for my bad English.

@hesbond
Do you have alternative devices that uses iOS 8 like on iPad/mini or iPhone? If yes, do this.
Step 1
- Sign out all your icloud accounts in any of your devices and computers
- Make 1 device (iPhone or iPad) that will lead all of icloud keychain request. Make sure your phone number is existing too.
Step 2
- I prefer iPad or iPhone (iOS 8), and sign-in using your default account
- Check if the keychain is off, then turn it on
- Once it on, configure to create new 4 digit code. Again, do not use the old. Create new code.
- Fill up the phone number and your iCloud password.
- Your device now enabled the keychain and will approve any request from other device.
Step 3
- Go to your desktop, System Preferences > iCloud > Keychain (will noticed, it is unchecked)
- Click Options and request approval, Do not "Use code".
- Once it done, Go to your device (iPad or iPhone), approve the request by filling-up the password
- Your keychain is active on your desktop.
* Do the same thing on Step 2, if you would like to have your desktop as your default request approval from all devices or leave it in your phone.
** If you change phone number, make sure to update your keychain.
Hope this help. And I figured this out just today, Dec 16, 2014 : 10am (Philippine Time)

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