Creating and Maintaining Password Safes

You can create safes with either the macOS or iOS SamuraiSafe app. You can synchronise safes with your iPhone or iPad using iCloud or manually using iTunes.

To create a safe on iOS, touch Edit, then click the text New local safe next to the green + sign (or New iCloud safe if iCloud is enabled) and enter your new safe name. After hitting Enter, you need to enter your safe password. This password is not recoverable, and neither is the information stored in the safe (without the password), so you must remember it. You can change the password at a later time, when the safe is open, by touching the and selecting Change safe password.

Next you need to set up your groups. A default set is added to a new safe. Customise these as required. Group names can be changed, and empty groups can be deleted.

You can then begin to create password entries. This is done by selecting a group, or All Groups, then touching the + sign, filling in the form, and then touching Done to save the entry.

If using iCloud on macOS, and you wish to share an iCloud password safe with iOS, it is important the password safe resides in the private SamuraiSafe iCloud container, not the Finder iCloud Drive folder. This requires using the Move to iCloud menu item on macOS. The password safe should then appear on iOS devices on the same iCloud account. On macOS it will appear under the Open iCloud menu.

To transfer a password safe using iTunes. See Transfer safe from MacOS to iOS without iCloud or iTunes.

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