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0 pointsfhood7y ago0 comments

Don't think they can. Keychain is supposed to be a secure storage solution, so I can't imagine they want users to be able to view that data, and it would be hard to manage it without knowing what it was.

That said, I found a post from last year saying that they would like to phase key-chain persistence out at some point, but it was fairly free of actual commitments.

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valleyer7y ago

> Keychain is supposed to be a secure storage solution, so I can't imagine they want users to be able to view that data

This seems at odds with the fact that macOS comes with a built-in app called "Keychain Access" that allows you to view the contents of the keychain (including iCloud keychain).

jeremy_wiebe7y ago

> so I can't imagine they want users to be able to view that data

Why not? They allow you to see your passwords that are stored in the keychain. And on macOS I can poke around the keychain to my heart’s content.

It would be ralatively easy to provide a way to dump an app’s (or app group’s) keychain values in Settings.app.

lalos7y ago

You can set some expiration linked back to the app that created that pair and when that app goes away that invalidates that pair, or have app related containers inside the Keychain that also get removed with the app. It is an implementation detail.

zamalek7y ago

> it would be hard to manage it without knowing what it was.

If you wanted to remove all Google data from your phone, surely it would be enough to just display the app name.

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