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Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma Silently Enables iCloud Keychain


Feedback Assistant Boycott This is not a new issue. It was discovered last year, and it also affects updating from iOS 16 to iOS 17.

If you've never enabled iCloud Keychain and recently upgraded to iOS 17, chances are good that your passwords are now stored on #Apple servers. My main development machine, a 2021 M1 MacBook Pro, is still on Ventura, but I plan to update it soon to Sonoma in preparation for Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June, because the new WWDC beta version of Xcode will undoubtedly require the latest version of macOS, as usual. Nowadays, Xcode is the only thing that drags me kicking and screaming to the latest and worst version of macOS.

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