• Read Me First
• Introduction
• Quick Start
• Sync Photos and Videos across Devices
• Sync a Photo Library across Devices
• Send Photos and Videos to Others
• Broadcast and Share Photo Albums
• Choose a File Sharing Method
• Use OS X File Sharing
• Sync Files and Folders across Devices
• Sync Folders with Others
• Broadcast Download Links
• Send Files to Others
• Share Documents with Others
• Send Contacts to Others
• Sync Contacts across Devices
• Sync Contacts with Others
• Broadcast Calendar Events
• Sync Calendars and Reminders across Devices
• Sync Calendars and Reminders with Others
• Sync Email across Devices
• Share Optical Discs with Other Macs
• Share Printers on Your Local Network
• Share Your iOS Device’s Internet Connection
• Share Your Mac’s Internet Connection
• Broadcast and Share Your Mac’s Screen
• Broadcast Your iOS Device’s Screen
• Broadcast Audio from Your iOS Device
• Share iPhone Calls and Texts across Devices
• Broadcast Browser Tabs to Other Devices
• Sync Browser Bookmarks across Devices
• Send Web Links to Others
• Sync Passwords across Devices
• Sync Passwords with Others
• Use iCloud Family Sharing
• Broadcast and Share Games and Game Stats
• Send Radio Stations to Others
• Send iTunes Playlists to Others
• Broadcast an iTunes Library in Your Home
• Share Tasks among Devices with Handoff
• About This Book
• About the Author
• About the Publisher
• Copyright and Fine Print

Sync Passwords with Others

In most cases, you want to keep your passwords private—the whole point is to keep other people from being able to access your accounts and data. However, in certain situations, more than one person may need access to the same password-protected account. For example:

• Several coworkers share responsibilities for checking a customer-support email account or maintaining a Twitter account.
• A married couple may need to independently access a joint bank account online.
• You may ask a trusted friend to post updates to your Facebook account when you’re in the hospital.

So, although you don’t want to share all your passwords with someone else, you may want to share a few of them with select people. And when I say “share” here I mean sync, because if you should change the password, the others who use it need to have the new one.

iCloud Keychain currently offers no way to sync passwords between users, but 1Password and several other third-party password managers do.

1Password

1Password stores passwords in an encrypted file called a vault. You can create multiple vaults, and use one of them just for passwords you need to share with a trusted person. You can both sync the shared vault to the same central Dropbox folder, so that any changes to the shared vault are available on each person’s Mac or PC:

1. In 1Password for Mac, choose 1Password > New Vault, fill in a name, password (twice), and hint, and click Create New Vault.
2. Set up the vault to sync via Dropbox (see Sync with 1Password), storing it in a Dropbox folder you shared with the other person (see Sync Folders with Others).
3. The other person must double-click the shared vault in Dropbox, enter the vault’s password ①, and click Create New Vault.

Switch vaults using the pop-up menu at the top of the 1Password window.

LastPass

Another excellent third-party password manager, LastPass, doesn’t sync passwords as such. Instead, it stores them all securely in the cloud, and transfers only the data you need at any moment.

If you subscribe to the paid, premium version of LastPass, you get a Sharing feature. With this feature enabled, you click a Share icon next to any password, enter the email address for another person with a LastPass account, and click Share. The other person accepts the invitation, and that one password is then available to both of you.

Unlike 1Password’s shared vaults, however, sharing with LastPass is strictly one password at a time.

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