Apple Passwords: Can passwords be transferred when removing a group member?

Apple Passwords: Can passwords be transferred when removing a group member?

We use shared Passwords groups for team credentials. We recently discovered that when a member is removed from the group, passwords they originally contributed are also removed.

There doesn't seem to be a warning or an option to transfer those passwords to the group or another member first.

This seems particularly risky during employee offboarding, where shared credentials could disappear without anyone realizing it.

Would it make sense for Apple Passwords to allow a member's contributed passwords to be transferred to the group or another member before they are removed?

Has anyone else run into this?

Posted on Sep 30, 2026 9:00 PM

1 reply

MrHoffman

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Sep 30, 2026 9:21 PM in response to businessownerapple

Most organizations aren’t big on sharing credentials generally as that tends to lack accountability, and as those same passwords don’t tend to change, and places are drifting away from plaintext passwords, whether to tokens or passkeys or certificates. Single sign-on with a directory service is a common choice, and potentially something such as Zero Trust / ZTA.

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