As important as being secure with your sensitive information online is, few among us have perfect password hygiene, and Apple apparently knows it. With a new Apple Intelligence feature announced at WWDC 2026, Apple’s AI can now automatically change passwords that could get you hacked.
The tool, which builds on a previous security feature that can identify passwords that are either weak or compromised, can apparently use Apple’s AI to navigate through websites and sign in, allowing Apple Intelligence to “agentically take action on a user’s behalf,” according to Apple. It then saves the new password in the Passwords app so you don’t have to worry about forgetting it as soon as it’s changed.
Previously, to fix a compromised password, you’d have to go into each account and manually change your credentials, which is probably not most people’s idea of a barrel of laughs, especially if you have two-factor authentication on, which you should.
It’s not much on the surface, but it’s among the more useful Apple Intelligence features I’ve seen out there, especially considering it can be the difference between you getting hacked or not. It’s also a good example of how Apple, which has long been known for its superior security over Android, can utilize “agentic” AI in a way that feels uniquely its own.
While Google has built-in tools like Google Password Manager that can detect weak or compromised passwords, Gemini can’t currently change those passwords for you, making the tool fairly novel in terms of how agentic AI is being used. The feature also feels like an outlier in terms of agentic AI since, normally, putting the words “passwords” and “AI agent” in the same sentence is usually a one-way ticket to setting off every security alarm bell imaginable. OpenClaw, for example, has been characterized as a security nightmare on more than one occasion.
I don’t think automatically changing your password is going to drastically shift anyone’s opinion of AI, but as long as it’s useful, it’s hard to argue with. Remember the days before iOS automatically plugged in confirmation codes for you? Bad, right? That’s the type of utility we’re yearning for.
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