Why passwords still matter in the age of AI

Whether it stands for artificial intelligence or, er, Apple intelligence, AI is the hot news of the day. Which is why I think it's time to talk about [sits backwards on chair] passwords. It may have been buried in the reporting of last night's Apple event – which the inestimable Kari Paul and Nick Robins-Early covered for us from Cupertino and New York – but one of the more consequential changes coming to the company's platforms in the next year is the creation of a new Passwords app. The average user probably has never heard of 1Password or LastPass, and they may or may not be aware that the iPhone can automatically create and store passwords for them. For users like that, a new Passwords app showing up on their iPhone's Home screen this fall is going to hopefully lead them to a more secure computing future. The straight version of this is that it's a minimal change.