I use Secure Notes in Keychain quite a bit and have amassed a collection over the years. Under Sequoia, I no longer seem to be able to create a new secure note. Choosing the "Create a new keychain item" icon brings up the "New Password" dialogue regardless of whether passwords or notes are being displayed.
Is this a bug?
Mac mini, macOS 15.0
This is and will be a very troublesome situation for me!!!!
hundreds and hundreds of secure notes and passwords on multiple mac since introduction of the keychain access on mac os x!!! with oldest mac now with high sierra and newest just upgraded to sequoia and realizing this hectic issue to come soon!!!
why why why!!!??? Apple…
Hi Chris. My solution was to use Disk Utility to create an encrypted (i.e. password protected) sparsebundle virtual disk. Things like passport photos go in there and I deliberately chose not to save the password in keychain, so that I have to enter it each time I want to look at the secure files, and no one can peek even I leave my machine logged in and unattended.
To create one, run:
Disk Utility -> File -> New image -> Blank image
with these options:
Size: 100MB (doesn't matter as it will auto-grow)
Format: APFS
Encryption: AES256
Password: your choice
Partitions: Single partition - GUID Partition Map
Image Format: sparse bundle disk image
This last one is important!
@Barney: Thanks!
do you mean a locked note in the Notes.app? Is that strongly encrypted too?
I do have FileVault on of course, but locked notes are shared on all devices, I am wondering whether the level of encryption is as good as keychain access...
(Never mind.)
So is the proposed solution to use the notes app and secure the notes instead of using keychain?
Sure but in order to save it you must have something in the user and password fields so not quite the same
I agree, keychain has some many more useful facilities than passwords. The latter is very limited in usage!
Sequoia: Keychain Access cannot create a new secure note
