On macOS Sequoia (alas, only, not iOS 18) the new Passwords.app can import passwords from a text file. I used it to move in decades of passwords from the venerable PasswordWallet. But it took some trial and error to make it work. In brief, you need a csv file with the appropriate headers and columns. I wrote up the details at the link below; the info should be useful no matter what password utility you’re coming from.
If you’re talking about actively syncing between Firefox passwords and Apple’s Passwords.app, in other words changing a password in one environment and having it sync automatically to the other environment, I don’t think there is any way to do that without third party plugins at the moment. I’ve heard rumors that Apple is working on a Firefox plugin, but I don’t know how reliable they are.
On the other hand, it is straightforward to export passwords from Firefox manually, import them into Apple’s Passwords.app on a Mac, and then have iCloud sync the passwords in your Mac and iPhone Passwords apps. You also can export manually from the Mac’s Password.app and import the resulting file into Firefox. Depending on how often you change passwords, that may be an adequate solution for keeping Firefox and your Apple passwords in sync.
If it were me, I’d transfer all the passwords from Firefox to Apple’s Passwords and then use the iCloud Passwords add-on for Firefox. I’m not a fan of password management capabilities limited to a single browser.
I agree that would be the best strategy, but the status of the linked extension is a bit murky.
The extension originally was an open-source project by a third-party developer, but Apple seems to be planning to use it as the basis of a forthcoming “official” extension. In the meantime, the original developer seems ambivalent about working on the original source code for understandable reasons.
Perhaps I’m being too much of a worrier, but until there is an official Apple release, I’d be hesitant to use the extension for something as sensitive as password synchronization. Scroll down the following github discussion for more details:
So how do you export passwords from Firefox to Apple Passwords if iCloud Passwords extension for Firefox is questionable? I discovered Apple Passwords did not import the password for my Zoom app from wherever it was hidden before Sequoia, and I have an idea. Is there still a way to import passwords from Firefox into Safari? The last time I looked at it a while back, Safari could import passwords when you were changing browser preferences, and I assume I could just convert back to Firefox afterwards.
I’m not sure I understand everything you were asking in your previous post. Which versions of Firefox and Safari are you asking about? If I recall correctly, the ability to import/export passwords via CSV files was added to Safari in Catalina, and Firefox has been able to do it for a long time.
I notice that since the original post, Apple clearly has taken over development of the iCloud Passwords extension for Firefox and has made several updates, including one last month. I withdraw my reservations about the extension. Note that the extension requires FF 128 or newer.
Sorry I wasn’t clear on this. I am now on MacOS Sequoia 15.7, with Safari on 26.0, and Firefox on 143.0.1. The system is running on a new 2024 MacMini M4 chip and 32 Gig of memory. Now that the ICloud Passwords extension is safely in the hands of Apple, would that be a better approach to transferring passwords from Firefox than going through Safari 26.0?
My primary reason for wanting to transfer the Firefox passwords is that Zoom keeps shifting me from Firefox to the Zoom app on my Mac, then asking for a password from (apparently) Passwords that it doesn’t have. I don’t know if this is just a Zoom problem or is a problem other other apps that I haven’t used with this new machine yet.
Thanks; I rarely use Safari so I didn’t realize it no longer managed Apple Passwords. I found that separate Passwords app on Sequoia, but when I searched it for Apple passwords it did not show my password for the Zoom running as an app rather than when it runs on a browser. I don’t know if that’s just a problem on Zoom (which is getting more troublesome) or whether a broader problem with other apps running directly on a Mac.
I don’t have a solution, but I have noticed syncing issues between my new Mini and iPhone since I’ve gotten it.
Previously I never had a problem between my Sierra-based laptop and the phone, but things were missing on my OCLP Mini. I had really expected everything to move over from the phone to Sequoia. But now I’m finding the phone is missing passwords too, ones that I’m sure had been there before.
Odd as it sounds, I try to keep the laptop as the most up-to-date password holder but there have been a few times I’ve needed to reset a password because nothing works.
The Passwords app on Mac, iPhone, and iPad now accepts (as of Tahoe 26.1 for sure) exported .cvs files exported as-is from all the different passwords management apps I’ve tried. Here is a link to Apple Support’s article on how to import those on an iPad running 26. Procedure is essentially the same on Mac & iPhone running 26.