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How to use Proton Pass on your iPhone or iPad

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Using Proton Pass

Proton Pass is an end-to-end encrypted open-source(neues Fenster) password manager that lets you protect your online identity. It’s part of the Proton privacy suite that includes Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Drive, and Proton Calendar. In this guide, we explain how to use Proton Pass on your iPhone or iPad.

How to set up Proton Pass for iPhone or iPad 

Before using Proton Pass on your iPhone or iPad, you’ll need to set it up:

1. Sign up for Proton Pass. You can sign up for a standalone Proton Pass Free or Proton Pass Plus plan or get all the premium features of Proton Pass — and every other Proton service — with our Proton Unlimited plan.

2. Download(neues Fenster) and install the iOS/iPadOS app.

3 (optional). Import your data from your previous password manager. If you’ve used a password manager before, you’ll probably want to import your saved passwords to Proton Pass. To do this, you’ll need to use our browser extension. 

Learn how to import to Proton Pass

You’re now ready to start using Proton Pass. 

How to log in using Proton Pass

Once you save login details to Proton Pass, you can log in to websites manually or using autofill. 

How to log in manually

1. Visit the login page for the website or app you wish to log in to.

2. Open the Proton Pass app, select the correct login item, and tap on the Username or email address field. The username will be copied to your clipboard.

Copy your password

3. On the login page of the website or app, paste the username from your clipboard into the correct field. To do this, tap on the input field → Paste.

And paste it into the correct field

4. Repeat this process for the password. 

Note that for security reasons, your device’s clipboard will be cleared after 60 seconds. To adjust this setting, open the Proton Pass app and go to ProfileSettingsClipboard

How to log in using autofill

This guide assumes Proton Pass is set as your default autofill password manager, This can be configured when first install the Proton Pass app, or you can enable it at any time by opening the app and going to ProfileAutofill disabled Open Settings.

1. Visit the login page for the website or app you wish to log in to. 

2. Tap either the username or password fields → Passwords to open the Proton Pass app. 

Tap Passwords to log in using autofill

3. Select the login you wish to use from the list of suggested logins or search for the correct login.

Select the correct login item

4. Proton Pass will automatically return you to the login page and autofill the username and password fields.

Proton Pass items

A Proton Pass item can be a login, hide-my-email alias, credit card, secure note, or password. Items are stored in vaults. 

Learn more about vaults in Proton Pass

Login items

A login item includes your username, password, the URL of the website (or websites) the login is for, 2FA codes, and any notes you saved for that login. When you’ve finished creating an item, tap Create

Title: Tap on the field and start typing to edit it.

Username or email address: Tap on the field. To manually enter an email address or other username, simply start typing. Alternatively, Proton Pass will offer to autofill the field using your default Proton Mail email address or generate a Hide my email alias. Tap your preferred option.

Proton Pass will offer to autofill the field using your default Proton Mail email address or generate a Hide my email alias

Learn how to use an email alias in Proton Pass

Generate a Hide my email alias

Password: Tap on the field and start typing to manually enter a password, or tap on the field → Generate password to let Proton Pass create a customizable strong password for you. 

Generate a secure but memorable password

2FA secret (2FA): Proton Pass can securely generate TOTP codes for websites you have saved login details for. 

Learn how to use 2FA codes in Proton Pass

Website: Tap on the field to add or edit a URL associated with this login item.

Note: Tap on the field to add a text note to the login item.

+ Add more: To create additional custom Text, 2FA secret (TOTP), or Hidden fields, tap the + Add more button and select the type of custom field you’d like to create.

Learn more about creating custom fields in Proton Pass

Create custom fields

Credit cards

You can add your credit card details to Proton Pass for easy access whenever you purchases something online.

These details include:

  • Title of your card
  • Cardholder name
  • Card number
  • Expiration date
  • Verification number

Currently, you need to copy and paste your credit card details from Proton Pass in to online shopping portals to complete your transactions.

To edit the details of a credit card that you’ve already entered, simply select the card you want → Edit.

Other items

You can also create standalone items for aliases and notes that aren’t associated with a login item.

To edit already existing items, simply open the Proton Pass browser extension, select the item → Edit

Edit an item

How to add new items

To add an item to Proton Pass:

1. Open the Proton Pass app and tap +.

Add a new item

2. Select Login, Alias, Credit card, Note, or Password

3. Depending on which item you selected, fill in the blank fields with the appropriate information.

When creating a new account, Proton Pass can create and save a login for it. If you’d like this:

1. Tap Passwords

When creating a new account, Proton Pass can create and save a login for it.

2. Tap Create login.

Create the new login

3. Create a login as described above. Tap Create & Autofill when you’re done. 

Tap Create & Autofill when you’re done

Proton Pass will return you to the login page and autofill your details using the login or alias you just created. 

How to view an item’s history

If you have a paid Proton Pass account, you can view each item’s history. To do this:

1. Select an item to see its history, including the current version, when the last autofill was performed, when it was created, and each time it’s been modified.

See an item's history

2. To find out more information about each change, click View item history.

Click View item history for more details

3. Tap the relevant Created or Modified entry in the timeline.

Click the relevant Created or Modified entry in the timeline

4. You can now view a snapshot of the change made on the selected date. Tab between the version of this item you’re looking at and the current version to compare them. To restore the selected older version of an item (that is, to make it the current version), click Restore.

View a snapshot and restore the item if desired

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