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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Apple Passwords

10Judge labels

0First choices

9Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Apple Passwords was named 3 times in Password managers and 1 other category, where Bitwarden led with 49%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business22 of 24

under the label threshold

Mid-market32 of 35

under the label threshold

Enterprise37 of 41

under the label threshold

In password managers · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Apple Passwords for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Business password managers	Identity and access	0%	32 of 35	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by Bitwarden at 49%
Multi-factor authentication	Identity and access	0%	33 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 42%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Apple Passwords yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Apple Passwords across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative10 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“FIDO2 / WebAuthn (Passkeys): Available natively on most modern smartphones and computers (e.g., Apple Keychain, Windows Hello, Google Password Manager).” Gemini 3.5 Flash · MFA · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Apple Keychain, and similar mobile autofill tools are poor fits for companies because they typically lack centralized admin control” Perplexity Sonar · Password managers · negative prompt · hard negative

“consumer-grade password managers such as Chrome, Google Account storage, and Apple Keychain lack corporate-level security and visibility” Llama 4 Maverick · Password managers · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Apple Passwords, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Apple Passwords was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Password Manager10 of 100Not in the top three

LastPass9 of 100Not in the top three

Bitwarden8 of 104Not in the top three

1Password7 of 103Not in the top three

Keeper Security6 of 101Not in the top three

Dashlane6 of 100Not in the top three

Microsoft Edge Password Manager6 of 100Not in the top three

KeePass4 of 100Not in the top three

Norton Password Manager3 of 100Not in the top three

KeePassXC2 of 100Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Apple Passwords. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 7 of the 10 answers that named Apple Passwords and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com7

dashlane.com6

buralog.jp5

cloaked.com5

bitdefender.com4

decryptiondigest.com4

thehbpgroup.co.uk4

academia.edu3

bitwarden.com3

nhimg.org3

Forty-four of the forty-four domain citations in answers naming Apple Passwords came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloaked.com/post/the-top-3-worst-password-manager-breaches-and-security-issues-to-date5

dashlane.com/blog/password-managers-safe-businesses5

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity_help/comments/1jhdy7w/password_managers_which_ones_are_an_absol5

bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/password-managers-for-small-businesses-are-they-4

buralog.jp/en/password-manager-business-2-en4

decryptiondigest.com/blog/guide-finding-best-enterprise-password-managers4

thehbpgroup.co.uk/blog/best-password-managers-for-businesses4

academia.edu/150252055/Password_Manager_Breaches_and_Security_Failures_2015_20243

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Apple Passwords

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Apple Passwords; a claim can dispute any of them.

Apple Keychain 3

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at apple.news is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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