Chuck Smith had something work the way he might want it, but was sure it wasn’t supposed to work that way. After news broke of the Yahoo account hacking, he changed his password on his Mac. But when he went to his iPhone and iPad mini, he found they’d already updated account information.
However, he made the change in his macOS Firefox browser—not in Safari and not via the Internet Accounts system preference pane.
So how did my iOS devices quickly know that my Yahoo account password had been changed? The only thing I can figure is some new behind-the-scenes cooperation between Yahoo and Apple, and that makes me wonder if Apple is also coordinating in like manner with other email providers, such as Gmail.
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