Every time I use Safari on the Apple Mac system it demands my keychain password?
This is because you have changed your account password (either out of choice or at the behest of the the system) since the first time you used your Apple account. Your login password and Keychain password are now out of sync so everytime Safari autofill is used (form/password/field auto-completion on web based forms) it needs Keychain access to get the information required to fill in the web form. The same behaviour can be observed with other applications (eg Apple Mail) under the same circumstances. You can have a differing login and Keychain password for added security (you then retain control over stored passwords used for email access, web logins, etc, plus can see what applications demand these passwords and when) or you can synchronise the passwords for convenience (sacrificing some security). Think of the Keychain as a wallet containing commonly used passwords (eg for email access, logins to particular websites, etc) and personal information you might use to fill in forms on the
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