How to share keychain data between iOS applications

After some (a lot of) digging throughout the web, I found the answer. The access Group that you use when constructing your KeychainItemWrapper class must ALSO be specified in each of your application's Entitlements.plist file in the "keychain-access-groups" section.

It seems almost obvious now that I see "keychain-access-groups". However, I had no idea to even look there. Hope this helps others.


Actually it's not hard to do. Please follow the steps.

App1:

  1. Open your App's target Capabilities and enable KeyChain Sharing.
  2. Add a identifier. (eg : com.example.sharedaccess)
  3. Add "UICKeyChainStore" to your project.
  4. Be sure you have a team id added to your App1 project.
  5. Add Security.framework to your App1 project.
  6. And add these codes to somewhere you need.

    [UICKeyChainStore setString:@"someValue" forKey:@"someKey" service:@"someService"];
    

App2:

  • Open your App's target Capabilities and enable KeyChain Sharing.
  • Add a identifier. (eg : com.example.sharedaccess)
  • Add "UICKeyChainStore" to your project.
  • Be sure you have a team id added to your App2 project.
  • Add Security.framework to your App2 project.
  • And add these codes to somewhere you need.

    NSString *string = [UICKeyChainStore stringForKey:@"someKey" service:@"someService"];
    
  • Your TeamIDs should be same for both projects.

  • I tried these steps on a real iPhone device.
  • I also tried these steps with Automatic and iOs Development provisioning profile.
  • My apps' bundle identifiers were like that : com.example.app1, com.example.app2.