Security settings2026-11-06

Reading the Security Check

Where the score on the home screen comes from, which problems it looks for, whether a low score matters, and what to do about weak or reused passwords.

Where to find it

The security score card sits in the middle of the app's home screen. "View details" opens the full password health check.

The check runs on your device and uploads nothing.

⚠️ It looks at passwords only — not 2FA codes, documents or payment cards.

Password health check: overall score, issue cards, strength distribution and suggestions
A results screen. Categories with nothing to report show no card — "not changed recently" is absent here because nothing in that vault is over 90 days old (screenshot shows the Chinese interface)

What it looks for

Weak passwords

Passwords that are short, guessable or easy to brute-force. Common words and plain alphanumerics get flagged.

Reused passwords

The same password across several accounts. This deserves attention before mere complexity — one breached site opens every account sharing that password.

Not changed in a long time

Passwords last changed more than 90 days ago. This is the lowest priority of the three — a strong password does not weaken by sitting still, so treat it as a nudge rather than a fault.

Strength distribution

Counts and percentages across strong / medium / weak, so you can judge the overall state rather than just the number of bad ones.

How the score works

It starts at 100 and deducts per problem:

ProblemEachCapped at
Reused passwords (per group)1040
Weak passwords530
Not changed in a long time220

Three ratings: above 71 is good, 41–70 fair, 40 and below poor.

The weightings show the priority: reuse costs the most, age the least — which matches the real risk.

Does a low score matter?

Treat it as a prompt, not an exam. Look at the individual findings rather than the number — three weak passwords on accounts you never use scores about the same as one weak password on your main email, and the real risk is nothing alike.

A sensible order

  1. Reused passwords first, especially on email, banking and payment accounts — those can be used to reset others
  2. Then weak passwords on accounts you actually use
  3. Dormant accounts with nothing important attached can wait

How to fix one

Tapping a finding shows which entries it covers. To change a password:

  1. Change it on the site or app itself (KeyMe Pass cannot change someone else's password; it only remembers it)
  2. Generate the new one with the password generator
  3. Update the entry in KeyMe Pass

With autofill enabled, a site's change-password page will usually offer to save the new one for you, so step 3 takes care of itself.

Document expiry reminders

The home screen's alerts may also show an expired ID document. That comes from document entries and is separate from the password health check — it does not affect the score.

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