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Android makes me (almost) hate using a password manager – Google needs to fix it(9to5google.com)

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Android has had an autofill feature for password managers for years now, but it’s broken and needs to be fixed.

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Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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Yeah, it’s really a mystery to me how this can be so inconsistent across providers. With one app I have to click a separate button/dropdown-thingy and another fills the username and password in directly.

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Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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And on top of that Google’s own password manager which I had deactivated managed to weasel itself into the foreground on my kid’s phone. It was a pain to deactivate it again.

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Lucy :3@feddit.org
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Never had that happen actually

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Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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No idea how it happened. I think when my wife created an account for something on there it asked to save it. And since then it intercepted every password request.

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Lucy :3@feddit.org
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For me I just have to click on the entry, if the KeePass DB is unlocked. Otherwise I click on the “KeePass2Android” entry, it opens the app, I unlock it and it either autofills or I just then finally click the entry.

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Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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As it should be. But for some inane reason it works differently for other apps.

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