cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20572072
Android has had an autofill feature for password managers for years now, but it’s broken and needs to be fixed.
My experience has gotten much better in the last several years. Now across apps, Firefox and whatever it’s more often than not it autofills or brings up bitwwrden just fine. It’s becoming the minority now when I encounter issues
my issue with androids password manager feature is the main site I use it on is Firefox, but Firefoxes autofill for password manager is in a constant fight with keepass on who shows, and there’s no menu to tell it which one I want to use so I have to leave the field join the field till it shows or manually copy from the manager. It’s so obnoxious
It’s better on android than Apple. The biggest problem on Android seems to be sites not following standards in identifying their fields which breaks autofill.
On iPhone this same problem exists, but you also have to deal with iCloud sporadically taking over and messing up the workflow, adding fun new ways for it to fail.
You have to be doing something wrong I’ve used Bitwarden and keepass on iOS for a long time with no issues just disable the apple one definitely works better then on my pixel
I tried disabling iCloud Keychain and it disabled every password fill. I can try it again or look at the options again…
Autofill is total shit I agree, but I’ve been copying and pasting from my password manager for over a decade and it’s been fine. I get that autofill would be much less friction, but I really don’t mind copying and pasting.
Indeed, I don’t particularly even want it to auto fill unless I give it the OK to do so, even if that’s as simple as a PIN.
I’ve got things worked up with bitwarden to a point where I can put in a short pin to unlock it after a timeout (usually set to 15 minutes) and it will pretty well always work so long as the fields for where the user/pass go are found cleanly.
Yeah, I agree using Bitwarden in Android can be a mess, but I find it works pretty well with Firefox, now that I mention it, why do people get the Bitwarden extension if the app already works well?
I have access to an iOS device (girlfriend’s) and I see it works well and I have never heard her complaining…
