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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.
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2024
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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.
Never had that happen actually
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.
Which app do you use? In my case it's KeePass2Android (for Webdav/Nextcloud support)
Nextcloud Passwords. It works more or less like yours. Just one of the other Nextcloud Password apps didn't. Only after I switched did I realise that it could be different.
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.
As it should be. But for some inane reason it works differently for other apps.
I mean in their defense, apps really ought to have "normal" log-in screens. Providers working around that feels like a bandaid instead of a fix.
Imagine it gets fixed but only in Google Autofill and not Android auto fill
That’s one thing I do like about iOS, there’s a secrets manager API and you can use their default keychain, or a 3rd party app like bitwarden and they all interface the same.
Forget all the password managers, just make all your passwords the same thing. You can use your middle name and your phone number, maybe throw a # in there to make it super secure.
Dunno whats the issue.
I use bitwarden and it was a bit inconsistent with gboard.
Currently using Futo keyboard and I get a convenient bitwarden widget/shortcut in my keyboard quick access bar (dunno what they call it).
Just in some situations it doesnt auto-pop up and it doesnt ask if I want to save a password on Android (Version 14 - Pixel 7 Pro)
Trying Futo now, but I can't find the Bitwarden thing you mention. Any setting I have to enable?
That's the pop-up I mean:
My keyboard settings:
I have the password manager set to show as a drop-down below the password blank itself rather than in a bar above the keyboard and it seems to work pretty well
I'd like to try that. How do you get to that settings?
After checking it seems to be within the password manager I use, 1password's settings, but I think? Bitwarden has a similar setting