And Apple Watch support.
Being able to pull up favorited credentials and TOTP codes on my Watch is super convenient. If that isn't supported in Apple's native Passwords app on watchOS, it's a deal breaker for me.
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Apple Introduces Standalone 'Passwords' App
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Being able to pull up favorited credentials and TOTP codes on my Watch is super convenient. If that isn't supported in Apple's native Passwords app on watchOS, it's a deal breaker for me.
iCloud password is available on Windows, it has been working fine. Just not a standalone app.
Still no confirmation if this will allow you to store: credit cards, software licenses, important photos (drivers license, passport, etc)? Ideally it's a catch-all repository for secure documents
It's not a real 1Password (or other password manager) killer, if it does not have a useful extension for Chrom and Firefox.
My biggest question, will it work on Firefox or other browsers than Safari?
Agreed. Without Chrome and Firefox extensions, this would be completely dead on arrival for me.
Would love to cancel 1password, but if this doesnt have an autofill browser extension for chrome/firefox (safari doesnt count) then it's completely DOA.
There also needs to be an initial setup menu thats lets you import data from 1pass/lastpass/etc
There also needs to be an initial setup menu thats lets you import data from 1pass/lastpass/etc
Long overdue. I rarely use Firefox and chrome. I prefer safari and brave.
Good to know, is there browser/plugin support since Safari isn't on Windows anymore? If they can add it to Android I'd definitely want to check it out.
Why do people talk like this?
1Password is a phenomenal piece of software and a good company
Been using NordPass for several years (LastPass before that) and find it cumbersome, especially for generating passwords. But the autofill feature is nice. Hope Apple Password is sleeker and free is good.
Hopefully this is a wake-up call to the 1Password team. I think they'll still have the most "complete" and feature-rich password manager but the stability and reliability since 1Password 8's release has been terrible compared to past versions and isn't getting better at any acceptable rate of speed. They'll have the summer to work on issues but as long as the Safari to app integration remains atrocious, I will be moving to Apple Passwords when it's generally available.
If you want a sense of how the 1Password camp is feeling, there was a post on their official subreddit during the Keynote asking what people thought and if they'd switch away from 1Password that was gaining traction until it was removed by the moderators (who are, conveniently, employees of 1Password).
If you want a sense of how the 1Password camp is feeling, there was a post on their official subreddit during the Keynote asking what people thought and if they'd switch away from 1Password that was gaining traction until it was removed by the moderators (who are, conveniently, employees of 1Password).
But it won't be as feature rich as 1Password I think. Adding attachments is an important feature for me. But very happy to see Apple releasing this.
I use MacPass (KeePass compatible) for that type of stuff.
KeePass is an open source PW manager, and a number of other applications use the encrypted kdb/kdbx file format for their own forks/versions. It's nice because I can find compatible clients on pretty much any OS or device, and have a couple different files that I can share with relevant people (eg. work crew shares a kdb file with some common credentials on a shared dropbox, share a "family" file with the family, keep my personal keepass db local, etc.)
I've used it beyond passwords, just storing license keys in the PW field, or even in some of the other fields (like notes) that can be saved with each entry.
An interesting thing is that 1Password was given to like every Apple employee by Agilebits and Apple used it, they even promoted it as app of the day and it won yearly awards from the App Store.
Now this happens where it's a visual clone of 1Password. It's interesting being an Apple partner if you do something too well sometimes they just come for you straight in the revenues.
Now this happens where it's a visual clone of 1Password. It's interesting being an Apple partner if you do something too well sometimes they just come for you straight in the revenues.
Nothing about chrome (and Firefox) extension support, which is all that matters.
Free BitWarden is still better. Way more cross platform and cross browser. For those all in, way in, in too deep....Apple, this is for you.
Indeed you could not pay me to use Safari on any platform. I guess I do when I use Chrome on my iPhone, until the EU hammers that next.
I tried BitWarden a couple years ago when I was looking for a new password manager, and did not understand the love affair the tech community has for it at all, aside from the price.
Maybe it has improved, but it looked and felt like an archaic piece of software and the browser integration was almost nonexistent.