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iOS 18 Passwords App: All the New Features
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Does BitWarden allow for local vaults?
One feature I greatly miss from 1Password is ther ability to have a local vault and have devices sync without the need of internet traffic. The feature was sadly lost when they went subscription.
It’s nice but will stick with Bitwarden.The main reason is that BW allows me to generate a user name and password BEFORE signing up to a site. BW will make random user names & connects with anonymous email providers to generate email addresses for those sites that require a email address as a user name.
That's a very good point. A "real" password manager needs password history.
1. No, none at all. This is one of their main advantages. The Passkey is the private key which your device stores. The other side only has the public key. So unless you give a service more, all they need is a user identifier and the passkey. No PII necessary, especially if you use a one-time or single purpose email address.
2. Most services use them in parallel. Your old authentication method does not go away. To really secure the account, some services do allow you to remove the username and password once you've set up a passkey.
For maximum security, you would want to remove the username/password option.
But I don't trust device based passkeys. I use Strongbox to store them. That way they're in my keepass database with everything else. Theoretically it's probably fine if you can keep your backup chain going when you get new devices.
I thought about Bitwarden, but the subscription price is what makes me leery. Back in the day I was using LastPass "reasonable priced" $15 subscription, until they got bought by some scumbag company and suddenly the prices skyrocketed. Same thing could happen to Bitwarden whenever Bain capital or some other worthless private equity vulture offers them a pile of cash to kill the app.
Yes, my understanding is that the iCloud Windows app also provides the keychain/Passwords tool.
It looks to me like new passwords “notes” field can hold ALPHA NUMERICAL TEXT passport, recovery codes, etc. may not exactly autofill but that’s ok. For me, if there IS no adequate “notes” service, I would stick to my pay password service.
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I thought there was indications they were providing a migration tool from other services to Apple Passwords.
Maybe a password migration tool for iOS/iPadOS. One can already import passwords from other services as a CSV file on a Mac. I haven't seen any indication that Apple will be providing functionality for storing any other kinds of items in Apple Passwords.
I'm in this boat as well. I'm a bit underwhelmed with Apple Passwords app but it'll have to do and I refuse to pay for embedded software.
I have been working on deleting accounts and passwords I no longer need, and any that can be linked to a connected account (Apple/Google), I've been connecting so I can delete that password.
In terms of image files, software licenses, I've been using my Day One Journal App. I have the grandfathered premium account so I am allowed 10 journals without a subscription. I just put images in a journal, important document scans in another, and software keys in another journal.
I'm hoping Apple Passwords improves overtime but as of right now im pretty hesitant.
A maybe somewhat obvious workaround for these is to just manually record the info in the notes field (eg. copy paste previous passwords). Definitely not as convenient as being built-in, especially if you have to do it frequently, but it’s functional if you do want to keep it first party. And hopefully these get added eventually.
Apple Passwords is just a password manager, 1Password and others have added useful options but then should not be considered "password manager" per se. If Apple added other options then people would argue that they're breaking competition, or that they copied 1P, etc.
I ditch 1Password about 10yrs for Bitwarden same things and security as 1P but a lot cheaper.
I like the Passwords tool, it’s much better than other external tools but I’m keeping Bitwarden because in all the years I have used it, they have never been breached. They also have offered a self hosted solution for years… it’s pretty great.
It’s called Passwords for a reason, not Passwords and things.app
No not unless you host your own data.
I use Bitwarden and also Enpass. Enpass do have local vault and use wifi sync between device. So my Mac is main host Enpass app and if I update any I can use wifi sync to my iPad and my iPhone. Obviously it doesn’t happen automatically and need do it manually.