macOS Sonoma Brings Apple Password Manager to Third-Party Browsers

[ojobson]

Now if only iCloud Keychain wouldn't prompt me to enter my password TWICE every time I want to see it. This has been a longstanding bug for at least a couple years now.

Not seen that. Tried a reinstall, I assume?

 

[coolfactor]

Yes. Their extensions are terrible, and that seems to be by design.

Apple doesn't make 3rd-party extensions. If an extension sucks, blame the developer for that, not Apple or Safari.

 

[coolfactor]

Now if only iCloud Keychain wouldn't prompt me to enter my password TWICE every time I want to see it. This has been a longstanding bug for at least a couple years now.

I've seen that happen in very rare occasions, often when a keychain item was imported from a previous user on the system, or some such thing. You may also notice that many items exist twice, once in the iCloud keychain and once in System keychain. Trying to view the System item will usually prompt twice.

I would suggest grabbing the details, deleting the keychain item, and then re-creating them. Of course, if the double-prompt is happening for -every- one of your stored passwords, that would be a frustrating fix.

 

[Bodhitree]

I think it is a good move, towards providing more user value by making keychain a proper password manager.

People will use Safari a lot anyway because it is the default browser for the platform, it doesn’t need the protection of lock-in.

 

[Haiku_Oezu]

Wow this is huge!

I still use Safari on Mac but I definitely look forward to not renewing my 1Password subscription

 

[hot ham water]

Can Apple actually make a password manager app that's universal and supports more than just website passwords? Please Tim

it does on iOS

 

[hot ham water]

Is there some reason Firefox can't even get a mention in a story like this? It's the only browser built by a non-profit and it's actually really good.

this. I use ff for my work every day and it's fantastic!

 

[symphony]

it does on iOS

How?

 

[LightProtector]

I tried this and I can’t get use to it. Maybe I’ll try again.

It’s definitely weird at first. It took me a while to get used to it, but I now have no urge to switch back. This is coming from someone who switches my Windows browser every month lol.

 

[_Spinn_]

Is there some reason Firefox can't even get a mention in a story like this? It's the only browser built by a non-profit and it's actually really good.

I thought that was strange as well.

 

[fold_taut]

just worried on safety. since macOS builtin password manager and Safari both belong to Apple, seems ok. But, allowing Chrome (or other browser) belonging to other giant(notoriously known for data privacy concerns) is good? I am not sure. I usually prefer to use Safari for anywhere I need to login, Chrome for normal browsing(not requiring logins). And on exceptional cases when I need to login in chrome, I don't mind doing copy paste of login credentials as I rarely do.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

It’s definitely weird at first. It took me a while to get used to it, but I now have no urge to switch back. This is coming from someone who switches my Windows browser every month lol.

I’ll give it another shot. I hope they do something with the iOS version soon.

 

[moodler]

Not sure where you got that text from but the actual description of the new extension says this:

"iCloud Passwords is a Chrome extension that allows you to use the same strong Safari passwords you create on your iPhone, iPad or Mac when signing in to websites in Chrome. iCloud Passwords also saves any new passwords you create in Chrome to your iCloud Keychain so that it is also available on your Apple devices."

I'm guessing you're looking at the old extension for Windows users which required the iCloud app to be installed on Windows.

Weird. That was literally from the extension page linked in the article when I saw it. But it seems fixed now.