Safari 11.1 in macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and iOS 11.3 Introduces New Features and Optimizations

[Mizhou]

A step in the right direction. There is nothing I would like to see Apple do more than to overhaul Keychain into a full-featured password manager app and give 1Password a run for their money.

I couldn't agree more, but it has a long way to go, and there are lots of bugs in Keychain.

It works, there's no bugs, but it's just not consumer-friendly. Most Mac users that I know don't even know about it.

Sorry, but you're wrong about "no bugs". There are lots of them.

A most relevant point of thought to me is the unification of passwords and autofill info. I cannot understand why seemingly, passwords are to be separately saved inside the preferences of Safari while these are also in the keychain (app and file I mean). It appears that this info is synced within Safari trough iCloud, separately and independently of the keychain sync in iCloud, be that feature activated or not.

I agree about the passwords in Safari prefs. I can't understand that either. There should be only ONE password store.

To take a walk in the backyard of the topic, I also find it similarly irrelevant to have a system keychain and an login keychain within the keychain app. Double items are to be found there yet again.

The System Keychain and Login keychain are used for separate purposes. The Login keychain are for your personal passwords, while the System keychain are for system stuff. For example the Time Machine password is stored in the System keychain, because Time Machine is used to backup ALL users accounts, not just a specific user. The backup should work, no matter who is logged in to the computer.

If there are passwords stored in both System and Login, then I'd consider that as a bug.

And to finish off this train of thought: what are passwords on iOS doing in the Settings app, and why not place it parallel inside Mac OS, or the other way around...?

I agree.

Keychain has a huge bug, if you don't use Icloud it stores your safari passwords in a Local Items section, whenever you upgrade to a new OS or migrate to a new computer it erases all of those passwors and resets with a new Local Items folder.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/data-migration-local-keychain-passwords-not-appearing.1905840/

There are many more bugs in Keychain.

Let's say that I log into https://example.com
Then the password is stored twice. Once for https and once for http, for the same domain.
It has happened that only one of them got updated, so that the other one has an old password.
I think the password should only be stored ONCE per domain. If I change my password for example.com, how big is the chance that I would want separate passwords for the http and https? That should never happen.

Another bug is that I sometimes run macOS in my native language Swedish and sometimes in English, and then the password is stored also per language. So if I have logged in to example.com in English, then I get one entry for https://example.com and one for http://example.com, but the I also get a new password stored for both of these, when I run macOS in Swedish, so now I have two entries for https and two for http, for the single domain example.com. If I change my password while running in Swedish, then only two passwords for the domain gets updated, so when I switch back to English, I have the two old passwords.

Then there's the bug with multiple "iMessage Singing Key". I often get lots of them. Does iMessage really generate a new key for every message sent? I think the same key should be used to sign all of my messages, until I choose to erase the key and generate a new key, in which case it should replace the old key.

 

[lec0rsaire]

Is there a way to scrub the scroll bar on iOS yet?

I’m talking about video. iOS has had this since the beginning but the implementation on the touchbar feels more precise. A pleasure to use.

 

[jaigieese]

What I'd REALLY like to see is a fix for the problem of video incompatibility, especially with YouTube videos. Every time I open a page with an embedded YouTube video, I get the black box with the error message about not finding the items to allow display of the video. I've been copying the video URL and going to FireFox to view it, and this is a pain in the butt.

 

[BlandUsername]

What I'd REALLY like to see is a fix for the problem of video incompatibility, especially with YouTube videos. Every time I open a page with an embedded YouTube video, I get the black box with the error message about not finding the items to allow display of the video. I've been copying the video URL and going to FireFox to view it, and this is a pain in the butt.

Wonder if they fix the support for Directv now and NHL Gamecenter?

 

[tpr007]

Is it possible to migrate passwords from keychain to another app?
How about from safari into Firefox?