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Safari Will No Longer Save Passwords Without Usernames in iOS 15.4
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That was years ago. Come back to keychain dude.
It is not. Maybe read the other comments even explaining it from a technical point of view before criticizing
My mom use Safari, and she still don’t make differences between Mac emails and internet, so ask her to manage the password!
Need to think about people who understand nothing to this kind of management!
I also take care of one of my friend father and he don’t have a month where he don’t call me for password issues, between his Mac, iPhone, iPad, iCloud enter the wrong one, changed by mistake one, enter iCloud password for a website, etc.. last time I spend 12 hours to resolve all the mess!
Make password less!
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One should remember that the cause of this issue is not totally the fault of Apple or Safari, but mainly the developers of websites that consequently fail to properly adhere to coding guidelines which causes web browsers and password managers having to perform an impossible task of guessing the user name. It is very easy for software developers to avoid these issues by simply adhering to the basic guidelines that are widespread and documented everywhere all over the internet.
Most websites nowadays are built by hobbyists rather than real engineers that know what they are really doing.
Most websites nowadays are built by hobbyists rather than real engineers that know what they are really doing.
I have found it appears this way but if you check password the site you create the password on is different to where it is used. Some forums have this problem
As did I - and it was a major quality of life improvement, to borrow (and adapt) Macrumors' line.
And you trust some unknown cloud service with the keys to your kingdom? Good luck.
Glad to see Apple really improving on a much-used feature. Hope iOS 16 has a dedicated Passwords app
Edge, chrome and Firefox all have this to some extent, although they don’t really have “password generator” afaik. But still.
If anything any time a password is generated and selected it should save it to Keychain. I can usually guess what the username was, I can't ever guess the randomly generated password (I mean that's the point right?) when Safari declines to actually save it.
You do all realize this was introduced in a beta, right? As in, this feature may still change before the final release. As in, use the Feedback tool to submit feedback on this new feature. There are a number of cases where iCloud Keychain doesn't save a username where it should, making this feature really useful. On the flip side, as some have mentioned, a number of cases where a username is completely inappropriate. What I'd like to see is this same prompt, but with the ability to still save the login without the username. Based on the Twitter pic, it looks like you can't actually save the password without having a username attached to it.
I just want Keychain to save all passwords, even old ones. Shouldn't be possible to overwrite without manually deleting in Keychain Access. I've been locked out of actually important things before because of accidental overwrites.
RIP my Minecraft account. This is how I lost it. Seems like a bug cause I have no idea why this would be intended behavior, and it doesn't happen consistently.
On another note. Can web developers stop with the usename and password on separate pages nonsense please.
My true pain point is how it saves all the Workday addresses as the same. Most companies use workday for recruiting now and when you save your profile UN and PW for one, it doesn't bother seeing that the company name before workday.com is different.
That’s just it. At some point it stopped being able to capture the user name every time when I assumed it did. It has been annoying. I thought I changed a setting or something. More likely as google pushes developers into their non standard chrome browser features it breaks standard functions.
Remember all your apple passwords are stored in settings under “passwords” and l protected by your device security.