Safari Will No Longer Save Passwords Without Usernames in iOS 15.4

[lordhamster]

How about the many times you take the suggested password but then you do not get the prompt to actually save it and you are left with a new account which password you don’t know? SO annoying

I started experimenting with iCloud Keychain vs 1Password and came across this issue. Heck even with 1Password & Bitwarden this issue happens often enough to where my workflow was to create a record or change a password in the password manager FIRST...then just copy/paste it into the website.

That said, I found that if safari doesn't prompt to save the password, I can usually trigger the prompt by navigating to another page on the same webpage. If say I'm on the change password page, and don't get prompted... I'll click on the "home" or "settings" button on the site, which triggers a new page load and hence the safari prompt to save the password.

 

[Superhai]

How will this work when there is literally no username for a webpage? The way I'm reading it, please correct me if I'm wrong, it will demand a username. My 'Pi-hole' login literally only requests a password when logging in.

edit: Yes, a bit of an edge case.

If it forces a username, you could always enter a dummy username. It will only populate the password field anyway.

 

[sparky1499]

Safari on Mac OS is junk.

Firefox.

 

[johnmacward]

Remember all your apple passwords are stored in settings under “passwords” and l protected by your device security.

I don’t think you understood my original post because I don’t think I really wrote it clearly anyway. My reply referred to someone who talked about a bug when Safari suggests a complex password and then forgets to save it, leaving you with an inaccessible account (unless you click on the 'Forgotten password' link and start the whole process again).

There seems to be a problem on certain websites where you go and create an account - you enter a username or an email address and in clicking the password box, Safari suggests something 'Strong' and you click submit to create your account. Maybe the site tells you to click the verification mail it sent you and in returning to the site to login properly for the first time Safari has completely forgotten the password it saved for you - the one it assured you you didn't need to remember.

Safari seems to support certain site designs or certain HTTP POST situations for password saves and not others because a large amount of sites simply don't work with it well. I notice that when you click close on the tab where you were setting up the password that it will THEN suggest to save that password as if maybe Safaris behaviour was expecting a javascript close out from the password process anyway (something that clears cookies and allows a fresh user login to test the new password, probably in an RFC somewhere) and then it commits the password to KeyChain but as most sites aren't written that well, this doesn't happen and Safari doesn't bother saving the password. So if the user happens to want to close the tab, Safari will say "Hey, you kinda used me earlier to create a password for this domain, I haven't saved it yet, do you want to"?

I'm surprised the Safari team haven't tested this a little more around the web to realise this is the case with a lot of sites.

 

[johnmacward]

Safari on Mac OS is junk.

Firefox.

It's not, it's a damn fine browser for 99% of what I do but from time to time I can find the odd compatibility thing. It's certainly not junk.

 

[pasamio]

I'm surprised the Safari team haven't tested this a little more around the web to realise this is the case with a lot of sites.

Given how frequently I’ve run into it and that it’s been an issue for years now, the only conclusion I can make is that the Safari dev team are really all Chrome users.

 

[Claudius2k]

Good improvement. Lacking is pin storage and recovery key storage. Notes will accomplish this.