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Native Password AutoFill Extension macOS
So one of the people in my family subscription for 1P relies heavily on iCloud Keychain. The nice piece about using the native autofill extension is entries from both show up together in-line. This happens on iOS (or if you use other password managers it secure by each provider but both are offered the same way together).
in terms of migration and allowing those who wish to use both depending on the context. It would be nice to support the native autofill extension, but further it limits exposure or need for safari extension. Should someone not want to use or can't install the extension due to work policy or just rather not use safari extensions
thanks.
1Password Version: 8.x
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: macOS 12.6
Browser:_ Safari
- 1P_Dave
Moderator
Thanks for the reply. The team would be happy to help resolve the issues that you're running into with 1Password in the browser. Do you have a support ticket open via email? Once you've responded to it please post the support ID here. It'll look something like this: [#ABC-12345-678]. I'll be able to locate your ticket, confirm that it's with the right team, and make sure you receive a reply as soon as possible. 🙂
-Dave
Unfortunately, I have had mixed experience with the browser extension on both Safari and Chrome. I have an open ticket I need follow up on with Chrome and the extension. I use it on both regularly. So I am just not willing to ask my wife to use it if I can't say it works 95%+ without issues. Those features we don't have currently have a need for.
Where as the native autofill effectively always works and works on iOS without any issues to speak of. And it is simple to use. The only one issue with autofill was because I flipped from 1Password 7 to 8 and wasn't getting autofill suggestions.
- 1P_Dave
Thanks for the reply. You wrote that your wife was considering moving exclusively to 1Password so that I wanted to know more about the exact scenario there. I appreciate the explanation.
But on macOS she doesn’t want to use browser extension. And understandable she says “why can’t I just autofill like I do iOS?”.
Has she already tried 1Password in the browser herself? It's really an amazing experience on the Mac powered by 1Password's own filling brain. And there are features available with 1Password in the browser that aren't available with AutoFill:
- Use 1Password to sign in to sites with supported providers
- Use 1Password to create and manage Masked Emails in Fastmail
- Filling and saving of addresses and identities in 1Password
- Filling and saving of credit cards in 1Password
- Convenient item search right from your browser's toolbar
- Watchtower in the browser
-Dave
Let me clarify she uses both. And we use a shared vault on 1Password. However she will use native autofill for both 1p and Keychain on iOS cause they are both inline. Basicly no overhead. But on macOS she doesn’t want to use browser extension. And understandable she says “why can’t I just autofill like I do iOS?”. I agree. And if with Sonoma shared passwords I can figure which ones I still need to move for her.
- 1P_Dave
Thanks for the reply. Can you clarify what you mean by the following:
With Sonoma password sharing abilities I could actually get it so my wife and I actually have all our stuff in 1Password.
You can share items in 1Password with another person either by moving them into a shared vault or by sending a secure share link:
My recommendation is that you and your wife migrate your items to 1Password, confirm that all of your items are inside of 1Password, and then turn off iCloud Keychain: Move your iCloud Passwords from Safari to 1Password
Once everything is in 1Password you can use a shared vault to share items with your wife.
-Dave
i am still holding hope for the native API on macOS. With Sonoma password sharing abilities I could actually get it so my wife and I actually have all our stuff in 1Password. I would be able to slowly move over over (and my wife be able to know which ones she hasn't). Than eventually we could turn off iCloud Keychain and be using 1Password 100% and would effectively be transparent to your her current workflow.
- 1P_Dave
Thank you 1P_Dave – look forward to hearing back on the AutoFill/Face ID issue. I'll follow up separately on the browser extension in that forum.
- 1P_Dave
Thank you for reporting the issue with iOS AutoFill and Face ID, I've open an internal work item so that our developers can look into this further.
And on macOS, the current implementation of passkeys in the beta extension is not promising. It's implemented without the macOS APIs and attempts to hijack the system passkey prompt instead of just integrating with it.
If you've been testing passkeys in the beta version of 1Password in the browser then the team would love to hear about your experience. You can open a new thread on the topic in our beta category: 1Password in the browser beta — 1Password Community
-Dave
ref: dev/core/core#23691
Thanks 1P_Dave – and you're right on iOS, but the iOS API integration did take a step backwards with the release of 1Password 8. Unfortunately, 1Password no longer respects the "Enable/disable Face ID for Autofill" setting in iOS Settings. Now, even if you have that set to disabled, 1Password insists on launching its extension and performing auth before filling the credentials.
And on macOS, the current implementation of passkeys in the beta extension is not promising. It's implemented without the macOS APIs and attempts to hijack the system passkey prompt instead of just integrating with it.
