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more_cowbell
Occasional Contributor
3 years ago

Safari Biometrics disabled? [SOLVED]

. Why does the latest update disable biometrics in Safari? 1Password Version: Not Provided Extension Version: Not Provided OS Version: Not Provided Browser:_ Not Pro...
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1P_Ben
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3 years ago

@Customer1passCanada

Are your parents using the 1Password for Safari extension, or Apple's Password AutoFill feature with 1Password integration? The latter may be better for this use case at least until we can find a way to bring biometric unlock back to the 1Password for Safari extension. You can read more about using 1Password with Password AutoFill here:

Use 1Password to fill and save in apps and browsers on your iPhone and iPad

The change being discussed in this thread does not affect AutoFill. Personally I'm leaving both enabled and will use 1Password for Safari for filling credit cards and identities, and Password AutoFill for most everything else, for now.

@iSRS

Can you provide some details on what got less secure in Safari this week (because as others have said, it was working in the betas)?

1Password for Safari is built on Apple's relatively new Web Extension technology, where native Touch ID / Face ID APIs are not available. To work around that we built Touch ID / Face ID support for 1Password for Safari using WebAuthn. We recently discovered the changes made to WebAuthn in iOS 16 are incompatible with our security model. We have reached out to Apple to explain how we've been using WebAuthn and to engage with them on how we can bring these features back to the Safari extension.

Ben