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Kentzo
December 21, 2022
Question

Extension-less autofill in Safari in macOS Ventura

  • December 21, 2022
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On iOS I'm using 1P in Safari without the extension: it works well for me via Authentication Services (Autofill).

Does 1P8 on macOS integrates with the corresponding system API as well and is able to fill usernames and passwords without the extension?


1Password Version: Not Provided
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: macOS 13.1
Browser:_ Safari

11 replies

andrew_l_1P
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
December 22, 2022

Hi @Kentzo,

It is indeed possible to use the 1Password 8 Mac app without the extension. Quick Access and Universal Autofill are both features of the app that can help you quickly locate and fill your data, I'll include some links in case you're interested in learning more about them:

That said, the latest suite of browser extensions do integrate with the desktop app more closely than they have in the past and I would encourage you to give them a try: Get 1Password in your Browser

Let me know if you give any of them a try or if you have any questions. 🙂

Kentzo
KentzoAuthor
December 23, 2022

I see that 1P8's "Universal Autofill" is unrelated to Apple's Autofill and uses Accessibility API (which gives unconstrained access to all UI and forbidden in my environment) and not the [Authentication Services API] which is Apple's Autofill.(https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationservices/ascredentialproviderviewcontroller) (as on iOS).

Are there plans to add support for that?

FWIW although I do not use the apps below I came across similar requests while researching this problem:

KeePass: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/6265#issuecomment-1193124325
MacPass: https://github.com/MacPass/MacPass/issues/1178#issue-972672925

January 17, 2023

@Kentzo I'd also like to know when support for the macOS AutoFill API is finally added to 1Password.

Dashlane, for example, already supports this feature of macOS:
https://support.dashlane.com/hc/en-us/articles/5288328982802-Turn-on-the-alternative-Autofill-solution-in-Safari

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
January 17, 2023

@Kentzo and @TOMillr

I'm not personally aware of any plans to support the macOS AutoFill feature, especially since we already have 1Password in the browser and now Universal Autofill available on the Mac. Supporting a third filling method might make things too confusing for users but that's only my opinion. Using Universal Autofill would be the best option.

That being said, I hear your feedback about why you can't use Universal Autofill in your environment and I've passed along your request to the product team to consider for the future. 🙂

-Dave

ref: PB-30142465

January 23, 2023

I'd like to give my +1 for password autofill extension on Ventura. It should be the same functionality as on iOS, so password managers should integrate with that for best OS support. 1Password was so quick to jump onto it when it got added to iOS, so it's a bit sad to see that the macos variant doesn't have any plans for support yet.

Just a random thought, but would sideload the iOS app on macOS add support for this? If the extension API is identical (it might, it might not be, I'm not sure), the iOS app may already integrate with it

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
January 23, 2023

@ordinarybeef

Thank you for the feedback, I've passed it along to the product team.

Just a random thought, but would sideload the iOS app on macOS add support for this? If the extension API is identical (it might, it might not be, I'm not sure), the iOS app may already integrate with it

We don't support running the iOS version of 1Password on macOS. Using 1Password 8 for Mac with Universal Autofill will give you the best experience on the Mac since it was designed for the Mac. 🙂

-Dave

ref: PB-30425588

April 1, 2023

Either I'm confused about what 1Password is saying here, or 1Password is confused about the ask.

The integration on my phone and on my iPad is what I want on my Mac:

Surely 1Password doesn't think that hacking around with Accessibility settings is better than that, right? If that's your go-forward approach, I'm re-evaluating password managers when my current subscription expires.

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
April 3, 2023

@bhanafee

We don't currently support the native AutoFill feature, you can fill logins using either 1Password in the browser or Universal Autofill:

That being said, I've passed along your feedback to the team. 🙂

-Dave

ref: PB-32141212

April 3, 2023

Thank you for passing along the feedback. It's particularly aggravating because I have some Passkey usage (login.gov) so can't easily turn off native AutoFill. The result is dueling auto-"help" on many sites.

steph_giles
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
April 5, 2023

You're welcome @bhanafee, we appreciate you taking the time to provide feedback.