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snowy's avatar
snowy
Super Contributor
4 years ago

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 h...
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chopin1012
Occasional Contributor
5 months ago

I've messaged 1Password support several times over the past 2+ years requesting 1Password to support MacOS native autofill as it does in iOS. Frustratingly, support just glosses over the requests for native autofill support and never actually gives a definitive answer on whether we can expect the requested feature or not.

I would really like to have the request for native MacOS autofill addressed. There are several of us who very much want it, and some, myself included, who, at this point, are debating continued support of the app based on future implementation of this. It has, after all, been available to developers for 3+ years.

Many people struggle with the competing native Mac Passkey pop-up, and the longterm 1Password Safari issue likely wouldn't have been an issue while waiting for Apple's fix had 1Password Mac supported native autofill. Even with the supposed fix, if I connect 1Password Mac to 1Password Safari, I still can't unlock 1Password form a username or password field, and, if already unlocked, I can't get the drop down to offer me any autofill suggestions.

I recently switched everything over to Apple Passwords, not because I prefer it to 1Password--I don't. However, the stability and speed of autofill is, in my experience, far better than 1Password. There's never a glitch with Passkeys, and Passwords never fails to surface logins and passwords. I understand 1Password has chosen universal autofill, but there is a decent number of users who want and have been asking for 1Password to support MacOS native autofill. Maybe give users the option if the two can't coexist.  

 

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Dinesy
New Contributor
2 months ago

https://1password.com/blog/autofill-on-big-sur is from WWDC 2020... It looks like there was a working demo of native Autofill back then. I get that the accessibility API mostly works most of the time, but one of 1password's biggest strengths used to be its tight integration with macOS, so to see this go unaddressed for more than half a decade is disappointing.

The reason I found my way to this thread is because I just discovered that the accessibility API doesn't seem to work with iPadOS apps running on macOS. Also cmd-\ often just stops working altogether.

  • 1P_Dave's avatar
    1P_Dave
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    2 months ago

    Dinesy​ 

    Welcome to the community! Our Group Product Manager Travis recently shed some light on our explorations with macOS AutoFill in our Reddit AMA:

    We've been taking a heavier look at MacOS autofill in the second half of this year to see if the limitations we encountered previously have been alleviated or if they're still present. Although not perfect and not where we ideally want it to be, integrating with native MacOS autofill is looking promising. If we're able to have our concerns addressed with the API to ensure 1Password customers can seamlessly use MacOS autofill without fear of falling through the cracks, I don't see a reason to not integrate in the near future.

    1Password 8 is more tightly integrated with macOS than any previous version with features like Universal Autofill and 1Password for Safari (a modern web extension using the latest Safari extension technology). The team will continue to explore ways to deepen that integration with features like macOS AutoFill.

    -Dave

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