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Android makes me (almost) hate using a password manager – Google needs to fix it

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Android makes me (almost) hate using a password manager – Google needs to fix it

Android has had an autofill feature for password managers for years now, but it's broken and needs to be fixed.

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  • Yeah, it's really a mystery to me how this can be so inconsistent across providers. With one app I have to click a separate button/dropdown-thingy and another fills the username and password in directly.

    • And on top of that Google's own password manager which I had deactivated managed to weasel itself into the foreground on my kid's phone. It was a pain to deactivate it again.

      • Never had that happen actually

        • No idea how it happened. I think when my wife created an account for something on there it asked to save it. And since then it intercepted every password request.

          • Which app do you use? In my case it's KeePass2Android (for Webdav/Nextcloud support)

            • Nextcloud Passwords. It works more or less like yours. Just one of the other Nextcloud Password apps didn't. Only after I switched did I realise that it could be different.

    • For me I just have to click on the entry, if the KeePass DB is unlocked. Otherwise I click on the "KeePass2Android" entry, it opens the app, I unlock it and it either autofills or I just then finally click the entry.

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