More autofill on Android - Tiles, inline, accessibility, draw over
Show login credential suggestions in login fields instead of just "Get from Proton Pass". I don't want to be redirected to the app every time.
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Sophia commented
I'm just 'finally' evaluating Proton Pass (currently using Bitwarden). This is really too bad, but I do not want to use or recommend this on Android without these features.
Right now with both Bitwarden and Proton Pass installed on Android, and Proton Pass set as the default auto-fill, bitwarden still can autofill EVERYTHING, proton catches things not quite 50% of the time. AND it's set to default, so just crazy.
I really have enjoyed it on the desktop, and it's 'good enough' on the browser extension to recommend over bitwarden in my opinion (missing a few things, like being able to autofill from the extension, instead of only through the password/username icon on the page, but has enough things it does better then bitwarden, that it more then makes up for it). But on android, it's just not that usable yet.
I've never liked the name bitwarden, just yucky in my opinion, and their tech support is rude and unhelpful in my experience. Proton support is incredible, and the name Proton Pass, is great, and it's so beautiful and usable as a browser extension. On the desktop experience, it's my favorite. I'm going to miss it, but bitwarden unfortunately is still more usable.
I wish this wasn't the case, but that seems unfortunately the 'Proton way' (which is the slow, slow, slow, s..l..o..w.. BUT SECURE way). So I guess we keep waiting... I feel this way with Proton Mail, Calendar, and Drive. I'm getting ready to test Wallet, and I haven't used Proton VPN yet.
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John Shepard commented
How this issue has been open for over a year is beyond me. ProtonPass is so far behind other managers in terms of what it can autofill on Android, and it literally means that any feature developed is unlikely to work for the vast majority of Android usecases.
Please, I want to use ProtonPass above other options, and I want to recommend it to everyone I know, but without this being solved, it just won't work for most things, and thus becomes useless... Please fix it... -
George commented
Would be good to have this on android as it doesn't work too well otherwise.
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Anonymous commented
Bitwarden, due to the other options like using the accessibility feature, had a better rate of being able to autofill. Please consider offering an more expanded autofill feature set like some of the other password managers.
Just experienced this with an app and found having to manually copy tedious
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Shawn commented
This is an absolutely critical issue that needs to be addressed! Other password managers are able to do this just fine.
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James Flynn commented
Yes, some apps seem to have spotty support for the built-in Android Autofill service, leading to misses in how one can get login info filled in. The "best" experiences in other Password Managers seem to rely on a combination of methods, so that something is likely to work for a user.
Some of the various "flavors" of miss can be:
1) Neither field is recognized, so one must launch Proton Pass manually to copy/paste from
2) The username/email field does not prompt autofill, but using autofill from the password field will fill in both spaces
3) The username/email field is not recognized at all (for filling or launching autofill)
- one must fill in the username/email via copy/paste, but need an open instance of Proton Pass to switch to/from, or must fill in by hand.
4) Some applications will simply fail to autofill from the autofill service after selecting login, but the autofill service dismisses because the field is supposedly "filled" (seems more android dependent, as this is more prevalent in recent versions, e.g. 13+, and not just for Proton Pass).For the last two cases, I think that keeping Proton Pass in memory/"recent apps" would allow the user to work around this by switching back to the instance to fall back to copy/paste.
For the 2nd/3rd cases (and somewhat the first), other password managers make use of Accessibility services to create additional prompts if a built-in screen reader sees username/email/password fields. This can make up for poor implementations of the autofill service in applications.
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Jamie B commented
I really but really really miss my auto fill tile in android, this is available in bitwarden and really is a must have
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Shawn commented
Yes! This is MUST HAVE feature! LastPass has this exact feature.
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tfry commented
It will be very convenient if proton pass can detect when we are creating a new password in an app or a website on android or iOS and showing us a window to configure the password or email and other details for it and save it, I am coming from dashlane and I am missing this feature the most
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Boxie commented
Yes, please add this! Some new general Android methods that makes Proton Pass work reliably on many browsers.
I have Bitwarden installed also and it works reliably. Sometimes when I have left Bitwarden's methods on in the background but switched Proton to be the default manager, Proton Pass has appeared over the keyboard so it sometimes works even now. Some days it just completely disappears though.
Now Proton Pass is unusable for me. Only way to use it on phone is by copying passwords, but Samsung has clipboard history you can't disable, so the passwords would go there in plain text and stay there unless manually cleaned each time. Huge security risk, so sticking with Bitwarden until Proton Pass works.
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Roberto commented
THIS IS VITAL FOR ME.
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Protonuser commented
I tried logging in to telegram and it didn't detect the password field that appears in telegram login.
Please improve autofill. Draw over apps -
DanHolli commented
not sure what you mean by tiles or inline, but it utilizes the proper android password manager API but it is definitely lacking draw on top functionality and redirecting to the app can break some app's login pages
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[Deleted User] commented
After making the switch from Bitwarden it is kinda frustrating that some of these important Android integrations are missing.
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Kanenas commented
Agree with the comments below. Bitwarden shows how this is done properly. Just replicate the functionalities it provides for a truly seamless autofill process.
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Luke commented
Bitwarden does it best. It has all the possible implementations to workaround android bugs, like Autofill service when supported with inline autofill, accessibility service to draw over apps that don't support the autofill function + quick tile force fill. Plus when logging in to an app that wasn't linked before I can link an app to the login info so next time it will be autofilled. Please implement all of this.
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Jeremy Reis commented
The autofill function works better but it still has a long way to go, it works about 50% of the time... Bitwarden works 95% of the time... Come on Protonpass!!
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Vic van Cooten commented
My experience with auto fill on Android has been less than satisfactory. It usually works only partially or not at all. Until the auto fill is perfect it would be great to add a System tile to force an auto login event. Bitwarden has this and it works great as a backup for when the regular flow fails.
Tiles
Inline autofill
Accessibility feature
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[Deleted User] commented
This has been done already a few months ago, so it should be marked that way
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celibacy040 commented
On Firefox Android, when returning to an existing tab of a login page after some time, the autofill service on the keyboard does not show up when clicking on username/password field, but it does once I reload the page.