Save suggested passwords
Pass often suggests passwords but when I choose the password, it isn't saved anywhere or pass does not prompt to save it and create a login.
So essentially you end up creating an account with a password you will have to immediately reset.
You can visit the settings menu to enable 'prompt for auto-save when generating passwords' and soon this will be enabled by default.
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Roy Cornatzer commented
The User Voice email I got is listed as Proton Mail but the link takes me to this thread. Nothing here says what platform this is related to- Mac/ios/android/etc. I do not see this feature in the ios app. Where’s the screen shots?
Update, found the feature in Firefox for Mac Desktop version. -
celibacy040 commented
Don't see this option in the latest version available 1.22.1
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SF commented
I'm still waiting for a Safari extension before I can migrate away from 1Password, I didn't even realize that Proton Pass didn't do this. That's insane. This is quite literally one of the single most important functions of a password manager. Forcing the user to jump through hoops to save a new login in a serious flaw. This is why people use the same password for everything!
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Madman commented
"You can visit the settings menu to view recently generated passwords. On the web app, the password is also copied to the clipboard"
Or you know, Protonpass can just save the suggested password for me? If I want to do things manually, I might as well use the web app instead of the addon. -
Flo commented
Yes, passwords are copied to clipboard and (sometimes - not always, maybe another bug?) stored in the "recently generated passwords" list for 24 hours.
Effectively, this moves the responsibility to save the generated password to the user and renders the day-to-day usage of Proton Pass inconvenient and unreliable. It is a workardound at best, but basically a behaviour that makes me avoid Proton Pass for all critical stuff.
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Anonymous commented
That answer is not entirely correct. You actually have to visit the Home | Advanced | Generated Passwords menu (not Home | Settings). Please fix this issue. Imagine Grandma trying to use this or someone technically challenged. It will frustrate the heck out of them and they will abandon it.
Other than this issue, Proton Pass works extremely well!!!
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celibacy040 commented
Recent passwords screen is a workaround.
Proton pass should ask to create/update credentials entry after submitting a suggested password. -
Lundy commented
Having a hidden menu with recent passwords is not a working solution to this problem.
Every other password manager asks to create a new login after suggesting a password.
The clipboard is not a safe place for new passwords either, that's at best a temporary workaround. -
nepsat commented
So now that I switched to ProtonPass and deleted my LastPass account, I realize that ProtonPass is just not working. I should have tested first, but how could I imagine that it wouldn't work at all? And I wonder how Proton programmers can protect my mail and my connections if they don't even know how to save passwords!
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Douglas Brown commented
Creating a password for a new login should save that password. Hit the wrong button out first to go back to Proton Pass and... Whoops! Now I have to change the password and I don't have the one I just created
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zak morgan commented
The amount of password resets I've had to do because of this is not fun!
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Sean commented
Unbelievable that one of the most important parts of a password manager is missing/frequently missed. I should never have to use the clipboard with a password manager, let alone when making a new login.
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Chief commented
This just bit me yesterday! Clicking on a password to paste it into a page *needs* to *always* save it somewhere I can get it back.
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Cosme Benito commented
I love ProtonPass but this is really inconvenient. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I always have to make sure I copy/paste the password elsewhere, just in case...
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Jackson commented
x 1,000,000!!! This is insanely annoying! Marc's workaround gets the job done but IT TAKES 10 CLICKS + 1 COPY/PASTE to complete the workaround each time. I forgot to include the additional clicks required if it's for a brand new login. You will have to manually create the login and fill in the Username field because Proton Pass almost never offers to create a new login on its own.
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Lundy commented
I can't believe that this huge bug still exists! This is a cornerstone of any password manager.
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Hendrik commented
This is really annoying :D Created a new password and can not even copy it from the pw field.
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[Deleted User] commented
It should offer to save the credentials after you press the secure password autofill, this is the functionality that is offered on 1Password and makes more sense to me.
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Gn Gn commented
This should have (number of total users X 3) votes. I guess it might be dependent on the platform, I'm on Desktop. It literally never asks to save a new password.
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Irma commented
This should have more votes! It's insane and really bad user experience that this needs to be created manually. Thanks to Marc for the tip about where to find auto-generated passwords! It gets even worse if you use an email alias, you also need to find that somewhere and copy it manually into the new login entry.