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I am not happy about this. I like having the standalone Lockwise app on my Android phone as a password manager. When the app is discontinued, will I still be a

I am not happy about this. I like having the standalone Lockwise app on my Android phone as a password manager. When the app is discontinued, will I still be able to use autofill in other apps? And what about the apps where autofill doesn't work? Having to open my browser for every password I need to copy on my phone just seems clunky and stupid. I'm so fucking sick of Mozilla breaking their UX flows for every damn thing. Just keep the app!

rwky 5y ago
>When the app is discontinued, will I still be able to use autofill in other apps? Thankfully it appears it will work https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29322019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29322019
graton 5y ago
> When the app is discontinued, will I still be able to use autofill in other apps? Yes on Android, I have no knowledge of iOS. Just go into the Settings -> Logins and Passwords -> Autofill in other apps.
kbenson 5y ago
> Also, having to open my browser for every password I need to copy on my phone just seems clunky and stupid. You don't (at least for Android), the functionality of Lockwise appears to have been replicated in Firefox. There's a toggle in the logins and passwords settings section of Firefox to allow it to fill in passwords for other apps. Apparently they're rolling it out in iOS next month, according to the article (as jdlshore pointed out).
- kevincox 5y ago
  Fantastic! I never liked having another app for passwords so I removed lockwise as soon as Firefox (the new one) got password support but was never aware that it grew autofill support!
  - kelnos 5y ago
    I'm not sure how great this is, though, from a security perspective. When I select Firefox as my autofill provider on Android, I get this message: > "Make sure you trust this app" > "Firefox Beta uses what's on your screen to determine what can be autofilled." So, unless I'm mistaken, it sounds like the OS gives the selected app special privileges to read what's on the screen (at all times?). I would much rather have a standalone, single-purpose app doing this than a gigantic browser. The former is much easier to secure.
    - Groxx 5y ago
      Basically. It receives a stream of accessibility data, so it can decide what is auto-fillable and what isn't. I'm not sure how much content that actually contains, but the app / UI structure / many other details are definitely in there.
alimbada 5y ago
Same. I use Lockwise on iOS. The tone of the email I've just received about this from Mozilla makes it sound as if they've done something wonderful and they're giving themselves a pat on the back which is even more maddening.

rwky 5y ago

>When the app is discontinued, will I still be able to use autofill in other apps? Thankfully it appears it will work https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29322019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29322019

graton 5y ago

> When the app is discontinued, will I still be able to use autofill in other apps? Yes on Android, I have no knowledge of iOS. Just go into the Settings -> Logins and Passwords -> Autofill in other apps.

kbenson 5y ago

> Also, having to open my browser for every password I need to copy on my phone just seems clunky and stupid. You don't (at least for Android), the functionality of Lockwise appears to have been replicated in Firefox. There's a toggle in the logins and passwords settings section of Firefox to allow it to fill in passwords for other apps. Apparently they're rolling it out in iOS next month, according to the article (as jdlshore pointed out).

kevincox 5y ago
Fantastic! I never liked having another app for passwords so I removed lockwise as soon as Firefox (the new one) got password support but was never aware that it grew autofill support!
- kelnos 5y ago
  I'm not sure how great this is, though, from a security perspective. When I select Firefox as my autofill provider on Android, I get this message: > "Make sure you trust this app" > "Firefox Beta uses what's on your screen to determine what can be autofilled." So, unless I'm mistaken, it sounds like the OS gives the selected app special privileges to read what's on the screen (at all times?). I would much rather have a standalone, single-purpose app doing this than a gigantic browser. The former is much easier to secure.
  - Groxx 5y ago
    Basically. It receives a stream of accessibility data, so it can decide what is auto-fillable and what isn't. I'm not sure how much content that actually contains, but the app / UI structure / many other details are definitely in there.

alimbada 5y ago

Same. I use Lockwise on iOS. The tone of the email I've just received about this from Mozilla makes it sound as if they've done something wonderful and they're giving themselves a pat on the back which is even more maddening.