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feature is crucial A crucial feature for me would be password-manager support (lastpass, 1passwd). The (lack of) password management on the iPad is driving me

by moe 14y ago

feature is crucial A crucial feature for me would be password-manager support (lastpass, 1passwd). The (lack of) password management on the iPad is driving me nuts. The half-baked external apps that let you copy/paste don't cut it for me. Nor the awfully slow and constantly crashing "LastPass browser". Does Chrome finally bring relief?

pooriaazimi 14y ago
Hmm... I never thought of that. Safari 6 added a new preferences panel for saved passwords. Unfortunately there's not an equivalent iPad setting (just checked on iPad 2, iOS 6 beta 1), but this might change between now and fall... Maybe you should file a bug report?
- moe 14y ago
  I didn't have much success with the bugs that I filed at apple over the past years. They all went into a black hole, never received as much as a response. The thing is that I don't want the iPad to just save passwords. It already does that, although somewhat unreliably for me. I want it to use my existing, ginormous list of passwords stored in LastPass. I don't even try anymore to do anything that requires a login on the iPad, it's an exercise in frustration. Sometimes Safari remembers the password that I painfully transcribed for a site, usually it doesn't. It's such a blatant oversight for a device that is touted no least as "the internet in your hands" that I keep wondering why I so rarely see other people mention it.
  - damncabbage 14y ago
    It's such a blatant oversight for a device that is touted no least as "the internet in your hands" that I keep wondering why I so rarely see other people mention it. I was with you up until this last sentence. People who know what LastPass is (let alone use it) are in a tiny minority. Given how they treat the development community (hello Xcode nightmare), which I'd wager is a much larger group, I don't think it's entirely surprising that something like password manager support would be further down in the list of priorities.
KirinDave 14y ago
Chrome Sync allows you to sync passwords.
spudlyo 14y ago
Agreed. 1Password support would be the thing that would cause me to use Chrome exclusively on iOS. The machinations I have to go through now with 1Password on iOS are extremely frustrating.
carlesfe 14y ago
I have the same problem and found a solution, maybe it helps for you. 1password supports Dropbox integration, and it provides a web page inside your dropbox account (i.e. password protected) that you can log into with your master password to check them out. It is not automatic nor integrated, and it does not allow you to add new passwords, but at least you can easily copy and paste them on the iPad.

by moe 14y ago

pooriaazimi 14y ago

Hmm... I never thought of that. Safari 6 added a new preferences panel for saved passwords. Unfortunately there's not an equivalent iPad setting (just checked on iPad 2, iOS 6 beta 1), but this might change between now and fall... Maybe you should file a bug report?

moe 14y ago
I didn't have much success with the bugs that I filed at apple over the past years. They all went into a black hole, never received as much as a response. The thing is that I don't want the iPad to just save passwords. It already does that, although somewhat unreliably for me. I want it to use my existing, ginormous list of passwords stored in LastPass. I don't even try anymore to do anything that requires a login on the iPad, it's an exercise in frustration. Sometimes Safari remembers the password that I painfully transcribed for a site, usually it doesn't. It's such a blatant oversight for a device that is touted no least as "the internet in your hands" that I keep wondering why I so rarely see other people mention it.
- damncabbage 14y ago
  It's such a blatant oversight for a device that is touted no least as "the internet in your hands" that I keep wondering why I so rarely see other people mention it. I was with you up until this last sentence. People who know what LastPass is (let alone use it) are in a tiny minority. Given how they treat the development community (hello Xcode nightmare), which I'd wager is a much larger group, I don't think it's entirely surprising that something like password manager support would be further down in the list of priorities.

KirinDave 14y ago

Chrome Sync allows you to sync passwords.

spudlyo 14y ago

Agreed. 1Password support would be the thing that would cause me to use Chrome exclusively on iOS. The machinations I have to go through now with 1Password on iOS are extremely frustrating.

carlesfe 14y ago

I have the same problem and found a solution, maybe it helps for you. 1password supports Dropbox integration, and it provides a web page inside your dropbox account (i.e. password protected) that you can log into with your master password to check them out. It is not automatic nor integrated, and it does not allow you to add new passwords, but at least you can easily copy and paste them on the iPad.