I posted this message on both the Apple community forum, and on Reddit, and even though it's not an attack on anyone, and it doesn't have foul language, they both censored me. Apple's moderators said that it was a rant. It's not, if I was really ranting, it would be a whole different post. I'm simply trying to warn Safari on macOS users of a really big bug when it comes to passwords that if you don't know it's a bug, it can cause you a lot of frustration like it did for me. So hopefully this won't be taken down here, because I hope that somebody reads this and has a way to get through to Apple's engineers and let them know about it. Here's the original post:
It seems to me that Apple has been dropping the ball quite a bit lately. First it was an update to iOS where all my contacts got duplicated, so I had to waste a lot of time deleting the duplicates. Then, suddenly my Messages app would show a lot of the people I had messaged with as phone numbers, not their names. And some of the contacts that I had to delete the duplicate for, now were gone, so again I had to waste time adding the people that were missing.
Now another huge bug, this time with Safari in macOS Monterey. I saw this over the weekend when wiping the SSD in my 2015 Macbook Pro, and I saw it again in my 2015 iMac. Basically, Safari saves the wrong password for logins. I noticed this when I did a fresh install of macOS on my Macbook Pro, and when I saved a few website passwords in Safari, and then I tried to log in to those websites, it would tell me I had the wrong password. So I opened preferences and passwords, and I saw that the passwords saved for those websites were not what I had set, but an alphanumeric string similar to when Safari suggests a strong password when signing up for a service.
Then the same thing happened in my iMac, also with the latest macOS Monterey. I have been an Apple customer for 23 years. I've had a Powermac G3, a G3, a G5, a Macbook Pro, an iMac, 4 iPhones, 2 Apple TVs and a Mac Studio on the way. Having Apple computers is more expensive than building a PC (which I have done), but I did it because Apple products usually are dependable and just work as they should. This is very disappointing. Months after the bug with the duplicated contacts, now Safari is dropping the ball again with this new bug, so I can't save any passwords, or my login will be rejected.
It seems to me that Apple has been dropping the ball quite a bit lately. First it was an update to iOS where all my contacts got duplicated, so I had to waste a lot of time deleting the duplicates. Then, suddenly my Messages app would show a lot of the people I had messaged with as phone numbers, not their names. And some of the contacts that I had to delete the duplicate for, now were gone, so again I had to waste time adding the people that were missing.
Now another huge bug, this time with Safari in macOS Monterey. I saw this over the weekend when wiping the SSD in my 2015 Macbook Pro, and I saw it again in my 2015 iMac. Basically, Safari saves the wrong password for logins. I noticed this when I did a fresh install of macOS on my Macbook Pro, and when I saved a few website passwords in Safari, and then I tried to log in to those websites, it would tell me I had the wrong password. So I opened preferences and passwords, and I saw that the passwords saved for those websites were not what I had set, but an alphanumeric string similar to when Safari suggests a strong password when signing up for a service.
Then the same thing happened in my iMac, also with the latest macOS Monterey. I have been an Apple customer for 23 years. I've had a Powermac G3, a G3, a G5, a Macbook Pro, an iMac, 4 iPhones, 2 Apple TVs and a Mac Studio on the way. Having Apple computers is more expensive than building a PC (which I have done), but I did it because Apple products usually are dependable and just work as they should. This is very disappointing. Months after the bug with the duplicated contacts, now Safari is dropping the ball again with this new bug, so I can't save any passwords, or my login will be rejected.