Password Managers - what are you using?

[rhett7660]

I use BitWarden.

Or more precisely, I use Apple Keychain and Bitwarden (but since I could only choose one in the poll I chose the external one).

This is what I use also. I tried a few of the others, but ended up in Bitwarden and haven't looked back. But I also use Apple Keychain for somethings in conjunction with Bitwarden.

 

[ifxf]

Keychain is close as a solution but lacks:

• supporting intelligent fields so you can store passports and driver licenses and autofill the information at websites
• forcing me to use a different method to store credit cards and that method won’t store the CVS number.
• working with sites that have one name for its app and a different one for the website
• not being cloud storage agnostic. I won’t use the fragile icloud.

 

[Steven SANH]

I'm only new to Apple and I have the iPhone 14PM. I have my passwords encrypted/locked independently. I have a couple of questions...

1. Is the option switch in Settings: Passwords and Keychain in iCloud 'OFF' by default? (as I may have accidentally turned in on?)

2. When I experiment and do have it 'ON', I feel like someone has taken control over my phone when I go to create a password on a website. The iPhone takes over and autofills in a long password, which I'd prefer to enter in myself. I have so much to learn about the phone, so any positive advice, would be welcome. - thanks.

 

[transmaster]

I have used Apple Keychain since it has been but because I still have a foot still in the PC world I needed something else. I used Lastpass for years but they were purchased by LogMein and than ruined. I switched to Bitwarden it works very well with Apple Keychain

 

[transmaster]

I'm only new to Apple and I have the iPhone 14PM. I have my passwords encrypted/locked independently. I have a couple of questions...

1. Is the option switch in Settings: Passwords and Keychain in iCloud 'OFF' by default? (as I may have accidentally turned in on?)

2. When I experiment and do have it 'ON', I feel like someone has taken control over my phone when I go to create a password on a website. The iPhone takes over and autofills in a long password, which I'd prefer to enter in myself. I have so much to learn about the phone, so any positive advice, would be welcome. - thanks.

You are always given an option, you can allow Keychain to generate one or like me use Bitwarden to generate it. The advantage of Bitwarden is it is cross-platform, Apple, Android, Windows, Linux, etc. Any password you use can be manually entered into both password managers.

 

[maflynn]

Keychain is close as a solution but lacks:

• supporting intelligent fields so you can store passports and driver licenses and autofill the information at websites
• forcing me to use a different method to store credit cards and that method won’t store the CVS number.
• working with sites that have one name for its app and a different one for the website
• not being cloud storage agnostic. I won’t use the fragile icloud.

The lacking of features kind of makes sense

• Not having intelligent fields can be understandable due to the fact that keychain is strictly a password manager. It holds usernames/passwords. They're also promoting their apple wallet to hold your license
• Apple has a different product for credit cards - Apple Wallet so of course its going to not make things even more confusing when it comes to their product holding passwords not supporting credit cards
• This issue can and does trip up many other password managers. 1Password has issues with my banking app
• Being cloud agnostic makes perfect sense, since Apple is all about keeping its customers walled in on their platform

I understand your points and I won't really disagree, but that's where other products do a better job, so why use a poorly featured product that forces you into different methods/tricks to get around its short comings when other password managers offer seamless integration and features?

 

[Lex404]

Dashlane for now.

Quite satisfied, Multiplatform (I have 2x Macs, 1 pc, 1 android DAP).
However, they increased the price like 300% in my region and my license expires in Jan 2025, so I need to find something else before Jan.

Thinking about Bitwarden...

for 2FA I use 2FAS

 

[Iwavvns]

Dashlane for now.

Quite satisfied, Multiplatform (I have 2x Macs, 1 pc, 1 android DAP).
However, they increased the price like 300% in my region and my license expires in Jan 2025, so I need to find something else before Jan.

Thinking about Bitwarden...

for 2FA I use 2FAS

I've actually been doing some research on Bitwarden for the past few months, planning to switch over soon. It's a very nice app/service and is free for personal use. It's open-source, provides secure encryption and has import/export options for vaults. The one thing that was holding me back was lack of cryptanalysis data.. but that lack of data is a good thing when it comes to this type of app/service.

 

[Lex404]

Have you tried their integrated Authenticator? It's in the $10/yr plan.

Tho I feel quite comfortable with 2FAS, I wish I had something faster to autofill without having to go to my phone each time (2FAS has an extension that copies, but it sends a notification on phone and you need to approve it/ select account).