Password AutoFill in iOS 12 will work with third-party password managers

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Apple will now allow password manager applications to integrate with Password AutoFill in iOS 12
That means you&ll have easier access to all your passwords when trying to sign into mobile websites and apps, not just those stored in
iCloud Keychain. This may seem like a small change, but it actually an important one. Many users today take advantage of password management
applications to help get control over their dozens, or even hundreds, of online accounts. Password managers help them secure their
credentials and recall them quickly, making it easier to use complex, secure, but hard-to-remember passwords
And the password managers can help alert to other problems — like services that have experienced a data breach such as withthe 92 million
compromised MyHeritage accounts, for example — as well as issues with re-used passwords, passwords that are too easy to guess, and other
issues. But even though many users today rely on password managers, they&ve been a bit cumbersome to access while on Apple mobile
devices. You&d either have to launch the password manager iOS app and copy and paste the password, then return to the app or website in
question, or you could use workaround solutions — like 1Password use of the iOS Share Sheet to pull up your password with a series taps
without having to directly launch its own app. This still took time, and was overly complicated when compared to the ease-of-use of just
tapping on the AutoFill option on the QuickType Bar. Allowing users to instead access the passwords they&ve saved in their preferred
password manager application through the same Password AutoFill flow they&re comfortable with today will make it not only faster to sign in,
but could also encourage more adoption of password manager apps, in general. What a wonderful present for us at WWDC this year! Thank you
to all our friends at Apple for this great new API
#1PasswordAutofill pic.twitter.com/jpvRVogslS — 1Password (@1Password) June 5, 2018 1Password, upon hearing the news at Apple Worldwide
Developer Conference this week in San Jose, was so excited about the solution that it went ahead and gave the new software a shot. As you
can see in the 1Password demo above, the new API will allow you to simply tap on the QuickType bar to access your credentials saved with
1Password
The location of those credentials is also identified on the bar itself, after the dash
If two different sets of credentials are stored in both the password manager and in iCloud Keychain, they would both appear in the QuickType
bar, so the user could choose. This is a feature 1Password has been clamoring for since the introduction of Password AutoFill for Apps last
year. &With iOS 11, Apple introduced the ability to fill from your iCloud Keychain into Safari and into apps,& says 1Password Mac and iOS
team lead at AgileBits, Michael Fey
&As soon as we saw this, we got in touch with them, and said can we get this for 1Password as well& &We filed some bug reports and presented
them with mockups of ways we though it could work
And this year, it turns out, they granted our request,& he says
(Theenhancement request filed with Apple was a joint effort between 1Password, Dashlane and LastPass
All threefiled the same request with the same requirements.) 1Password, and likely those other password manager apps as well, will have
their integrations ready as soon as Apple software launches publicly this fall.