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The feature that Safari has where Safari will automatically fill your name and address from your defined contact is extremely useful when signing up for different websites. It would be great if Orion could duplicate this functionality in someway allowing a similar capability.

As a user is signing up for different websites, ordering goods and so on. The browser would understand that a name and address field was on the screen and prompted the user if the name and address should be auto filled. Naturally, this would be a feature that could be turned on and off.

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      15 days later

      A place to start for credit cards would be the Orion+ buy page.

        4 days later

        Is this still not a feature? It seems pretty important! @Vlad what do you think?

          2 months later

          The lack of autofill for payment details is a real pain. Please add a function to save all card information as in Safari. I use desktop.

          When making payments online.

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            a month later

            I am going to keep being annoying about this. Most modern browsers have a credit card autofill feature. In addition, both Safari and Chrome have apple pay, and with the latest updates apple pay should be available for other browsers to implement. Is there a reason you don't want this to be a part of Orion?

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              avr

              both Safari and Chrome have apple pay

              That is new to me. Can you show a video of Chrome with Apple pay on macOS?

              Is there a reason you don't want this to be a part of Orion?

              I understand this is taking time, and this is because it is incredibly hard to do this. If you know how can Orion know that a field is used for name/address/credit card that works for all websites and all languages we are happy to accelerate this. It is not a browser problem it is a lack of standards problem.

                  Vlad Of ocurse different languages pose a problem (how does Safari fare there?)

                  Safari does absolutely great there. I'm using autofill in 4 different languages, on a myriad of websites, and it usually works well. Except for phone numbers, since websites like to split the country code and number into different fields.

                      Also, I have 1Password and it shows auto fill options for filling in my name/address and it never works, just allows the selection then does nothing.

                        10 days later

                        Vlad One thing Safari does (on iOS at least) is that it starts filling out a form best it can. Then if you are in an empty field it gives you the option (in the autocorrect bar) to put in the missing fields (CCV, expiration date) semi-manually. You have to tap on it, while in the right field, but at least you don't have to copy your credit card info from somewhere

                            3 months later

                            Vlad It is not a browser problem it is a lack of standards problem.

                            Firefox does it, and it’s open source. Perhaps your devs could look into their code.

                                meshmeshumeshu or even Firefox

                                Firefox on iOS actually fills names, addresses, and credit cards now. They added it around March 2024

                                    3 months later

                                    Vlad typically html forms have a name attribute, like "email", "first name", "address1" etc, that are pretty standard.

                                    You can use either Field Attributes & Name Detection
                                    Modern web forms use standard name attributes, such as:
                                    name="email"
                                    name="address"
                                    name="firstName"
                                    Your browser can map these to stored user data.

                                    1. Detect Input Type & Label Associations
                                      Many websites follow semantic form designs:
                                      <input type="email"> → Autofill with the stored email.
                                      <input type="tel"> → Autofill with the stored phone number.
                                      Use <label for="id"> associations to infer the field purpose.
                                    2. Or you can leverage the new autocomplete feature of html5:
                                      <input type="text" name="street-address" autocomplete="address-line1">
                                      <input type="text" name="city" autocomplete="address-level2">
                                      Your autofill system should recognize these standard values and save them in some type of safe browser storage.
                                        13 days later

                                        JadZeineddine This^

                                        Every browser has the issue that if the form on a website is not properly created or standardized, auto-fills won't work.

                                        But having payment methods saved, and a default address for shippings would be all i need to not miss Safari at all haha

                                            5 days later

                                            Sadly I’ve come to the conclusion that this is a deal breaker for me to continue using Orion :/ I purchase a lot online on different websites and not having an option to auto fill cards and delivery address is really annoying 🙁 Im glad to support Orion with my yearly subscription but I’m gonna have to go back to Arc since they have support for all this baked in

                                              javit89 Arc has support for all this baked in

                                              On iOS?

                                                  brando I realized arc has the password and payment methods manager only for each local installation, so it’s not synced through cloud to other sessions 🙁 then I gave up and decided to sub to 1Pass and when I tried to use it with Orion it kept crashing (like 10 times within 1 hour) every time I tried to autofill a password 🙁

                                                      javit89 so it’s not synced through cloud to other sessions

                                                      Only iOS browsers that sync address and payments afaik is Firefox, Safari, and Chrome

                                                          10 days later

                                                          This is a big deal and a major inconvenience when using Orion. Also, when using autofill for passwords, you should not have to fill the user name and password separately. You should be able to just pick the user name and have it fill in the password automatically.