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My feature entails adding Apple Passwords support like Safari. It will enhance existing workflows for people using iCloud Keychain (now Apple Passwords).

When a user goes to a login form a popup appears that allows them to autofill the username/password. Currently the only way to autofill passwords with Apple Passwords is to open the context menu > Autofill > Passwords > Search for the relevant site > Manually copy/paste the username & password (you have to redo the steps from the context menu for the username & password individually).

  • Vlad replied to this.

    Anatomy5803 Orion can autofill passwords from Safari keychain already. Can you clarify what the suggestion is? perhaps show video/screenshots?

        Yep, while it does technically offer support, it's a LOT of steps to open Apple Passwords.
        I'm currently using the iCloud Passwords extension to help expedite the workflow, @Vlad - if you haven't checked that out before, I recommend giving it a world. It's an official Apple extension on the Chrome store.

          Vlad

          When you go to a site with a username/password field, you have the option to autofill with a password immediately as a popup in the text input field. Then you authenticate with Touch ID, and it autofills. Super convenient. Like @mohrbius says its faster than doing it through the context menu.

          • Vlad replied to this.

              I also agree with the suggestion. There are security issues with manually copying and pasting. Native integration like Safari is desirable, but I think we can achieve our goal with a fix that makes the iCloud password extension work. (currently there is a problem that you can't enter the authentication number.)

              I'm sorry, I couldn't see your conversation because I didn't reload this page for a few days. I withdraw my remarks.

                6 days later

                @Vlad I unfortunately can't 🙁 due to privacy concerns, but maybe someone else could? Right now on Orion you have to autofill by searching the account through the passwords option in the context menu. Imagine in the screenshot I showed in my previous post it just showed "Passwords..." and once you click that you have to search for the specific account.

                  3 months later

                  @Vlad this is still a real issue. The current Orion use of Apple Passwords through the "auto fill" context menu is very painful for the "trend" in multi-step logins. Take Asana with 2FA... you need to invoke the context menu > "Auto fill" > "Passwords" > Login Apple account (enter password if you don't have a finger-print reader) [and the timeout on the Apple Passwords is short - so you have to do this often]) > then the Apple Passwords modal doesn't seem to get the URL context, it also doesn't autofocus the search form (requiring another click) > find the site in all your Apple Passwords list > open it > select the login username/email > submit the websites form.... then do the same flow (minus the session creation to Apple Passwords) again for the password > submit that form... then do the same flow again for the OTP (one-time-verification-code).

                  As you can read; this isn't a nice UX (it's a lot of steps which adds a lot of effort that other alternatives/browsers aren't doing).


                  10 days later

                  This is a highly desirable feature. When automatically-generated passwords are in the mix, it would be very convenient if Orion could fetch them like Safari does.

                  • Vlad replied to this.

                    glhrmv Can you give an example of non-Safari browser that does this better than Orion? (it might be that what you ask is simply not possible)

                        Vlad Hmm I guess ideally Orion's keychain would just be a replica of Apple Passwords. I don't know any browser that does this better.

                            The official Apple iCloud Chrome (Play Store) extension has a better/faster/shorter UX flow that Orion for filling inputs with content stored in Apple Passwords.

                            • Vlad replied to this.

                              Previously I've posted all the stages of Orion as screenshots. Attached now is a video of the Chrome iClouds Passwords Extension running in Arc. One video shows with the extensions "Autofill" setting enabled, and the other manually requesting the login fill from the Extensions icon. Both methods allow for multi account selection and filter to passwords for the site. It's a much much simplifier and faster UX flow than Orion's current implementation.
                              The autofill option opens the overlay on site load, so it's 2 clicks to login. I think if you have only one account for the site in Passwords, then it's as simple as the browser native password autofill.


                                4 days later

                                Vlad will this feature then include Touch ID integration, as well as passkeys, or is this seperate? I am confused at the difference between icloud keychain and passkeys as well as passwords.

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                                    9 days later

                                    Vlad So Touch ID will be implemented with passwords, but not passkeys?