Apple Passwords 🍎☹️
Apple finally released its stand alone Password app. Which meant it was now time to try and transition from 1Password. After spending way too much time trying to do this, I have sadly decided, it’s still not ready.
Issues
- Only supports CSV imports. This looses fidelity trying to import from 1Password. Fails with missing data in some fields and on non-http urls, such as app links that 1Password supports.
- Entries that contain similar domains get combined as a single entry when importing into Apple Password. For example, I have accounts for AWS that use an “console.aws.amazon.com” domain and my personal Amazon account that uses “amazon.com” domain. Apple Passwords combined these and lost my TOTP entry for one of them. This likely happened to other accounts I didn’t check.
- No way to export from 1Password per shared vault. It’s all or nothing in the CSV. My goal would be to export a shared vault and then import into Apple Passwords and add to a shared group with the same people. This is something Apple Passwords should support by being able to import something other than CSV.
- No way in Apple Passwords to assign a default shared group to use. In 1Password you can set a shared vault as the primary, allowing all new accounts to be default created in a shared location. With Apple Passwords you would need to manually move items to a shared group. The way we use 1Password with my wife is almost all accounts go into a shared vault between us. Having to manually move will be difficult and accounts will end up in the private group.
- Ignores imported/existing entries. Trying to live in Apple Passwords for a while after importing, I noticed that it would ignore existing accounts when asking new login info like Passkeys. For example, I had an existing Github login in Apple Passwords then went into Github to add a passkey, and Apple Passwords ignored my existing entry and created a new entry for Github, with the passkey.
- Failed at saving password updates. I attempted to update existing logins and some of the time it detected the update and properly updated the entry with the new password it suggested. Other times, it would suggest a new password, which I used, then not offer to update the existing entry. This ended up updating the online account with the new password but loosing the new password. To be fair, I have had 1Password do this before as well.
- Impossible to edit website linked to imported entries. At least one example where I wanted to fix/update the website imported from 1Password. I could add new websites, remove the newly added websites, but could not edit or remove the entry that was imported.
- No password history. Apple Passwords has no history of password changes. Make an oops when changing a password and need to the old one back, nope. I have used this feature of 1Password more than once.