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AutoFill Passwords not working on iPhone or iPad? 9 Real fixes

The password autofill feature on iPhone and iPad makes life easier, as you don’t need to fill in your credentials repeatedly while logging in to a website or an app. It’s one of the many dividends you enjoy on your Apple device. However, sometimes AutoFill Passwords stop working on your iPhone or iPad.

Having faced the issue a couple of times, I know what might be causing it. If you are in the same boat, keep reading to find out the best solution.

• Ensure AutoFill Password is enabled
• Allow iCloud Keychain to fill passwords
• Check iCloud keychain status
• Exit private browsing
• Add login credentials for a specific website to AutoFill
• Enable Safari AutoFill for contact info and credit cards
• Turn off/on AutoFill
• Restart your iPhone or iPad
• Update your device’s OS

1. Ensure AutoFill Password is enabled

A common cause of AutoFill Password failure on iPhone is that you might’ve either accidentally turned it off or failed to activate it at all. Moreover, the latter might be the case if you’re a new iPhone user.

Thus, turning this feature on ensures that iOS registers all your credentials per website or app locally on your iPhone. It does this using the iCloud Keychain, which also helps secure credentials.

To activate Password AutoFill on your iPhone or iPad:

• Open Settings .
• Go to Passwords .
• Tap AutoFill Passwords .

If it’s already enabled, move on to the next fixes. There might be more salient issues that need attention.

2. Allow iCloud Keychain to fill passwords

If enabled on your iPhone, Apple stores all your passwords, usernames, and payment information on your device using iCloud Keychain. Moreover, the stored credentials sync across all your Apple devices. Hence, you don’t need to fill in passwords repeatedly while logging in.

However, iCloud Keychain needs to be enabled on your device for AutoFill to work. So one of the potential reasons your AutoFill has stopped working is that this feature might be disabled. Take a look at our guide to  enable iCloud Keychain on iPhone or iPad .

3. Check iCloud keychain status

On rare occasions, it might be the iCloud Keychain server that’s preventing AutoFill from working. This might be regional or more widespread. You can check the iCloud Keychain server status by going to the  Apple Support System Status  page.

A service with a green dot to its left shows that it’s currently available. Look for iCloud Keychain on the list and check if it’s available or not.

Unfortunately, there’s nothing you can do at your end to fix this other than wait for Apple to resolve the issue. Nonetheless, this is uncommon. And if it occurs at all, it doesn’t take long before it comes to life.

4. Exit private browsing

Private browsing hides your browsing activities from other services. So even if the autofill feature works on your iPhone, trying to log into a website in incognito mode on Safari prevents iCloud Keychain from passing the authentication credentials.

Bear in mind that Password AutoFill will work for other apps at this point but won’t work on the browser. So, exit private browsing while signing in to a website. Here’s a handy guide for disabling private browsing on Safari .

5. Add login credentials for a specific website to AutoFill

Besides enabling AutoFill Password, some websites might need extra attention to autofill passwords and usernames during login. Hence, it is best to add them manually. This is especially helpful if you want to use other browsers besides Safari to log in to websites.

To do this, copy the URL of the said website and follow these instructions:

• Open Settings → Passwords .
• Tap the + icon at the top right.
• Enter the URL , username , and password of the website in the respective fields.

The next time you want to log in to any of the websites you’ve added, tap Passwords at the top of your iPhone’s keyboard. Then select the website from the options that pop up.

6. Enable Safari AutoFill for contact info and credit cards

If you want Safari to autofill contact and credit card information in addition to passwords and usernames, you’ll have to allow them in Settings. Besides, you might also want to check. Here’s how:

• Go to Settings .
• Scroll down and tap Safari .
• Select AutoFill .

Note : Ensure to add your credit card to Safari Password AutoFill previously. Otherwise, Safari won’t see your credit card while auto-filling payment information online . For more information, take a look at this guide on adding a credit card to Safari autofill .

7. Turn off/on AutoFill

So this is more like a try-and-error quick fix. But trust me, it works sometimes. The thing is: there may be some memory issues or lag in the function of the autofill feature on your iPhone or iPad. To resolve this, all you might have to do is:

• Go to Settings → Passwords → AutoFill Passwords .
• Toggle off AutoFill Passwords .
• Wait for a few seconds and toggle on AutoFill Passwords.

8. Restart your iPhone or iPad

If you’re still battling with AutoFill Password not working on your iPhone, merely restarting your device might do the trick. Now, how to do this varies, depending on your iPhone model. Here’s a guide on how to restart the various iPhone and iPad models .

9. Update your device’s OS

If AutoFill Password still doesn’t work on your iPhone, updating your iPhone or iPad OS might be all you need to do. An outdated iOS version deprives your iPhone of support for some recent features, which might include the iCloud Keychain and AutoFill.

Signing off!

Apple has won the heart of many by introducing more user-centric features. And one of these is the AutoFill password that helps you fill authentication whenever you want to sign in to an app or a website. I hope this guide helped fix the issue of AutoFill Password not working on your iPhone or iPad.

Facing any other queries or have more questions? Let me know in the comments below.

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• Ensure the autofill passwords feature is enabled on your iPhone or iPad.
• If your saved passwords aren’t functioning in a particular app, try restarting it.
• Confirm that iCloud Keychain sync is enabled on your device.

Basic Fixes

• Turn off private browsing mode : The autofill feature does not work when you browse in private mode on your iPhone or iPad. If you experience this issue only in private browsing mode , try turning it off.
• Check the iCloud keychain server status : Issues with the iCloud Keychain servers can prevent your device from syncing passwords, causing the autofill feature to stop working on your iPhone or iPad. To check for this possibility, visit Apple’s System Status page and look for the icon on the left of the iCloud Keychain.
• Install software updates: Apple regularly releases updates for the iPhone and iPad to add new features and address issues. If this issue is only occurring due to a bug, installing pending updates will help.

Fix 1: Enable AutoFill Passwords

It’s a good idea to ensure you haven’t accidentally disabled the AutoFill Passwords option on your iPhone or iPad. Here’s how to check that.

Step 1: Open the Settings app > tap Passwords > select Password Options .

Step 2: Enable the toggle for AutoFill Passwords . If it’s already on, try turning it off and back on again.

Fix 2: Enable Sync for iCloud Keychain

Enabling the AutoFill Passwords option may not help much if you have disabled sync for iCloud Keychain on your iPhone or iPad . Here’s how to turn it back on.

Step 1: Open the Settings app and tap your name at the top. Then, select iCloud from the following menu.

Step 2: Tap Passwords and Keychain and toggle on Sync this iPhone .

Fix 3: Remove and Re-Add AutoFill Details for Websites

Is your iPhone or iPad not filling in the password for a specific website? If so, delete the autofill information associated with that website and re-enter it. Here’s how to do it.

Step 1: Open the Settings app and scroll down to tap on Passwords . Then, tap on Edit at the top-right corner.

Step 2: Select the website for which you want to remove the data and tap Delete at the top-left corner. Then, select Delete Password when prompted.

Step 3: Tap the plus icon in the upper-right corner and add your website login credentials again.

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[SOLVED] iPadOS: Not Autofilling Passwords

• Thread starter SpicyTrigger
• Start date May 25, 2021
• Tags autofill ipad ipados magic keyboard password
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SpicyTrigger

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• May 25, 2021

Hi there, I'm new to the whole iPadOS thing and tried to search for my issue but didn't seem to find any other posts or solutions. As soon as I connect my iPad Pro 11" (2021) to the Magic Keyboard the option to autofill passwords is not shown anymore. I tested Safari & Firefox, in neither of them did it work. If I take the iPad of the Magic Keyboard, the touch keyboard including the option to autofill my saved passwords reappears. Is this supposed to happen like that? I mean I can handle it with the multitasking & 1Password but it would be much more convenient to autofill them directly from the browser. Regards, SpicyTrigger.  

macrumors 6502

I have the same when i connect a Bluetooth keyboard. I think this happens because of security reasons, otherwise you could bypass the autofill by connecting a keyboard.  

macrumors 604

There should be a little horizontal bar at the bottom that gives you the option to auto fill passwords even with a physical keyboard connected. See if you can enable predictive typing and have the bar appear again.  

• May 26, 2021

haruhiko said: There should be a little horizontal bar at the bottom that gives you the option to auto fill passwords even with a physical keyboard connected. See if you can enable predictive typing and have the bar appear again. Click to expand...

SpicyTrigger said: THIS was it! Thank you so much, now the horizontal bar appears again with the Magic Keyboard attached 🥰 Click to expand...

foliovision

Macrumors regular.

• Sep 6, 2023

I'd turned off predictive typing as I don't like it. If you have a keyboard attached to your iPad, to get the password dialogue box (which I get on my iPhone (iOS 15 & 16) to come up on iPadOS 16, predictive typing must be enabled. I'm just writing the above hint in a very clear way for anyone else who stumbles on this post.  

18 Ways to Fix AutoFill Passwords Not Working in iOS 17 on iPhone and iPad

Thanks to the seamless and secure autofill feature, logging into apps and websites feels ever so smooth sailing. As someone who hates to remember passwords, let alone fill them up repeatedly and spare time to manage them, I love this feature more than anything else. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work as expected. That’s why I thought it would be helpful to talk about various ways to fix AutoFill passwords not working on in iOS 17 iPhone and iPad. So, if you have found yourself on the wrong end of this frustrating issue, these 18 tips will come to your rescue.

Fix AutoFill Passwords Not Working on iPhone and iPad

Integrated with the iCloud Keychain, the built-in password manager, the AutoFill password leaves very little room for complaint. However, it has had its fair share of issues. Before going on to resolve it, let’s figure out some of the possible reasons that tend to prevent the autofill feature from working:

• Technical outage
• Wrong configuration
• Accidental deletion of iCloud Keychain data
• Incognito mode
• Lack of support
• Outdated apps
• Software bug

We have looked at each one of the above villains to troubleshoot the problem. So, chances are pretty high that you will be able to bring the autofill password back on track after trying out the suggested tips.

• While this guide has been updated in accordance with iOS 17, you can make the most of these tips to troubleshoot the AutoFill password issues in older iOS versions as well.

1. Make Sure That iCloud Keychain is Enabled on Your iPhone or iPad

To get going, ensure that you have enabled the iCloud Keychain on your device. While it may sound funny to many, it’s always better to start with the basics.

• On your iPhone or iPad, open the Settings app -> your profile -> iCloud .

• Now, tap on Passwords and Keychain , and then make sure that the toggle for Sync this iPhone or iPad is turned on.

• Next, head over to any website or app and try to autofill the password to check if you have overcome the problem.

2. Ensure That AutoFill Toggles for Contact Info and Credit Cards are Enabled in Safari

iOS allows you to enable autofill for contact info and credit cards in Safari. Thus, you can automatically fill out web forms using your contact info and credit cards as and when the need arrives.

• Go to the Settings app on your device – > Safari -> AutoFill .
• Then, turn on the toggles for Use Contact Info and Credit Cards .

3. Allow Filling from iCloud Passwords and Keychain

Another important thing that you should do without fail is to allow filling from iCloud Passwords and Keychain.

• Head into the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad -> Passwords -> Password Options.
• Under the Allow Filling From section, ensure that iCloud Passwords & Keychain is selected.

4. Disable Private Browsing Mode

Note that the autofill password does not work in the private browsing mode . Therefore, if you are trying to use the autofill password in Safari, ensure that the private browsing mode is disabled.

• To do so, open Safari on your iPhone or iPad -> touch and hold onto the tabs icon at the bottom right corner of the screen and then choose a general tab or a tab group.

• Alternately, launch Safari on your device -> tap on the X tabs in the bottom center of the screen and choose other tabs to get out of Safari’s private browsing mode.

5. Be Sure You Didn’t Delete Your iCloud Keychain Data Locally

Make sure you didn’t delete your iCloud Keychain data locally. Bear in mind that when you disable iCloud Keychain on all your devices and choose to delete your iCloud Keychain locally, it also wipes your entire Keychain data from iCloud servers.

6. Make Sure You Didn’t Use Keychain Access to Reset your iCloud Keychain on Your Mac

Ensure that you didn’t use Keychain Access to reset your iCloud Keychain on your Mac. If you did it, macOS wiped out your iCloud Keychain items. In this situation, you will need to set up iCloud Keychain again. Do note that if you ever happen to reset your Mac Keychain, make sure to temporarily turn off iCloud Keychain in iCloud Preferences before resetting the macOS Keychain.

7. Make Sure the Apps/Websites Support AutoFill Passwords

Even though it’s been several years since Apple introduced the autofill passwords, there are still many apps and websites that still do not support this feature. Thus, ensure that the apps or websites, where you want to use the autofill password feature, support this feature.

8. Make Sure You Have Added the Login Credentials for a Specific Website

It’s important to point out that you must add the login credentials for a specific website to autofill. If you haven’t done it yet, be sure to do it without fail.

9. Force Quit the App

At times, all you need to do to fix an ill-functioning app is to just force-kill it. So, whether the autofill popup does not seem to show or the app seems to feel unresponsive, give this nifty hack a try.

• On iPhone and iPad without the Home button: Swipe up from the Home bar and hold along the middle of the screen. Then, swipe up on the app card to close the problematic app.

• On iPhone and iPad with the Home button: Double-press the Home button to bring up the App Switcher and then swipe up on the app cards to kill the corresponding apps.

10. Turn OFF/ON AutoFill Passwords

Many a time, you can get rid of a common iOS issue just by turning on/off the feature. Considering how nifty yet effective it is, we will not miss out on this one.

• Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad -> Passwords -> Password Options -> turn off the toggle for AutoFill Passwords .
• After that, restart your device.
• Once your device has rebooted, enable AutoFill Passwords.

11. Reset the Password

Whenever I face the autofill passwords not working issue on my iPhone, one of the very first things that I try to do is reset the password. On most occasions, this simple trick works in fixing the problem. Guess what? I’m going to count on it to work wonder again.

• Head over to the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad -> Scroll down and select Passwords -> find the app/s which passwords are not working and then reset them.

12. Hard Reset Your iPhone or iPad

When you are up against an annoying issue like this one, you can’t overlook hard reset considering how effective it is.

• On iPhone 8/X or later and iPad without the Home Button: Press and quickly release the volume button. Then, press and quickly release the volume down button. After that, hold down the power button until the Apple logo appears on the screen.
• iPhone 7/7 Plus: Hold down the volume down button and the Home button at once until you see the Apple logo.
• On iPhone 6s or earlier and iPad with the Home button: Hold down the Home button and the power button simultaneously until the Apple logo shows up on the screen.

13. Update All Apps

If the auto-fill passwords are not working inside specific apps on your iOS device, update all those problematic apps. If you haven’t updated them for a while, the devil could be hidden in their outdated structure.

• Navigate to the App Store on your device -> tap on your profile at the upper right corner of the screen -> scroll down to find the list of apps that need to be updated.
• Then, update all apps at once or do it one by one.

14. Update Software

These days, software bugs have become probably the biggest villain, especially on iOS. Therefore, I suspect a rare bug could be hindering the autofill passwords from functioning properly.

• Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad – > General -> Software Update and then download and install the latest version of the software.

15. Delete and Reinstall All the Problematic Apps

If you still can’t autofill passwords for certain apps on your iPhone, delete and reinstall them. Make sure to back up the data before going for the kill.

• Simply, touch and hold onto the app icon -> Remove App -> Delete the App and confirm. Then, open the App Store -> find the apps and reinstall them.

16. Reset All Settings

Factory reset is another reliable solution that comes in super handy when dealing with a persistent issue. Hence, we will give it a chance as well. For folks who are concerned about losing important data, let me assure you that a factory reset does not harm any media or data.

• Go to the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad -> General -> Transfer or Reset iPhone/iPad -> Reset -> Reset All Settings .

17. Make Sure iCloud Keychain is Not Facing Any Outage

If iCloud Keychain is going through an outage, you can’t do anything but wait until Apple fixes the problem. Hence, if the built-in password manager continues to struggle even after you have checked off all the basics, go to Apple’s System Status page and make sure that the circle next to the iCloud Keychain is green. Just in case the iCloud Keychain’s circle is showing orange, take a cup of coffee and allow the Cupertino giant to resolve the problem.

18. Sign Out of Apple ID and Sign Back In

Should the autofill functionality continue to misbehave, I would suggest you sign out of Apple ID and sign back in . A fresh sign-in may help in fixing the problem.

• Launch the Settings app on your device -> your profile -> tap on Sign Out . Be sure to keep a copy of all the important data so that you won’t lose it before confirmation.

• After waiting for a few seconds, sign in using your Apple ID and password.

Fixed AutoFill Password Not Working on iPhone and iPad..!

There you go! Hopefully, the autofill passwords feature is back on track and has begun to work as expected. Great! But, before you get engrossed in your work or kickstart a long gaming spree, be sure to let us know the tip that has rescued you. Besides, if you find any viable solution missing from this troubleshooting guide, let us know that as well.

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Daily Tip: How to use AutoFill to automatically fill out web forms on iPhone and iPad

Tired of filling out one tedious web form after another, and wondering how to get Safari on iPhone and iPad to automatically fill them out for you? Luckily, deep within the settings of Safari there is a way to setup AutoFill, something which allows you to automatically input your personal data on sites that permit its use.

• If you haven't already, create a contact for yourself in the Contacts app.
• Open up the Contacts app
• Select the plus sign in the top right corner

• Add in your personal information

• Open up your settings app

• Tap on Safari
• Tap on AutoFill
• Toggle "Use Contact Info" to on

• Tap on My Info and select the contact you just created or the one you already had
• Now when you visit a site that needs your information, as soon as you select the first text box your keyboard will pop up and there will be an option called AutoFill

• Tap on AutoFill and Bob’s your Uncle, all your details will be automatically filled in for you

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AutoFill Passwords Not Working on iPhone and iPad? Here’s the Fix

Fix AutoFill Passwords Not Working Issue on iPhone and iPad

Ensure that icloud keychain is enabled.

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad> your profile and choose iCloud.

Turn off Private Browsing

When private browsing is enabled, Safari doesn’t save account names and passwords. So, if this mode is active, be sure to disable it as it might be preventing the AutoFill from working properly.

• Open Safari on your device. Then, tap on the tabs icon at the bottom right corner.

Check That the AutoFill Toggles for Contact Info and Credit Cards Are Enabled

1. Launch the Settings app on your device > Safari > AutoFill.

Turn off/on AutoFill and Check Your Saved Websites/Apps Passwords

• Launch Settings app > Passwords & Accounts > Website & App Passwords .

Update Your iOS or iPadOS Device

If none of the above solutions have resolved AutoFill passwords not working issue on your iOS or iPadOS device, go for the software update. It might well be the answer to this problem just like other issues in iOS 13 such as Wi-Fi issues and Bluetooth issues . But before hopping into the Settings, make sure your device has around 50% power and is connected to Wi-Fi. Go to Settings app > General > Software Update. Then, install the latest update.

Fix AutoFill Passwords Issue on iPhone and iPad

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Not working with any of your recommended fixes. Once I touch the Touch ID button the Norton Password Manager circle starts to spin and stop after one turn and everything stops. Have hit the X to close the window. Login does not happen. Have to manually enter the user i’d and the password, which I can get from the vault.

Literally nothing works on this for me. Every setting I checked has save password or autofill password enabled. Nothing ever asks or offers to save a password. I use complex passwords different for every app. And every app signs me out every 1-30 days. Literally my only option is to copy/paste all my app password list into Notes and manually look them up every time, basically destroying any kind of resemblance of security whatsoever in addition to being an absolute pain. Thanks, Apple!

Step 3 did it for me… my auto fill was turned on but keychain was not checked… Thanks it’s working now

Nothing works. The solution I found is Settings> Passwords> Password auto fill ENABLE.

Issue fixed with step 3 (turn off the AutoFill Passwords toggle. Then, restart your device. After that, return to this setting and turn on the AutoFill Passwords switch.)

Thanks a lot ♥

Nothing worked for me. The key icon is gone to indicate passwords.

I can get it for a username but when it goes to the password screen it doesn’t show and apple now treats it as though you’re changing the password and it wants to generate its own.

Didn’t work when I try to turn on auto fill for contacts it says there are none and turns it off again Any more help would be appreciated

Never mind my previous comment. IT IS WORKING AGAIN! Thank you!

Did all of it and it does not fill my Pw or ask to update Pw. So frustrating

May I know how to solve the problem for some iPhone device doesn’t have From Messsage xxxxx on keyboard for automatically fill in sms passcode? It has only xxxx on keyboard for tab.

Great Article. Apple should fire their staff and employ you! Managed to solve this issue after scratching my head for a whole day following an update! Thanks so much.

In order to save passwords, they must be in the iCloud keychain. Sure I want to share my keychain across my devices. But the iCloud is not one of MY devices. It belongs to AppleInc. Am I paranoid to believe that anything I put on the internet can be copied or stolen. The iCloud is just a filename on the internet. Just restore inter-device file syncing. Then my data does not voluntarily leave my house.

Or, get an Android. Because Apple has become so controlling that it has lost its’ value. My next phone will not be an Apple.

I’m with you- I hated Android when I got mine, but I got quite used to it. Still bought an iPhone 12 as I remembered Apple iOS being easier to use. Not anymore. I hate my iPhone. I can’t believe I’m saying this but after so many things not working right and no solutions from Apple, I want my Android back!!

Followed the steps on the IPhone worked first time.

The IPAD however will still not generate strong passwords, although I have noticed that the passwords are not updating on the IPad when I change them using the phone. Will play about with the link / sync option to see if that helps.

I just turn on and off and don’t work, the way that works for me was enter into some account in safari (like facebook or twitter) and the autofill apears with face id, so then when you try it in an app it will works 🙂

I have an issue where one app is not asking to save the password. I tried all of the suggestions and still it is not working. I even deleted the app and reinstalled it. Any suggestions would be great.

When I reset my data it had turned off auto-fill passwords. Thanks for helping me turn it back on

Utterly brilliant thank you so much. I spent about an hour trying to sort this out then I found this article and step two (private browsing) sorted it out straight away. Great step by step approach and the screenshots just gave me confidence I would get it right.

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Safari's AutoFill will automatically complete information for contacts, passwords, credit cards and more. Today we're going to discuss how to turn off or edit those AutoFill entries on macOS and iOS.

Whenever any form data is autofilled, Safari highlights them in yellow.

To turn off any or all AutoFill forms in Safari on macOS, first open Safari's preferences from the Safari menu or press Command+, on your keyboard.

In Safari's preferences, click the AutoFill tab You'll see a list of the things Safari can autofill.

Uncheck any items you don't want Safari autofilling, or click "Edit" next to any of the four items to change the actual data Safari has saved. This includes:

• Using info from my contacts : When you start typing any personal information about you, or any other person in your Contacts, into a form (name, address, phone number, etc.), Safari will autofill the blanks.
• User names and passwords : Clicking "Edit" will simply switch to the Passwords tab, which will let you amend any of your login information contained therein.
• Credit cards : This will open a credit card dialog allowing you add or remove payment information. Double-click on an entry to update a credit card's information including the cardholder's name, card number, and expiration date. Before you can edit any sensitive data, you will have to enter your system password.
• Other forms : Click the other forms "Edit" button to edit or remove any or all form data you have saved for a particular website. This is particularly useful if you frequently visit a website with forms you need to fill in time after time with the same information.

Safari on iOS can also fill in form data automatically. To access the AutoFill settings on iOS, open the Settings and tap "Safari".

Next, scroll down to the General options and tap "AutoFill".

In iOS, the options are slightly different than on macOS. You can still turn off your contact information, names and passwords, and credit cards, but there is no option for other forms.

The My Info option will let you choose another contact to use as your device's main contact, or again, you can edit your own contact information so it is up to date.

You can also view, add, remove, and edit any saved credit cards.

You may have noticed, in the previous screenshot, that there isn't any obvious way to edit saved login information. To fix any stored usernames and passwords, tap back to the Safari settings, and then tap "Passwords" right above the AutoFill settings.

Keep in mind that AutoFill will automatically populate any forms on your devices, regardless of who is using them. Thus, you should only lend your devices to people you trust, or simply turn off AutoFill if someone else is going to be using your Mac, iPhone, or iPad.

One final note: user login details and credit cards are stored in your iCloud Keychain ( unless they're not set up to sync to iCloud ), so when you add, delete, or edit either of these items on any one device connected to your iCloud account, the information will be populated to your other devices.

Related: How to Sync Contacts, Reminders, and More with iCloud

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Worried about AutoFill Passwords not working on iOS?

With innovations in the Cloud system, you no longer have to worry about remembering important information such as passwords. If you’re an Apple user, the AutoFill Passwords feature does the job for you. But what if it suddenly stops working on your iOS device?

It’s easy to get dependent on the convenience of the feature. For this reason, when a bug prevents it from working, you may not have another way to access your Wi-Fi passwords, social logins, credit cards info, and so on.

Fortunately, there are a number of ways to fix system glitches and setting adjustments that can make your AutoFill Passwords feature functional again. If you want to know about these solutions, make sure to read this guide all the way through. At least one of them should work for you.

So without further ado, let’s run down various troubleshooting methods on iOS devices!

1. Ensure AutoFill Passwords Is Enabled.

The first step to identify why AutoFill Passwords does not work on your iPhone is to check if the feature is turned on in the first place. This can be done by searching through your settings.

Follow the steps below to do so:

• Begin by launching the Settings app on your iPhone.
• Then, go to Passwords & Accounts .
• From there, tap on AutoFill Passwords .
• If not already, turn on the toggle next to AutoFill Passwords to enable it.

Note that after turning the feature on for the first time, you’ll need to save each password after typing to save them for future use.

2. Ensure iCloud Keychain Is Enabled.

iCloud Keychain is Apple’s built-in password manager integrated with AutoFill Password. It lets you save your information across multiple devices. Data saved on one Apple device will be automatically available to all other devices logged in with the same iCloud account.

With that, you need to make sure this feature is enabled too so that you can access all your saved data, including passwords.

Here’s how to do it:

• First, open the Settings app on your iPhone.
• Next, click on your Profile .
• Then, tap on iCloud .
• After that, go to Keychain and make sure the toggle next to iCloud Keychain is green.

If the issue persists, move on to the following method.

3. Turn Off Private Browsing. 

Oftentimes, you’re unable to access saved passwords because you’re on incognito mode. When you’re using private browsing, Safari won’t save usernames, passwords, and other such information.

So when you’re facing an issue with the AutoFill, try disabling Private Browsing by following the steps below:

• To start, open Safari on your device.
• At the lower right corner, tap on the tabs icon .

• Then, from the options, tap Tabs . You can tell that the Private Browsing is turned off because the navigation buttons will be blue again.

After that, you’ll be back to using the regular browser. If you still can’t access saved data, learn how to fix Safari Passwords Missing or Gone on iPhone .

4. Enable AutoFill Toggles for Contact Info and Credit Cards.

The AutoFill feature allows you to select the specific information you want to save. If the feature’s access to your Contact Info and Credit Cards is disabled,  you may not be able to access your saved passwords.

To make sure that these toggles are turned on, follow these steps:

• Start by going to the Settings app.
• Then, go to Safari .
• From there, tap on AutoFill under General .

• Finally, switch the toggles on for Contact Info and Credit Cards .

5. Force Restart Your Device.

When the AutoFill Passwords is not working on iOS, a software glitch could be the culprit. With that, try restarting your device since that’s the easiest and quickest way to deal with this kind of situation. The force reboot method differs depending on the iPhone version. . 

Here’s what to do on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus:

• Press and hold the power button and home button simultaneously.
• Release it once the Apple logo appears on the screen.

For iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, follow the steps below:

• Press and hold the power button and volume down button at the same time.
• Release them once you see the Apple logo on the display.

If you own an iPhone 8 or the later versions, here’s how to do it:

• Press and quickly release the volume up button .
• Then, press and quickly release the volume down button .
• Lastly, press and hold the power button until the Apple logo appears on the screen.

6. Update Your iOS.

Older iOS versions are usually more prone to system bugs and glitches than the newer ones. This is why if you have a software update available, immediately install it on your device. 

Follow the steps below to download the latest iOS version available:

• First, tap on the Settings app to launch it.
• Then, go to General .
• From there, tap on Software Update .
• If an update is available, tap on Download and Install .

• When asked, enter your passcode to confirm.

Before updating, make sure your device is around at least 50% charged and is connected to Wi-Fi.

7. Factory Reset Your Device.

If all of the above procedures fail to solve the problem, your last option is to reset the device to factory settings. Note that this will erase the files in your iPhone. So, it’s best to back up all of your data on either iTunes or iCloud before performing a reset.

Then, follow the steps mentioned below:

• To begin, launch the Settings app on your device.
• Then, go to General and tap on Reset .
• From the given options, tap on Erase All Content and Settings .

• You’ll then be asked to enter your passcode for confirmation.

Once the reset is complete, set up your device and recover data from backup.

8. Use Third-Party Apps.

Apart from iCloud Keychain, there are other password managers you can download through the App Store. There’s a long list of such applications available, and a few aspects should be considered before selecting one.

Currently, almost all password managers offer AES-256 encryption along with two-factor authentication. But user interface and experience are just as important as security. The best password managers also include one-tap password change automation, secure password generation, and flagging of weak or duplicate passwords.

You should look for one that also provides password auto-filling and auto-saving, plug-ins for all browsers, syncing across devices, data import and export, and cross-platform apps. Popular choices among users are LastPass , Dashlane , 1Password , and Kaspersky .

To use these password managers, follow the steps below:

• To start, open the Settings app.
• Next, go to Passwords & Accounts .
• Then, tap on AutoFill Passwords and ensure the toggle is turned on.
• Now a list of third-party apps should appear under Allow Filling From . At this point, choose your desired password manager.

This was all on our guide regarding how to fix AutoFill Passwords not working on iOS. If you happen to have questions regarding the topic, be sure to leave a comment down below. We’ll do our best to assist you on the matter.

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Safari User Guide

• Get started
• Go to a website
• Bookmark webpages to revisit
• See your favorite websites
• Use tabs for webpages
• Import bookmarks and passwords
• Pay with Apple Pay
• Autofill credit card info
• View links from friends
• Keep a Reading List
• Hide ads when reading
• Translate a webpage
• Download items from the web
• Add passes to Wallet
• Save part or all of a webpage
• Print or create a PDF of a webpage
• Interact with text in a picture
• Change your homepage
• Customize a start page
• Create a profile
• Block pop-ups
• Make Safari your default web browser
• Hide your email address
• Manage cookies
• Clear your browsing history
• Browse privately
• Prevent cross-site tracking
• See who tried to track you
• Change Safari settings
• Keyboard and other shortcuts

If AutoFill doesn’t work in Safari on Mac

If you can’t fill in information you previously entered on websites, try these suggestions.

Open Safari for me

Make sure any information you want to autofill is saved in your My Card in Contacts. Safari can fill in only contact information that’s in Contacts. For example, if a form requires your phone number but it isn’t on your contact card, you must fill it in manually.

Make sure the webpage has fields AutoFill can complete.

Safari may be unable to tell which fields are for user name and password, credit card number and expiration date, and so forth.

If AutoFill still doesn’t work, the website may not allow it.

To turn AutoFill off, choose Safari > Settings, click AutoFill, then deselect the information you want to enter manually.

Here are two 1Password features you won’t find in iOS 18’s new Passwords app

Apple has a brand new Passwords app coming in iOS 18. Once users upgrade this fall to the latest OS versions across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and even Vision Pro, they’ll find the new Passwords app installed.

But while Passwords will offer lots of the functionality found in third-party options like 1Password (at least for personal use ), there are two specific 1Password features you won’t find in Apple’s Passwords app.

What’s missing from Apple’s Passwords app

Apple’s focus with the Passwords app is right there in the name: the app specializes in passwords. Beyond standard passwords, you’ll also find passkeys, wi-fi info, and verification codes in the app—however, in all these cases you’re still essentially dealing with the same category of data.

But as a longtime 1Password user, I’ve gotten used to keeping two additional data types in that app alongside my passwords:

• secure notes
• credit card info

You won’t find these in Apple’s Passwords app. If you stop and think about it, though, there’s a good reason for that.

Pairing Passwords with Apple’s Notes and Wallet apps

1Password’s secure notes and credit card features aren’t matched by Passwords, but that’s because Apple has alternative apps to meet those needs.

Apple Notes has long provided its secure notes feature, allowing you to lock a note and require Face ID or Touch ID authentication to open it. Notes is where Apple expects you to store any secure notes that might otherwise live in 1Password.

Similarly, the Wallet app is where your credit cards are stored. This only helps on the iPhone, but on Mac and iPad there’s Settings.

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"Similarly, the Wallet app is where your credit cards are stored. This only helps on the iPhone, but on Mac and iPad there’s Settings."

Credit card numbers are stored in Settings on the iPhone. Settings -> Safari -> AutoFill -> Saved Credit Cards.

It would be nice to not have to go into Safari AutoFill settings to get saved credit card numbers, but it's fine, since at least it's there on my phone so I can access it anytime, anywhere.

But this is where I think Apple’s approach with Passwords falls short.

Unfortunately, the Wallet and Settings apps often don’t contain your full credit card numbers like 1Password can. It varies by card, and you can always visit your banking app instead, but ideally you could visit one place to access all of that info. That’s why I’m still prone to keep my credit card info in 1Password.

Credit card info could be locked inside a secure note inside Notes, but I’d much rather get to it from Wallet if possible.

What do you think of Apple’s password-only approach with the Passwords app? Let us know in the comments.

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Autofill password on iPhone we can manually Access All Saved, edit, Delete or Add new details (Username and Password for Web page login, Autofill Credit Card Details for entering Payment Details). iCloud Keychain is only available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, WatchOS devices, But not Available on Cross-platform Like Windows and Android. To use Across Other devices, I recommend using 1Password. This is the Best Password Manager for All Mobile & Desktop platforms.

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Steps for Change by Enable or Disable Autofill Password on iPhone, iPad & Autofill Password Troubleshooting

Autofill Password Stopped and Not working on iPhone, iPad : Follow the below steps and Re-enable the toggle for Autofill password under the settings app on iOS/iPadOS.

Change Safari Settings:

• Open the Settings app.
• Scroll down and tap Password.

• Turn toggle On/Green next to the AutoFill Passwords

• That’s it.

If your iPhone password saves not working after followed the above troubleshooting, let’s go to the next solution.

Enable Autofill Credit Card Details on iPhone, iPad

Why? iCloud Keychain is used to Keeps the passwords and credit card information you saved up to date on the devices you approve. Your information is encrypted and cannot be read by Apple. Enable the Aurofill Credit card and Get all the details of your Credit card for quick payment. Go to the Settings app on iPhone and iPad > Safari > Autofill > Enable Toggle for Credit Cards .

How to Manage Saved iCloud Keychain Passwords on iPhone, iPad: Access, Update, Delete

To manage More Settings for Autofill Password : see just below this option ‘ Website & App Password ’. Here are all Saved Passwords for the different web forms that we used in the safari iPhone and iPad browser. To remove or Delete, Swiple to right on the list name and Tap on Delete to completely from Passwords & Accounts option .

For iOS 14 or later: Settings app > Passwords > There you’ll find the list of all passwords.

For iOS 13 or earlier:

• Settings app on iPhone/iPad > Passwords & Accounts > Website & App Passwords > See the List of All Passwords.

To make changes in these settings, verify your face id on iPhone X or Later or Touch ID or Passcode on iPhone 8 and earlier.

• See all accounts, with URL, Username , and Password .

Add new autofill password webpage login or app

• Tap on “ + ” and Enter the correct login page URL and username and password .
• To Delete or remove website password : Tap on edit from the top right corner of the screen. Select web address and tap to delete option. or Swipe to right on a name from the list, Tap on Delete to completely remove.

Alternate App for Use Autofill Passwords on iPhone: Best For Android & Windows

Alternatively, we can allow access and use the saved usernames and passwords from a third-party website. The restriction is under the settings app on the iPhone and iPad. Here’s the option. and Allow to use from the third-party app directly, That’s installed on your iOS and iPadOS. 1Password is the best Alternative of iCloud Keychain to use on Android Mobiles and Windows computers.

For iOS 14 or later: Settings app > Passwords. 

• Settings app on iPhone/iPad >Passwords & Accounts > Autofill Passwords > under the Allow Filling From choosing
• App name, here’s 1Password . Keep this option selected.

Enable iCloud Keychain on MacBook Mac, Aufill Password Not Working on Mac

iCloud Keychain stores username and password directly in your iCloud account. That can be accessible on all Apple Devices that signed into the same apple account or Apple ID. Here’s my mac also using the same Apple ID so I can get all saved iCloud Keychain Username and Password on Mac Safari browser. Let’s check how to use and Sync iCloud Keychain username and password details of all websites on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

macOS Ventura:-

macOS Monterey:-

• Go to Top Mac Menu and Click on Apple Logo.
• Next, click on the System Preferences option.
• Now, Click on Apple ID .

• Then, From the Side panel select iCloud and Enable option “Keychain” with a checked box .

• That’s it

Enable Autofill Option under the Safari on macOS: User Names and Password, Credit Cards

Here are the other important settings that we can restrict from save a new or use Saved Login details and Credit card details under the safari preferences.

• Open Safari on MacBook, Mac .
• From the top menu, Safari > Preferences . [On MacOS Ventura: Safari > Settings ]

• Click on Autofill tab option and Select checkbox for User Names and password, Credit Cards as well . More customizations we can go with the Edit option given next to the options.

I hope you get a new settings tip on autofill password on iPhone and iPad, Mac Computer.

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All your credentials in one place.

From passwords to verifications and security alerts, find them all securely stored in the Passwords app.

Backed by secure end-to-end encryption and seamless syncing, the Passwords app safely stores all your credentials. It lets you filter and sort accounts by recently created, credential type, or whether an account is in a shared group, to quickly find accounts you’re looking for.

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Works across Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Vision Pro, and Windows.

Access the Passwords app on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro, and on Windows with the iCloud for Windows app. All the passwords sync securely across your devices, and if you use AutoFill, your passwords will automatically be added to the Passwords app.

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Safari for visionOS 2 beta supports the new WebXR transient-pointer input mode. It lets you make the most of natural input on visionOS, and allow your users to interact with a look and a pinch.

If you want to animate a 3D model of the user’s hands, Safari for visionOS 2 beta also includes support for WebXR hand tracking . To ensure privacy, permission to allow hand tracking will be requested from users at the start of their WebXR session.

Learn all about WebXR on visionOS 2 beta by watching Build immersive web experiences with WebXR at WWDC24, available Wednesday June 12. And learn more about transient-pointer input mode by reading Introducing natural input for WebXR in Apple Vision Pro .

View Transitions

WebKit added support for the View Transitions API in Safari 18 beta. It provides an optimized browser API to animate elements from one state to another. Safari supports the CSS View Transitions Module Level 1 specification that adds new CSS properties and pseudo-elements for defining transition animations, along with a new browser API to start transition animations and react to different transition states. It works by capturing the current (old) state of the page and applying an animated transition to the new state. By default, the browser applies a cross-fade between the states.

Call the document.startViewTransition() method to initiate the capture. You can pass a callback function as the first argument to make DOM state changes between the old and new captures. The method returns a ViewTransition object which contains promises that can be used to track when the view transition starts or ends.

Once the states are captured, a pseudo-element tree is built which can be targeted with CSS, allowing you to modify the CSS animations used for the transitions. The animations out of the old page state and into the new page state can be modified via the ::view-transition-new(*) and ::view-transition-old(*) selectors. You can also ask the browser to independently track state changes for a specific element by naming it with the CSS view-transition-name property. You can then use the pseudo-element to customize animations for it.

The example below demonstrates state management with tabbed navigation. Each tab view has a custom transition animation out and a subtly different animation in, while the tabs themselves rely on the default page transition.

Style Queries

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for Style Queries when testing CSS Custom Properties. Similar to how developers can use Sass mixins, Style Queries can be used to define a set of reusable styles that get applied as a group.

Here, if the --background custom property is set to black, then certain styles will be applied — in this case to make the headline and paragraph text color white.

Don’t forget to pay attention the HTML structure. By default, Style Queries reference the styles on the direct parent element. You can create a different reference through the use of Container Query names.

currentcolor and system color keywords in Relative Color Syntax

Support for Relative Color Syntax shipped in Safari 16.4 . It lets you define colors in a more dynamic fashion, creating a new color from an existing color. The value lch(from var(--color) calc(L / 2) C H) for instance uses the lch color space to take the variable --color and calculate a new color that’s half its lightness, calc(L / 2) .

Now, starting in WebKit for Safari 18 beta, you can reference the currentcolor or a system color keyword as you define the new color. For example, this code will set the background color to be the same color as the text color, only 4 times lighter, as calculated in the oklch color space.

Being able to reference system color keywords opens up another world of options. System colors are like variables that represent the default colors established by the OS, browser, or user — defaults that change depending on whether the system is set to light mode, dark mode, high contrast mode, etc. For example, canvas represents the current default background color of the HTML page, while fieldtext matches the color of text inside form fields. Find the full list of system colors in CSS Color level 4 .

Relative Color Syntax lets you define dynamic connections between colors in your CSS, lessening the need to control color through variables in a tightly-regimented design system. Learn more about Relative Color Syntax by watching this portion of What’s new in CSS from WWDC23.

Animating display

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for transition animation of the display property.

Many developers are excited to use @starting-style along with transition-behavior and display: none interpolation. WebKit for Safari 17.4 added general support for transition-behavior , including transition-behavior: allow-discrete . WebKit for Safari 17.5 added support for @starting-style , letting you define starting values for transitioning an element as it’s created (or re-created). Now in WebKit for Safari 18 beta, you can use these features together to transition the display property.

Shaping interaction regions on visionOS

As a web developer, you’re very familiar with how link styling works on the web. For decades you’ve been able to use CSS to style text-decoration , color and more for :link , :hover , :active , and :visited states. You’ve also been able to adjust the size of the invisible tap target through use of padding.

Apple Vision Pro adds a new dimension to how links work — tap targets are visible on visionOS. Anytime a user looks at an interactive element, it’s highlighted to let them know that it can be tapped. And you as a designer or developer can intentionally design how an interaction region looks. You may want to add padding, for instance, or even a rounded corner to the otherwise invisible box.

Now in Safari in visionOS 2 beta, when you use CSS clip-path to change the shape of tappable area of a link, the visible interaction region will change shape as well. Interactive UI elements built with SVG will also be highlighted with the proper shape. Learn more by watching Optimize for the spatial web at WWDC24, available Tuesday June 11.

Backdrop Filter

Originally shipped in Safari 9.0, backdrop filter provides a way to apply graphics effects to the content behind a particular element. You can apply backdrop-filter to a headline, for example, and everything behind the headline will be blurred, or have decreased saturation, or increased contrast. Any of the filter functions from SVG can be used — blur() , brightness() , contrast() , drop-shadow() , grayscale() , hue-rotate() , invert() , opacity() , saturate() , and sepia() .

For many years, backdrop filter only worked in Safari. It was available when you prefixed the property with -webkit-backdrop-filter . Now, starting in Safari 18 beta, you don’t need the prefix. We also improved our implementation, fixing bugs and boosting interoperability.

This demo shows eight different filters and what you might do with each one alone. You can, of course, combine filters to create even more interesting results. With backdrop filter supported in Safari since 2015, Edge since 2018, Chrome since 2019, Samsung Internet since 2020, and Firefox since 2022, this is a great time to consider the kind of graphic design possibilities it enables.

safe in Flexbox

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for the safe keyword for alignment in Flexbox. This provides a mechanism for refining how flex items overflow. Let’s look at an example of a simple navigation menu — a classic use of Flexbox.

The following CSS creates a simple layout that wraps when there’s not enough space on one line for the menu, while centering the items in the available space.

By default, justify-content: center will always keep the items centered, even when the content is overflowing the containing box. You might prefer, however, that the content not be centered when it overflows — being centered cuts off both the beginning and end of the word, making the content harder to understand when the overflow is not visible.

The safe keyword lets you change how alignment works when content overflows. The justify-content: safe center rule will instead start align any item that is overflowing, while continuing to center the items that are not overflowing.

If you want to override the safe keyword, you can use unsafe . The justify-content: unsafe center rule will do the same thing as justify-content: center . The unsafe keyword has been supported in WebKit for Safari for quite some time.

Content visibility

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for content-visibility . This property controls whether or not an element renders its contents in a fashion that’s useful for making performance optimizations. It lets you communicate to the browser that certain portions of the page will likely be initially offscreen, and suggest they be omitted from layout and rendering. This can make the page load faster.

Last year , we added support for web apps in macOS Sonoma. You can add any website to your dock — whether or not it was built with a Manifest file, Service Worker, or other technology to customize the web app experience. Go to the site in Safari, then File > Add to Dock… where you can customize the icon, change the name, and even clean up the URL. Then, just click on the web app icon in your Dock, and it will open as an app.

This year brings two improvements to web apps on Mac.

Opening links

macOS Sequoia beta adds support for opening links directly in web apps. Now, when a user clicks a link, if it matches the scope of a web app that the user has added to their Dock, that link will open in the web app instead of their default web browser.

For example, imagine you have added MDN Web Docs to the Dock. Then a colleague sends you a link to an MDN page in Messages, Mail, Slack, Discord, IRC, or any non-browser application on your Mac. Now when you click on that link, it will open in the MDN Web Docs web app instead of your default browser.

Clicking a link within a browser will maintain the current behavior. This feature only affects links opened elsewhere. (When a user is in Safari, clicking on a link that matches the scope of a web app that is added to Dock, they will see an “Open in web app” banner, unless they have previously dismissed the banner.)

By default, this behavior applies when the link matches the host of the web page used to create the web app. As a developer, you can refine this experience by defining the range of URLs that should open in the web app with the scope member in the web app manifest .

Extension support

Now you can personalize web apps on Mac with Safari Web Extensions and Content Blockers. Navigate to the web app’s Settings menu to access all your installed Content Blockers and Web Extensions. Any enabled in Safari will be on by default in the web app. Each web app is uniquely customizable, just like Safari profiles.

Safari 18 beta also adds support for Mobile Device Management of extension enabled state, private browsing state, and website access on managed devices. This means schools and businesses that manage iOS, iPadOS, or macOS devices can now include the configuration of Safari App Extensions, Content Blockers, and Web Extensions in their management.

One of the amazing experiences you can have on Apple Vision Pro is looking at spatial photos and panoramas. When you open the Photos app in visionOS, you see a montage of your photos. Tap an image, it appears alone in a floating frame in front of you, while the rest of the app disappears.

A spatial photo appears at just the right height and viewing angle to make it feel like you’ve gone back to a moment in time. A second tap of the UI breaks it out of the frame, as it grows and becomes even more immersive. Similarly, a panorama floats in a frame on first tap. Then on second tap of the UI, it expands to wrap all around you, creating a fully immersive experience.

Now in Safari 18 for visionOS 2 beta, you can use the Fullscreen API to create the same experience on the web. You can embed the photo in a web page, and provide the ability to tap. The photo will pop into a floating frame as the Safari window disappears. Then when the user taps on the spatial photo or panorama UI that visionOS provides, the photo will further expand to create a fully immersive experience. When they exit the image, the Safari window will return.

Let’s walk through how to support experiencing a spatial photo or panorama on the web using Fullscreen API. First, include the image on your web page using any of the techniques we’ve used on the web for years. Here, we can embed a flattened panoramic photo into the web page using simple HTML.

Then using JavaScript, we’ll trigger .requestFullscreen() on tap. Perhaps like this.

You could, of course, create your own UI for the user to tap, rather than making the entire photo the tap target.

Spatial images work just the same, although it’s likely we want to provide fallbacks for browsers that do not support HEIC files . We can do so with the picture element.

Spatial images are stereoscopic, with both a left and right channel. In Safari, when the image is embedded in the web page, the browser will show the left channel. And there’s no need to worry about providing a fallback of any sort for Safari on macOS, iOS, or iPadOS — the stereoscopic HEIC file works great.

This technique will also cause images to go fullscreen in any browser that supports Fullscreen API. Learn more about adding panorama and spatial photos to your websites by watching Optimize for the spatial web at WWDC24, available Tuesday June 11.

Writing Suggestions

At last year’s WWDC, Apple unveiled inline predictive text on iOS, iPadOS, macOS and more. It helps users input text faster by predicting what they might be typing and finishing the word, phrase or even a whole sentence when the user taps the space bar. Now, WebKit for Safari 18 beta on iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma brings inline predictive text to the web.

While inline predictive text makes for a fantastic, personalized user experience, there might be specific situations on the web where it’s better to not have predictions. WebKit for Safari 18 beta on iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma gives web developers the opportunity to disable inline predictions through the writingsuggestions attribute. By default, writing suggestions is set to true. You can turn off the capability by including the writingsuggestions="false" attribute on any type of text input field.

WebKit for Safari on iOS 18 beta adds haptic feedback for <input type=checkbox switch> . This means, now when a user taps a switch control on iPhone, a single tap is felt — just like how toggling a switch feels in Settings app on iOS. Try this demo to see what it’s like.

Date and time inputs

WebKit for Safari 18 beta on macOS improves accessibility support for date and time input field types. Now <input type="date"> , <input type="datetime-local"> , and <input type="time"> elements work properly with VoiceOver.

Usually elements have the labels they need, but sometimes there is no text label for a particular button or UI. In this situation, ARIA can be used to provide an accessible label. The aria-label attribute provides names of labels while aria-roledescription provides the description for the role of an element.

On very rare occasions, you may need to override aria-label or aria-roledescription to provide different names or descriptions specifically for braille. The aria-braillelabel and aria-brailleroledescription attributes provide such an ability. They exist to solve very specific needs, including educational contexts where the site needs to render the specific braille table dot pattern. If you do use braille-related ARIA attributes, be sure to test them using a braille reader. If in doubt, relying on the accessible name from content or aria-label / aria-roledescription is almost always the better user experience . WebKit has supported these ARIA attributes for years.

Now, WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for the ariaBrailleLabel and ariaBrailleRoleDescription element reflection properties. These make it possible to get and set the aria-braillelabel and aria-brailleroledescription ARIA attributes on DOM elements directly via JavaScript APIs, rather than by using setAttribute and getAttribute .

Watch video without distractions in Viewer for Safari 18 beta on macOS.

When you play in Viewer, the video fills the Safari window, while providing full access to system playback controls. Then it automatically enters picture-in-picture anytime you switch tabs, close the window, or occlude the web page with another window. Look for Video Viewer in the new page menu in Safari whenever you are on a web page with a prominent video element.

Video on visionOS

Managed Media Source

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds Workers support for both Managed Media Source (MMS) and Media Source Extensions ( MSE ). This can be especially helpful on complex websites that want to ensure continuous and smooth video playback even when other site activity (such as live commenting) causes a very busy main thread. You can see the performance difference in this demo .

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for the WebRTC HEVC RFC 7789 RTP Payload Format. Previously, the WebRTC HEVC used generic packetization instead of RFC 7789 packetization. This payload format provides a new option for improving videoconferencing, video streaming, and delivering high-bitrate movies and TV shows.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for MediaStreamTrack processing in a dedicated worker. And it adds support for missing WebRTC stats.

Two years ago at WWDC22, we announced support for passkeys — a groundbreaking industry-standard way to login to websites and app services. Passkeys provide people with an extremely easy user experience, while delivering a profound increase in security. To learn more, watch Meet Passkeys or read Supporting passkeys .

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for three new features as we continue to improve passkeys. First, Safari 18 beta adds support for using mediation=conditional for web authentication credential creation. This allows websites to automatically upgrade existing password-based accounts to use passkeys. Learn more by watching Streamline sign-in with passkey upgrades and credential managers at WWDC24, available on Tuesday, June 11.

Second, WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for using passkeys across related origins. This lets websites use the same passkey across a limited number of domains which share a credential backend.

And third, WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for the WebAuthn prf extension. It allows for retrieving a symmetric key from a passkey to use for the encryption of user data.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for secure HTTPS for all images, video, and audio by upgrading passive subresource requests in mixed content settings. This means that if some files for a website are served using HTTPS and some are served using HTTP (known as “mixed content”), all images and media will now be auto-upgraded to HTTPS, in adherence with Mixed Content Level 2 .

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for Unicode 15.1.0 characters in RegExp. Unicode 15.1 added 627 characters, bringing the total of characters to 149,813. Now, these new characters can be used in regular expressions.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta also adds support for the v flag with RegExp.prototype[Symbol.matchAll] . providing more powerful ways to match Unicode characters, as specified in the ECMAScript 2024 standard.

For example, you can now specify to only match on Latin characters, while avoiding matching on Cyrillic script characters.

Or split a string matching on Emojis.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for URL.parse() , a way to parse URLs which returns null rather than an exception when parsing fails.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta expands Declarative Shadow tree support by adding the shadowRootDelegatesFocus and shadowRootClonable IDL attributes to the <template> element. It also adds the shadowRootSerializable attribute and shadowRootSerializable IDL attribute to the <template> element, enabling those using Declarative Shadow roots to opt into making them serializable. Serializing can be done through the new getHTML() method that has been added at the same time.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for PopStateEvent ’s hasUAVisualTransition , indicating whether the user agent has a visual transition in place for the fragment navigation.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for subresource integrity in imported module scripts, which gives cryptographic assurances about the integrity of contents of externally-hosted module scripts.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for the bytes() method to the Request, Response , Blob , and PushMessageData objects. This replaces the need for web developers to call arrayBuffer() , which can be difficult to use, and wraps the result in a Uint8Array . Calling bytes() is now the recommended way going forward when you need to access the underlying bytes of the data these objects represent.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for feature detecting text fragments by exposing document.fragmentDirective . Note that the returned object (a FragmentDirective ) doesn’t provide any functionality, but it’s helpful if you need to know if Fragment Directives are supported by the browser.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for the willReadFrequently context attribute for the getContext() method. It indicates whether or not a lot of read-back operations are planned. It forces the use of a software accelerated 2D or offscreen canvas, instead of hardware accelerated. This can improve performance when calling getImageData() frequently.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta extends 2D canvas support for currentcolor . It can now be used inside color-mix() or Relative Color Syntax. Here currentcolor will default to the computed color property value on the canvas element.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for six new WebGL extensions:

• EXT_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge
• WEBGL_render_shared_exponent
• WEBGL_stencil_texturing
• EXT_render_snorm
• OES_sample_variables
• OES_shader_multisample_interpolation

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for fuzzy search code completion in the Web Inspector’s CSS source editor.

WebKit for iOS 18 beta, iPadOS 18 beta, visionOS 2 beta, and macOS Sequoia beta adds support for two new API — the Writing Tools API and an API to control adaptive image glyph insertion. Learn more about these API by watching Get started with Writing Tools and Bring expression to your app with Genmoji at WWDC24, both available Tuesday June 11.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta adds support for Apple Pay funds transfer.

While it’s rare to deprecate older technology from the web, there are occasions when it makes sense. We’ve been busy removing -webkit prefixed properties that were never standardized, aging media formats that were never supported in other browsers, and more. This helps align browser engines, improve interoperability, and prevent compatibility problems by reducing the possibility that a website depends on something that’s not a web standard.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta removes support for OffscreenCanvasRenderingContext2D ’s commit() method.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta deprecates support for a number of rarely used -webkit prefixed CSS pseudo-classes and properties — and even one -khtml prefixed property.

• -webkit-alt and alt properties
• :-webkit-animating-full-screen-transition pseudo-class
• :-webkit-full-screen-ancestor pseudo-class
• :-webkit-full-screen-controls-hidden pseudo-class
• :-webkit-full-page-media pseudo-class
• :-webkit-full-screen-document pseudo-class
• :-khtml-drag pseudo-class

WebKit for Safari 18 beta also deprecates support for the resize: auto rule. Support for the resize property remains, just as it’s been since Safari 4. The values Safari continues to support include : none , both , horizontal , vertical , block , inline , plus the global values. Early versions of CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3 defined auto , but it was later written out of the web standard.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta also deprecates support for non-standardize WEBKIT_KEYFRAMES_RULE and WEBKIT_KEYFRAME_RULE API in CSSRule .

WebKit for Safari 18 beta removes support for the JPEG2000 image format. Safari was the only browser to ever provide support.

If you’ve been serving JPEG2000 files using best practices, then your site is using the picture element to offer multiple file format options to every browser. Safari 18 beta will simply no longer choose JPEG2000, and instead use a file compressed in JPEG XL, AVIF, WebP, HEIC, JPG/JPEG, PNG, or Gif — choosing the file that’s best for each user. Only one image will be downloaded when you use <picture> , and the browser does all the heavy lifting.

We have noticed that some Content Deliver Networks (CDN) use User Agent sniffing to provide one file to each UA, offering only JPEG2000 images to Safari — especially on iPhone and iPad. If you expect this might be happening with your site, we recommend testing in Safari 18 beta on both macOS Sequoia and iOS or iPadOS 18. If you see problems, contact your SaaS provider or change your image delivery settings to ensure your website provides fallback images using industry best practices.

If you notice a broken site, please file an issue at webcompat.com .

WebKit for Safari 18 beta removes support for non-standard VTTRegion.prototype.track .

WebKit for Safari 18 beta removes the last bits of support for AppCache.

When AppCache first appeared in 2009, in Safari 4, it held a lot of promise as a tool for caching web pages for use offline. It was imagined as “HTML5 Application Cache” back when HTML itself was being further expanded to handle more use cases for web applications. A developer could create a simple cache manifest file with a list of files to be cached. Its simplicity looked elegant, but there was no mechanism for cache busting, and that made both developing a site and evolving the site over time quite frustrating. AppCache also had security challenges. So new web standards were created to replace it. Today, developers use Service Workers and Cache Storage instead.

WebKit deprecated AppCache with a warning to the Console in Safari 11.0. Then in 2021, we removed support for AppCache from Safari 15.0, with a few exceptions for third-party users of WKWebView . Now we are removing those exceptions. This change to WebKit will only affect the rare web content loaded in older third-party apps that have JavaScript code which relies on the existence of AppCache related interfaces.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta removes the SVGAnimateColorElement interface.

WebKit for Safari 18 beta removes support for four non-standard Web APIs:

• KeyboardEvent.altGraphKey
• AES-CFB support from WebCrypto
• KeyboardEvent.prototype.keyLocation
• HashChangeEvent ’s non-standard initHashChangeEvent() method

In addition to all the new features, WebKit for Safari 18 beta includes work to polish existing features.

Accessibility

• Fixed role assignment for <header> inside <main> and sectioning elements.
• Fixed range input not firing an input event when incremented or decremented via accessibility APIs.
• Fixed setting aria-hidden on a slot not hiding the slot’s assigned nodes.
• Fixed comboboxes to expose their linked objects correctly.
• Fixed time input accessibility by adding labels to subfields.
• Fixed aria-hidden=true to be ignored on the <body> and <html> elements.
• Fixed datetime values being exposed to assistive technologies in the wrong timezone.
• Fixed time control accessibility by adding a label to the meridiem component.
• Fixed wrong datetime value being exposed to assistive technologies for datetime-local inputs.
• Fixed ignored CSS content property replacement text when it is an empty string.
• Fixed the computed role for these elements: dd , details , dt , em , hgroup , option , s , and strong .
• Fixed hidden elements targeted by aria-labelledby to expose their entire subtree text, not just their direct child text.
• Fixed accessible name computation for elements with visibility: visible inside a container with visibility: hidden .
• Fixed updating table accessibility text when its caption dynamically changes.
• Fixed updating aria-describedby text after the targeted element changes its subtree.
• Fixed the transition property to produce the shortest serialization.
• Fixed the animation property to produce the shortest serialization.

Authentication

• Fixed navigator.credentials.create() rejects with “NotAllowedError: Operation Failed” after a conditional UI request is aborted.
• Fixed renaming DigitalCredential’s response attribute to data .
• Fixed setting the cancel flag once the cancel completes regardless of a subsequent request occurring.
• Fixed drawImage(detachedOffscreenCanvas) to throw an exception.
• Fixed OffscreenCanvas failing to render to the placeholder with nested workers.
• Fixed losing the contents layer of the placeholder canvas of OffscreenCanvas when switching off the tab.
• Fixed drawImage to not alter the input source or the destination rectangles.
• Fixed toggling the visibility on a canvas parent undoing the effect of clearRect() .
• Fixed the Canvas drawImage() API to throw an exception when the image is in broken state.
• Fixed setting white-space to a non-default value dynamically on a whitespace or a new line.
• Fixed turning text-spacing properties into font properties.
• Fixed custom counter styles extending disclosure-open and disclosure-closed to point to the correct direction in right-to-left.
• Fixed backface-visibility to create a stacking context and containing block.
• Fixed getComputedStyle() to work with functional pseudo-elements like ::highlight() .
• Fixed: Aliased :-webkit-full-screen pseudo-class to :fullscreen .
• Fixed: Aliased :-webkit-any-link to :any-link and :matches() to :is() .
• Fixed getComputedStyle() pseudo-element parsing to support the full range of CSS syntax.
• Fixed @supports to correctly handle support for some -webkit prefixed pseudo-elements that were incorrectly treated as unsupported.
• Fixed updating media-query sensitive meta tags after style changes.
• Fixed changing color scheme to update gradients with system colors or light-dark() .
• Fixed incorrect inline element size when using font-variant-caps: all-small-caps with font-synthesis .
• Fixed :empty selector to work with animations.
• Fixed preserving whitespace when serializing custom properties.
• Fixed updating style correctly for non-inherited custom property mutations.
• Fixed element removed by parent to end up losing the last remembered size.
• Fixed an incorrect difference between implicit and explicit initial values for custom properties.
• Fixed the contrast of Menu and MenuText system colors.
• Fixed keeping the shorthand value for CSS gap as-is in serialized and computed values.
• Fixed the style adjuster for @starting-style incorrectly invoking with a null element.
• Fixed excluding -apple-pay-button from applying to any element that supports appearance: auto and is not a button.
• Fixed missing color interpretation methods added to CSS color specifications.
• Fixed hsl() and hsla() implementation to match the latest spec changes.
• Fixed the implementation of rgb() and rgba() to match the latest spec.
• Fixed the hwb() implementation to match the latest spec.
• Fixed the remaining color types to be synced with the latest spec changes.
• Fixed carrying analogous components forward when interpolating colors
• Fixed applying the fill layer pattern for mask-mode .
• Fixed displayed datalist dropdown to sync its options elements after a DOM update.
• Fixed <select multiple> scrollbars to match the used color scheme.
• Fixed updating the input value when selecting an <option> from a <datalist> element.
• Fixed the value attribute not getting displayed in an input element with type="email" and the multiple attribute.
• Fixed the iOS animation for <input type=checkbox switch> .
• Fixed form controls drawing with an active appearance when the window is inactive.
• Fixed constructed FormData object to not include entries for the image button submitter by default.
• Fixed the properties of History to throw a SecurityError when not in a fully active Document.
• Fixed “about:blank” document.referrer initialization.
• Fixed parsing a self-closing SVG script element. It now successfully executes.
• Fixed RegExp.prototype.@@split to update the following legacy RegExp static properties: RegExp.input , RegExp.lastMatch , RegExp.lastParen , RegExp.leftContext , RegExp.rightContext , and RegExp.$1, ... RegExp.$9 .
• Fixed String.prototype.replace to not take the fast path if the pattern is RegExp Object and the lastIndex is not numeric. (
• Fixed spec compliance for Async / Await, Generators, Async Functions, and Async Generators.
• Fixed async functions and generators to properly handle promises with throwing “constructor” getter.
• Fixed return in async generators to correctly await its value.
• Fixed Symbol.species getters to not share a single JS Function.
• Fixed throwing a RangeError if Set methods are called on an object with negative size property.
• Fixed eval() function from another realm to not cause a direct eval call.
• Fixed eval() call with ...spread syntaxt to be a direct call.
• Fixed try/catch to not intercept errors originated in [[Construct]] of derived class.
• direct eval() in a default value expression inside a rest parameter creates a variable in the environment of the function rather than the separate one of the parameters;
• a ReferenceError is thrown when accessing a binding, which is defined inside rest parameter, in eval() , or a closure created in a default value expression of a preceding parameter, but only if there is a var binding by the same name;
• a closure, created in the default value expression inside a rest parameter, is created in a different VariableEnvironment of the function than its counterparts in preceding parameters which causes the incorrect environment to be consulted when querying or modifying parameter names that are “shadowed” by var bindings.
• Fixed TypedArray sorting methods to have a special-case for camparator returning false .
• Fixed programming style for bitwise and in setExpectionPorts.
• Fixed emitReturn() to load this value from arrow function lexical environment prior to the TDZ check.
• Fixed NFKC normalization to work with Latin-1 characters.
• Fixed parsing of private names with Unicode start characters.
• Fixed instanceof to not get RHS prototype when LHS is primitive.
• Fixed bracket update expression to resolve property key at most once.
• Fixed bracket compound assignement to resolve the property key at most once.
• Fixed Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy to work for non-objects.
• Fixed Array.fromAsync to not call the Array constructor twice.
• Fixed inconsistent output of Function.prototype.toString for accessor properties.
• Fixed Set#symmetricDifference to call this.has in each iteration.
• Fixed logical assignment expressions to throw a syntax error when the left side of the assignment is a function call.
• Fixed throwing a syntax error for nested duplicate-named capturing groups in RegEx.
• Fixed ArrayBuffer and SharedArrayBuffer constructor to check length before creating an instance.
• Fixed Intl implementation to ensure canonicalizing “GMT” to “UTC” based on a spec update.
• Fixed RegEx lookbehinds differing from v8.
• Fixed fractionalDigits of Intl.DurationFormat to be treated as at most 9 digits if it is omitted.
• Fixed navigator.cookieEnabled to return false when cookies are blocked.
• Fixed video sound coming from another window after changing tabs in the Tab Bar in visionOS.
• Fixed playback for MSE videos on some sites.
• Fixed allowing a video’s currentTime to be further than the gap’s start time.
• Fixed broken audio playback for a WebM file with a Vorbis track.
• Fixed sampleRate and numberOfChanges to be required and non-zero in a valid AudioEncoderConfig.
• Fixed media elements appending the same media segment twice.
• Fixedrejecting valid NPT strings if ‘hours’ is defined using 1 digit.
• Fixed an issue where Safari audio may be emitted from the wrong window in visionOS.
• Fixed upgrading inactive or passive subresource requests and fetches in would-be mixed security contexts to match standards.
• Fixed incorrect Sec-Fetch-Site value for navigation of a nested document.
• Fixed loading WebArchives with a non-persistent datastore.
• Fixed Timing-Allow-Origin to not apply to an HTTP 302 response.
• Fixed print buttons with a print action implementation.
• Fixed Open in Preview for a PDF with a space in its name.
• Fixed Greek uppercase transforms failing for some characters.
• Fixed resizing a <textarea> element with 1rem padding.
• Fixed the color correctness of the color matrix filter.
• Fixed backdrop-filter to apply to the border area of an element with a border-radius .
• Fixed intrinsic inline size calculators to account for whitespace before an empty child with nonzero margins.
• Fixed overlapping elements with flex box when height: 100% is applied on nested content.
• Fixed incorrect grid item positioning with out-of-flow sibling.
• Fixed break-word with a float discarding text.
• Fixed min-content calculation for unstyled only-child inlines elements.
• Fixed ellipsis rendering multiple times when position: relative and top are used.
• Fixed a bug for inline elements inserted in reverse order after a block in a continuation.
• Fixed the flash of a page background-colored bar in the footer when the window is resized.
• Fixed the cursor not updating as content scrolls under it on some pages.
• Fixed the SVG parser to interpret “form feed” as white space.
• Fixed error handling for invalid filter primitive references.
• Fixed displaying an SVG element inside a <switch> element.
• Fixed SVG title to have display: none as the default UA style rule.
• Fixed the UA stylesheet for links in SVGs to apply cursor: pointer matching standards.
• Fixed returning the initial value for the SVG gradient stop-color if it is not rendered in the page.
• Fixed the SVG marker segment calculations if the marker path consists of sub-paths.
• Fixed SVGLength to sync with the WebIDL specification.

Web Animations

• Fixed percentage transform animations when width and height are animated.
• Fixed updating an animation when changing the value of a transform property while that property is animated with an implicit keyframe.
• Fixed animating with color-mix .
• Fixed cssText setter to change the style attribute when the serialization differs.
• Fixed history.pushState() and history.replaceState() to ignore the title argument.
• Fixed URL text fragment directives not fully stripped from JavaScript.
• Fixed showPicker() method to trigger suggestions from a datalist .
• Fixed lang attribute in no namespace to only apply to HTML and SVG elements.
• Fixed unnecessarily unsetting the iframe fullscreen flag.
• Fixed DOM Range to correctly account for CDATASection nodes.
• Fixed getGamepads() to no longer trigger an insecure contexts warning.
• Fixed inserting a <picture> element displaying the same image twice.
• Fixed throwing exceptions in navigation methods if in a detached state.
• Fixed a minor issue in URL’s host setter.
• Fixed cloning of ShadowRoot nodes following a DOM Standard clarification.
• Fixed GeolocationCoordinates to expose a toJSON() method.
• Fixed GeolocationPosition to expose a toJSON() method.
• Fixed setting CustomEvent.target when dispatching an event.
• Fixed navigator.language only returning the system language in iOS 17.4.
• Fixed: Removed presentational hints from the width attribute for <hr> .
• Fixed resolving www. sub-domain for Associated Domains for all web apps.

Web Assembly

• Fixed initialization of portable reference typed globals.
• Fixed font sizes in the Audits tab.
• Fixed expanded sections of Storage to not collapse
• Fixed CSS font property values marked !important not getting overridden when using the interactive editing controls.
• Fixed an issue where the Web Inspector viewport might appear cut off.
• Fixed runtimes to be aligned in the Audit tab.
• Fixed remembering the message type selection in the Console tab.
• Fixed autocomplete for the text-indent property suggesting prefixed properties instead of each-line or hanging .
• Fixed background autocompletion suggestion to include repeating-conic-gradient .
• Fixed console clearing unexpectedly when Web Inspector reopens
• Fixed console code completion to be case-insensitive.
• Fixed overflow: scroll elements to scroll as expected when highlighting an element from the DOM tree.
• Fixed showing additional Safari tabs from an iOS device in the Develop menu.
• Fixed Console and code editor completion not auto-scrolling the suggestion into view.
• Fixed search in the DOM tree view unexpectedly chaning the text display.
• Fixed clicking the “goto” arrow for computed CSS when “show independent Styles sidebar” is disabled.
• Fixed inspectable tabs from Safari in the visionOS Simulator don’t appear in Developer menu on the host macOS.
• Fixed Gamepad API in WKWebView.
• Fixed repainting HTML elements when their width or height change in legacy WebView.
• Fixed VideoTrackGenerator writer to close when its generator track (and all its clones) are stopped.
• Fixed WebRTC AV1 HW decoding on iPhone 15 Pro.
• Fixed black stripes with screen sharing windows.
• Fixed black stripes with getDisplayMedia captured windows when the window is resized.

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Safari doesn't autofill codes sent through messages

In previous version of MacOS Safari used to offer to autofill codes sent through messages. After the update to macOS version 12.3 it stopped to offer the autofill.

Could it be a bug or some setting that needs to be adjusted? The autofill was very convenient, especially for the apps that I log into on daily basis and require second means of authentication.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.3

Posted on Mar 31, 2022 3:54 PM

Posted on Apr 1, 2022 2:40 PM

Hello, stefanfromkaty.

It sounds like you want to Autofill security codes from your iPhone in Safari on Mac. If so, please follow these steps:

Set up Text Message Forwarding on your iPhone On your iPhone, go to Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding.Tap your Mac.

Autofill security codes on your Mac In the Safari app  on your Mac, sign in to a webpage that typically sends a security code to your iPhone.When you’re prompted to enter the security code, Safari provides the information on your Mac.Click the security code (or use the  Touch Bar ).

Let us know if we can help with anything else at all or if this doesn't settle your issue. Thanks and have a fabulous day!

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Apr 1, 2022 2:40 PM in response to stefanfromkaty

Apr 1, 2022 2:59 PM in response to stefanfromkaty

Hey there, stefanfromkaty.

We're glad to hear it is now resolved.

Keeping in mind that feedback submitted on Apple Support Communities is not reviewed by Apple, as this is primarily a user-to-user forum, you might want to take a moment and share your thoughts with Apple using their Product Feedback link.

Apr 1, 2022 2:47 PM in response to Gena_D

As I explained in my explanation above the autofill was working before macOS 12.3 update.

Last night apple issued the 12.3.1 update. With that the issue was resolved.

Hopefully Apple would test the future updates a little more carefully. The introduction of new features is good, but it should not cause useful features to stop working.