This is missing an important piece of information. If I open Authenticator on iOS I see this message front and center:
> Autofill via Authenticator ends in July 2025
You can export your saved info (passwords only) from Authenticator until Autofill ends. Access your passwords and addresses via Microsoft
Edge at any time.
To keep autofilling your info, turn on Edge or other provider. (Learn more)
not sure the full Android feature set, but MS is moving their iOS autofill provider to the Edge app, which doesn’t mean I have to use Edge to browse, just changes which app hosts the passwords. I can still fill them using the native mechanism for any password manager to provide passwords to any password field.
Microsoft is not forcing anybody to adopt passkeys as far as I can tell. Although overall people should because passwords are quite frankly a broken idea. Almost as broken as the idiotic janky “we just emailed/texted you a code” bullshit that most sites do now instead of TOTP.
> Autofill via Authenticator ends in July 2025 You can export your saved info (passwords only) from Authenticator until Autofill ends. Access your passwords and addresses via Microsoft Edge at any time. To keep autofilling your info, turn on Edge or other provider. (Learn more)
not sure the full Android feature set, but MS is moving their iOS autofill provider to the Edge app, which doesn’t mean I have to use Edge to browse, just changes which app hosts the passwords. I can still fill them using the native mechanism for any password manager to provide passwords to any password field.
Microsoft is not forcing anybody to adopt passkeys as far as I can tell. Although overall people should because passwords are quite frankly a broken idea. Almost as broken as the idiotic janky “we just emailed/texted you a code” bullshit that most sites do now instead of TOTP.