This week’s betas for Apple operating systems have brought a function change to iCloud Keychain. The Safari team’s Ricky Mondello has hit Twitter with news on the way Apple’s browser will handle saving passwords with no associated username. It’s gonna stop doing that. “Right now,” a piece from iDownloadBlog explains:
…iCloud Keychain is more than happy to save a password for an app or website that might not have a username associated with it. In the moment that might not be an issue, depending on how the log-in process is handled. However, down the road when the user tries to log in again but iCloud Keychain doesn’t have a username to go along with that password, issues can arise.
Starting with this week’s round of betas, according to Mondello’s Tweet:
…when Safari isn’t sure, it’ll prompt you for the username for a password, rather than silently save it sans user name. Sometimes Safari will prefill its best guess here.
And we didn’t sneak it in. We intentionally addressed a pain point.
