Now, autofill your saved passwords from Microsoft Edge on your phone!

Sanjay_Joshi   I tested Microsoft Authenticator to autofill Edge-iOS passwords on my iPhone, with mixed and inconsistent results.  The product is still in development, clearly.  I reported the issues, removed the app, and may test again in a month or two after the product has matured somewhat. 

As I think about it, I'm not at all sure that I want to turn over password autofill to Microsoft Authenticator on an Apple product, which is what the product demands for smooth functioning.  Apple's autofill feature seems to work fine, is integrated into iOS, and (for that reason) is probably less prone to failure than Microsoft Authenticator.  I store only a handful of passwords on my iPhone, so I have no need to bring over all my browser passwords.  It wasn't that hard to set up the autofill using the iOS native password manager, and I'm content with it.

I'm using Microsoft Autofill, the Google Chrome Store extension equivalent of Microsoft Authenticator, as a temporary workaround to autofill Edge-Linux passwords on one of my Linux computers where I'm testing Edge-Linux.  Microsoft Autofill identifies and apparently treats Edge-Linux as Google Chrome.  As far as I can tell after a few day's use, Microsoft Autofill works flawlessly Edge-Linux, and I intend to continue to use it until Microsoft gets around to enabling sync in Edge-Linux.  If nothing else, it converts Edge-Linux from bling to a useful browser that can be used for testing Edge-Linux in a real-world environment.

I have to laugh a bit, though.  Microsoft Authenticator doesn't yet work smoothly where it was intended to work, but Microsoft Autofill works flawlessly where it was not intended to be used.