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Now, autofill your saved passwords from Microsoft Edge on your phone!
Sanjay_Joshi This works great ! I was happy to have it, but there are a few things preventing me to leave it enabled.
One issue lies with Edge itself : on Android, enabling Authenticator's accessibility service makes Edge go into an "accessibility-oriented" UI, changing the main "..." menu into a list for example, and the tab view (with thumbnails) into a list (without thumbnails). This UI can certainly be nice to have for those who need it, but it can't be disabled manually, forcing you to disable any accessibility services to restore the original Edge UI.
Since many apps such as Authenticator use accessibility services for other purposes, the lack of a manual toggle in Edge for its accessibility mode seems like an issue, especially now that a MS app relies on the accessibility services.
The other issue is that you can't enable it for your personal account if it finds any work/school account on any app on the phone. I thought it was fine since I don't have a work/school account in Authenticator, but no - having your school account in the outlook app prevents you from enabling autofill in the app. You can delete that account from outlook and successfully enable autofill, but then you don't get mails or calendar, and autofills is auto-disabled as soon as you add the school account back.
AmineI Thank you for sharing your inputs and testing the product! We'll look into how we can make your experience smoother with accessibility turned ON. About Autofill currently not working with work or school accounts - we're actively working on building the right controls using which Autofill can be easily managed by organizations. This is an important focus for us and you'll see improvements here in the near future!
Thank you for sharing your inputs and testing the product!
Many thanks to you and the team working on the features - this is awesome.
About Autofill currently not working with work or school accounts
I'll be sure to check back for improvements ! But I may have been unclear.
The thing is I don't want to enable Autofill for my work/school account - I understand it is not working and it makes perfect sense. Them having the right controls is important, as you said; especially for secure data such as passwords.
In my scenario, I want to enable autofill for my personal account, but I can't do so because Authenticator detected a work/school account in the Outlook app.
What I do not understand is why having a work/school account on *my device* prevents me to use autofill with *my personal account*.
Whether or not school/work organizations want to allow autofill for their accounts is their choice, and they have control over it. But I believe these controls should impact their organizations' accounts only, and not impact using autofill with a personal account on a personal device as it does currently.
I think jcsharp was asking for the same thing in his second point.
Anyway, I'll wait for improvements in these scenarios hopefully - thanks again for your answers regarding our queries, and congrats to the team for the feature launch !