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Did you tell it to ignore most local files?
Wow! Just discovered the Spotlight customization and it is so much faster and more useful when you remove certain locations and turn off definitions and Siri suggestions.
I've been using Keychain since 2003. Only now am I aware that it does TOTP. I've been avoiding TOTP like the plague this whole time because I don't trust the other apps not to somehow get me locked out.
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Make an alias to Keychain access. Name it "Passwords" and have that a directory that is indexed by Spotlight (the Utilities directory under Applications where Keychain Access is found works fine). This will then show up in the launchpad. https://i.imgur.com/IRPOMC5.png Searching for 'pass' in Spotlight does bring up Keychain access - as that's in the apps list of Keywords... however the list of apps is way down on th…
> Make an alias to Keychain access. Sorry, but that also doesn't mean anything to the average user. If anything it's made it more complicated for them—they will remember to type in "key" before they learn how to make an alias That I don't have an issue with the word "keychain" doesn't mean it's not bad UX for the average Mac OS user
If you do control-space (to bring up spotlight) and type in password, what do you want it to do and what is missing?
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You're not really thinking about it as a "mac app", but rather "the service". You expect it to act like the service you use on other platforms with all the features you rely on. If I'm using Spotify, I don't think "oh this doesn't use windows navigation component from winUI", I immediately know where the genre categories are because I've already used it on android or linux and expect it to be there. I know exactly ho…
> If I'm using Spotify, I don't think "oh this doesn't use windows navigation component from winUI" We're either very different people or we have different use cases :) It immediately feels jarring to me to be using macOS and suddenly presented with a non-native UI. But I only ever use macOS on the desktop, so I don't have this cross-platform issue. What I find strange is, I would have thought that was the 99% common…
Have you given Arc Browser a shot yet? It feels pretty great. Feels designed for Mac and has its own design language at the same time.
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Chrome on mac should by default be able to work with the Apple password keychain
No, Google has not implemented support for Keychain in Chrome. AFAIK neither has Firefox.
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No, Google has not implemented support for Keychain in Chrome. AFAIK neither has Firefox.
And this annoys me greatly. I want cookies, bookmarks, and passwords to be owned by the system. That way I can switch between browsers with ease, and that would also lower the bar for new browsers to come out.
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The main limitation of Apple's passwords implementation for me is lack of sharing. For accounts that my wife and I both need access to, we can have them in a shared location in bitwarden, but there's no comparable feature with Apple's. I'll probably even start paying for bitwarden so that I can share with more than one other person when my kids are old enough to need access to them
Yeah, this is a bugbear. FWIW my wife and I "share" keychain items by airdropping them to one another as required. It works, but nowhere near as nice as having a common record we can both maintain.
Am I the only person on Earth that needs sharing of passwords among my family? Any time folks bring up password solutions, they are always missing this requirement for me. 1Password is a life-saver in this regards. All my kids have their own vaults but for the little ones I have them use a shared vault between my wife and me so we have access to their passwords. I can also easily share passwords for services like Net…
What the actual flying fuck, the apple password thing supports TOTP! That's great! (And a sad testament to how poorly the discoverability is on some ios features)
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> I use Safari a lot but if I'm in a different browser then my passwords are unavailable. Chrome used to be tied into Keychain but they went their own way a long time ago, which is a damn shame.
I believe Apple only lets you use certain APIs (like Keychain) if you distribute only through the App Store. That policy has really killed a lot of functionality on macOS. I suspect it will cause fiction on iOS when the EU forces them to allow alternative install sources. Personally, it grates me when Apple cripples functionality this way to try to keep us stuck in their platform. Can't use Firefox with Keychain. You…
That sounds especially annoying. An iPad next to you can auto-config itself as the umpteenth monitor of a Mac, but macOS can't pull Apple Card balance from your nearby iPhone?