As of iOS 26, iPad credit card autofill no longer works; iPhone works fine

UPDATE: I didn’t mention that I’m using a Magic Keyboard. I tried the vanilla test I mentioned a few minutes ago with the iPad disconnected from the Magic Keyboard. Press and hold in the content area like with the iPhone to get to the autofill area and the menu works.

So I went to a site and added an item to a cart, then progressed to payment. Same problem auto-filling CC info. Detached the Magic Keyboard and everything worked find.

So this is either a Hardware Keyboard bug, or I have some permission set to disallow that use.

Yeah, I hadn’t looked up the release dates of 26.2 and 26.2.1. And having the Magic Keyboard connected definitely seems to kill all autofill, not just credit card info. I’ve reported a bug. The nearest Apple Store is over an hour away, so Genius Bar will have to wait.

Thanks for the suggestion - tried it but no luck.

Also checked Safari extensions to see if anything was different, but again no luck.

As a vanilla sort of test, I started a new mail message on my iPhone, then brought up the contextual menu. Selected AutoFill And then Credit Cards. That triggered a FaceID authentication and then allowed me to insert CC info directly into the mail message. Selecting Contacts from the AutoFill menu brought up Contacts.

Performed the identical test on the iPad and I get the top-level menu (Contact, Passords, Credit Cards, Scan Text) but that’s it — none of the submenus do anything.

It feels like I have a permission somewhere disabled.

Nope - good call; updated to 2026.3, but no joy.

I added something to a shopping cart, then went to check out. Tapping in the credit card field on my iPhone brought up my stored cards as expected. Trying the same thing, same site on my iPad did absolutely nothing. Tried control-clicking to bring up the contextual menu (got it), then selected credit cards and got nothing - no listing of cards, much less the ability to select one of them.

This has got me stumped — there just doesn’t seem to be that many places to tweak this functionality. This definitely went south with the iPadOS2026 update, though. The contextual menu is the new thing, which also appears to be broken for me.

Yep, thanks for bringing that up. I was hopeful, but my firmware is current at 0750.0220.0304. that was released on 20 January, so pre-26.3. So I suppose that 26.3 might have introduced this bug — not certain, but I think my issue started before that.

Provided feedback, then went through the Support tree. The service stated that since this isn’t a hardware problem and no other firmware solution is available, well, I’m on my own. I could spend half a day getting to/from the Apple Store, but I don’t see any point.

I’ll have to keep my eyes open for another firmware update I guess. It would be interesting to know if the bug was introduced by the firmware update or if it was 26.2 or 26.1.

I’ve tested this over a dozen sites — sites that all perform correctly when using my iPhone. This doesn’t present as a site-specific problem.

Yep, that’s on my list to try next time I want to spend that much of my day - Best Buy is an hour away. Thanks again for your taking the time on this, Jeff. Much appreciated.