Safari password autofill not working in ios 11

40+ people "have the same problem" and no response from Apple. Not even any way to uninstall and do a fresh install of Safari without reinstalling the entire OS and all subsequent updates which will take forever. Time to switch to Chrome permanently and forget about Safari. Apple's ecosystem getting weaker and weaker and less appealing by the year since Jobs passed. Competition stepping up and getting better every day. Soon, no reason to pay Apple premium price. Heard even the new MacBooks Pro's have way more bugs than ever before. No surprise, if they can't even get Safari and its Autofill to work properly nor address a user's concern here.

Success! And port release notes. Just spent 30 mins with support chat.

Now you have to click into the password field. The keyboard will come up. In the top row, left hand side you will see “password”. Click on. That and you will get a drop down to select the info you want to autofill.

they are working on better information about the change. There is a one liner in the release notes about extra privacy controls but...

Give it a try. More keystrokes but at least it populates!

hi there, I tried and succeeded when this error appeared on my iPhone

1.go to setting -> general - > background app refresh and click wifi

2.go to settings -> accounts and password -> fetch new data -> automatically, push click off, icloud click fetched

3. close safari and open it again

4. done and enjoy! click here to Readmore iOS

I fixed this by deleting and recreating my contact card.

• Go to Contacts app and find your card.
• Delete it.
• Create a new card and enter your information, then click Done.
• With the new card selected, go to the menu bar and select Card-->Make this my card.
• Now go back to the card
  • Contacts will try and pull information it has seen in other apps (additional email addresses, phone numbers, etc).
  • Click the ℹ button next to those items and tell it to ignore them.

I am unsure of how this happened to me , MOST LIKELY ICLOUD. But the answer ,(For me) ,was to open contacts and select myself , then in the toolbar select CARD _ MAKE THIS MY DEFAULT CONTACT , somehow SIRI changed it to a blank me. At least thats what the contact stated ("Found by Siri") .

I agree.

I bought a Macbook Pro for the first time Sept. 2017, within 2 days of it arriving it developed a trackpad fault. After a lot of wrangling with Apple and hours on the phone, I received a replacement. I like the product, but I am disappointed, I am experiencing one problem after another it seems. I paid 2100 Euro for my Macbook and the autofill now not working is one of many annoying problems on a 5 month old machine which should not be happening.

Some help from Apple to solve the issue would be nice.

Like those above, I am also having username and password auto fill issues (on Safari) since the latest iOS update on my iPad and iPhone. All setting correct. I can click on the details that appear at the top of the keyboard to auto fill manually but I have never had to do this before. Usually the details fill themselves. Something seriously wrong and annoying.

Just done same. Only on 15 mins as I gave up

Must have got a less qualified agent. Kept asking if I had turned passwords on ! I gave up. I had found the above remedy but they seem to have no resolution yet

Yes i have just discovered this now i was going onto a website use every day to check out about tech and i noticed the password and username field were blank i thought this was weird so i thought maybe the website is having issues so then i tried FB/Twitter and them too arent autofilling my details automatically like before i have to click the username or email bar and do it manually which is really annoying ive noticed this across iOS/ MacOS. It must be a bug in 11.3

Hi, The support tech I was chatting with went to his second tier support and learned "Autofill changed with the iOS 11.3 update, it no longer automatically fills, it has the option to add the details." That's when I messed with it and found if you click into the ID or PW field, the keyboard will show and to the top left of the keyboard display it will say "Password". Click that and it will give you a drop down of user-id's for that web-site. Select the one you want and it populates ID/PW then as always.

It appears to be the new way.

Yes I too contacted Apple about this and got the same answer and saw it written on it’s. iOS 11.3 release notes. I also checked with Rene Ritchie of imore and he said it was purely down to privacy and security reasons. It’s not a major hassle but an extra step but for the sake of privacy it’s worth it

Go to:

->Settings

->General

->Keyboards

Enable 'Shortcuts' (if this doesn't work, turn ON all keyboard settings)

Now tap username/password field on website and you'll see top of a keyboard your username for this site, or 'password' text on iPhone, select that and you are good to go.

This isn’t a bug but normal behaviour they changed it for security reasons apparently some websites were using it for fraud so now it requires the user to manually select it. Yeah it can be annoying but its for security sake

Lhledik, thanks for finding (and posting) a solution to this latest bug (“no, it’s a feature!” -Apple).

It works, but only with the on-screen keyboard.

Has anyone found out how to get passwords to autofill using an external keyboard?

The only workaround I’ve found so far is to turn off Bluetooth to force the on-screen keyboard to appear, select the password to autofill the fields, then turn Bluetooth back on and reconnect to the external keyboard.

They removed the automatic auto fill from 11.3 now you have to manually click on the username or password field and select the password or username above the keyboard or click passwords to the left hand side of the keyboard and choose the password then it will auto fill