On several occasions I have signed up for a website and used Bitwarden to generate the password. When it generates the password BW shows me the proposed password and I click to use it and it is filled into the password field. The website I’m signing up for accepts my credentials and creates an account for me.
The issue is, BW doesn’t offer to add the login to the vault. What’s worse is there is no way to record the generated password without taking a screenshot or manually writing it down. When I go to password history, it shows nothing.
Do anybody have this issue? You’re trying to sign up for a new site and BW doesn’t offer to save a generated password?
@jaygar when you create certifications for a new site, the best practice is to create the username and password inside Bitwarden first (including the URL) and then when you create the account on the website, allow Bitwarden to fill the new username and password to the website.
But as @grb noted, even if you did what you articulated, it (Bitwarden) should still have saved the password it created so that you can create the entry (now) in your vault.
Thank you both for your replies. As an example, I signed up for the Monarch Money website (monarchmoney.com) yesterday. I clicked on “sign up” and entered my email address. Then, the website asked me to enter a password and Bitwarden generated one:
I clicked on the Bitwarden generated password and it filled in and completed my registration. Bitwarden didn’t ask if I want to create a new login item and when I check Password History, the most recent password is from 2/7/25.
I am on a Mac and I use both the Firefox browser extension and the desktop app.
I wouldn’t be posting here if this was a one off experience for me. It has happened frequently enough that I don’t trust Bitwarden to remember the generated password. I thought I would try it again yesterday and see if it would work correctly now, but it happened again.
Again, going forward use the workflow that I described (create new vault item with UN and PW first) before creating a new website account. Then there’s no question that the credentials will be saved in Bitwarden.
I am not sure why you aren’t finding the one you did yesterday - 2/8/25, right in the password history. Is it possible that you did this on the 7th (which is what you’re seeing as the most recently-generated password)?
Thank you for your suggestion as that is the work around I’ve already been using to register new accounts and login items, since Bitwarden (sometimes) can’t seem to remember passwords it generates.
I would prefer to Bitwarden did a better job assisting in setting up new login accounts online. It defeats the purpose of having a browser extension if you have to go to the app and create the login item before signing up on the actual website.
As to when I had the issue, yes I’m sure that it was yesterday, plus I tried the process again today, to get the image to include in my previous post. After I did it again today, I checked password history and again the most recent password was 2/7.
For some reason, you are refusingunable* to answer my question about where you are examining the password history.
Let me explain:
Bitwarden’s desktop app, web vault app, mobile apps, CLI, and browser extensions are all independent, and furthermore, if you have multiple web vault apps or multiple browser extensions (on different browsers), or if you have multiple devices, or multiple Bitwarden accounts, then each instance is independent of the others, and each has its own Password History records.
In addition, even for a single instance of one browser extension in one browser on one device (logged in to one Bitwarden account), there is a distinction between the Password History that is maintained for each individual vault item, and the global Password History for the app’s password generator.
So unless you can prove that you are looking in the correct location (using screenshots and a detailed description of the steps you have taken), I will assume that your failure to find the generated password is simply due to user error.
grb, thank you for your detail explanation. That solved my issue not being able to find the generated passwords. For the record, I didn’t REFUSE to answer your question . As a new user to this forum, I am limited to one reply per day so I had to wait 24 hours to directly answer. Plus, I didn’t realize that password history was independent and not synchronized between the browser extension and the desktop app. I was checking the password history in the desktop app which is why I wasn’t finding the more recently generated passwords, generated in the browser extension.
So, my issue of the missing generated passwords has been solved, but the fact that Bitwarden doesn’t ask if I want to create a new login item with the generated password still remains.
Why generate a password if it doesn’t offer to create or save to a login item?
PS- I LOVE Bitwarden. I’ve tried them all and Bitwarden is the best IMO
A while ago, I made some short “tests” with that new inline generator function - with mixed results: Password generator popup broken? - #5 by Nail1684 Back then, it seemed to me, that this new function indeed doesn’t work always as it should.
PS: I changed the title from “Password Generator Doesn’t Ask to Add Login Item” to “Inline Password Generator Doesn’t Ask to Add Login Item”, so that it’s more clear which “generator” is meant.
. As a new user to this forum, I am limited to one reply per day so I had to wait 24 hours to directly answer. Plus, I didn’t realize that password history was independent and not synchronized between the browser extension and the desktop app. I was checking the password history in the desktop app which is why I wasn’t finding the more recently generated passwords, generated in the browser extension.