Yep! First step was the Desktop app though 
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Just switched from Avast Passwords because of this! Hope support comes for desktop browser plugins soon!
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Avast has a password manager ?
@vachan Yeah! Like most of the antivirus it does.
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How long is this browser plugin touch id gonna take because the touch id option took ages to be added. Any ETA?
Hopefully soon, but it will be after our SSO release.
ETA depends on which browsers will work natively, and which will require a desktop app “bridge” of sorts.
Oke thank you for your quick reply., ill check Bitwarden over 6 months again.
I read that a few months earlier in this thread Billy_Lo did some research and found that even if Chrome could support TouchID, that Safari didn’t support that yet. He said:
Chrome does support WebAuthn with Mac Touch ID (Safari doesn’t yet).
But of course since then Apple has announced that their next version of Safari will have a lot better support for extensions. So I’m wondering if you have any knowledge about whether the next version of Safari does support an extension to utilize TouchID.
If not then I’m not too bummed out. I use Chrome and Safari side-by-side so I’ll be happy if even just one of them gets TouchID support, but I’m just curious if anyone knows if Safari will be able to support it too.
The next major Safari version will even support TouchID and FaceID on websites. I hope plugins will also be able to use this.
Hey tgreer, once you guys do start working on TouchID I have a request for how that should be implemented.
At the moment I have my browser extensions set up such that when I unlock them they stay unlocked for 4 hours and when they lock again I can unlock them using a simpler pincode rather than my master password. Even after a browser restart.
I do this, because my master password is very long and I want to use it as little as possible. However I’m aware that my setup is relatively unsafe. Once you implement TouchID I think it would be super nice if the vault can stay locked at all times, since unlocking it with TouchID barely takes any effort. But that the browser extension still offers to autofill login forms, even if the vault is locked, just by simply asking the user to authenticate with TouchID for every form autofill moment. That’s how Apple has implemented iCloud Keychain in Safari I love it, because it feels both convenient and very safe.
@Evert - thanks for the feedback! I think that request has more to do with Bitwarden prompting to autofill even on a locked vault rather than just the Touch ID portion. Safari, of course, has many deep integrations, so we’ll see what options there may be for our extensions, however, in the past the Browser APIs have been quite restrictive.
Came here after hunting for a feature that would be brilliant for Bitwarden, left a premium plan member to support the devs after years of being a free user.
Love your work guys.
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EDIT: 
wow I see you referenced this, as it was also already requested a long time ago. Still, I’d imagine should be fairly simplistic, as keyboard shortcut just triggering logic.
✅ Autofill shortcut should open login window when vault is locked - #11 by laurens
A simpler suggestion/request is to allow the auto-fill keyboard shortcuts to trigger the bitwarden extension to prompt for unlock (touchid).
I would like to suggest this along side the automatic auto-fill prompt feature request, as both of these provide independent value and can sort of act as failovers for one another.
This feature request is what would really make the touchid implementation shine.
Users would not need to ever use the mouse or perform extra navigation and clicks in order to unlock. Hands can stay on the keyboard, unlocks would be quick and painless.
Logic would be:
- User navigates to webpage
- User uses autofill keyboard shortcut (e.g cmd + \ )
- If bitwarden extension is locked, show prompt for unlock (e.g touchid if configured)
- Autofill for current site
- Else bitwarden extension is already unlocked, autofill as normal.
I would think this implementation would be very do-able and not require any deep safari integrations.
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More movement on Biometrics/Desktop + Extension communication
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This has my vote! +1
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THIS. Just switched to Bitwarden last week on iOS and MacOS 11 (M1 Macbook Air) - have previously used 1Password for the past 16 years.
The two main factors that prompted me to change: 1. ability to run my own server (yay!) 2. works on all platforms. Biometric unlocking on iOS is decent (and a must-have) and now supporting same in MacOS would be icing on the cake. Only been using TouchID on the new Mac for a week but already find it indispensable.
Need to leave LastPass due to them dropping TouchID support on macOS. Wanting to switch to BitWarden. This article sounds like TouchID is functional on desktop with macOS: https://bitwarden.com/help/article/biometrics/
Is that correct? It has been added? Or is it still in development?
It has been added to the desktop app and is currently in development for the browser plugin
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@tgreer Any news/updates for touch id browser integration?
I got the feeling its gonna takes years to get it as we seen with the Touch Id support for the app.
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I see the above mentioned PR merged https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/pull/566. Does that mean the next release would support touchId?
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