When you update a password there should be a prompt to save the new password automatically to the vault. We should not have to manually enter anything into Bitwarden, other than click “yes” to update into the vault.
How in the world is this not a standard feature? In chrome, firefox, hell even internet explorer does it with their built in password manager. And they have been doing this for years.
No one wants to manually update it in Bitwarden when changing passwords. This creates an unnecessary 2nd step. This is a Password Manager, not a “Me Manage the Password Manager”. The tool should be doing the work for me.
Try explaining to an elderly person or any technology illiterate person when they need to change a password they need to update it a second time in Bitwarden. That will go straight over their head. The next time they go to change a password they will think your product is defective because it never saved the new password.
Without this basic feature users will not stick around to use your product. Get it together if you want to succeed.
Bitwarden does prompt to save new and amended passwords - there’s a banner at the top of the screen. However, it’s dependent on how the website is coded. If BW can’t tell that you’ve changed a password, then it won’t prompt.
Personally, I prefer to update BW first, but that’s just me!
I’m having this exact same issue, FWIW, whereas I never had this problem with LastPass.
I have the Bitwarden Chrome extension active, I’m logged in, and I’ve updated my Google password. Bitwarden has my old one.
I’ve logged into Google using my desktop and my phone (w/ BW mobile app installed and logged in), and I see no banner or update password prompt in my browser or on my phone.
Please let me know, I’m eager to migrate to BW, but it doesn’t make sense to me why auto-update prompts aren’t enabled.
I’m coming from RememBear (and it’s team) and it’s pretty shocking this core feature is not available in BitWarden. RememBear is now EOL and hasn’t been updated in 3yrs+. Yet it always popped up a reminder to update a password when changed on pretty much all sites. Additionally, it offered to UPDATE or SAVE AS NEW, which is very important for sites with multiple accounts or logins. Good example: Creating this Bitwarden community account, BitWarden offered to overwrite the password for my Vault and did not offer to save as new login (like RB did).
Devs might want to reach out to RememBear devs (at TunnelBear) to work with them to maybe get the source code to make this implementation easier. RB should be shutting down Jan 2024 and there’s a couple of fans of BitWarden there!
I would love to use BitWarden long term but I’m not sure if that’s possible with this clunky manual update procedure. Updating passwords in a password manager should be a breeze and designed for non-techy users and the elderly. Hoping this can be updated relatively soon.
Also, if you go to Settings > Auto-Fill and change the “Default URI match detection setting” from “Base Domain” to “Host” (as shown below), Bitwarden will be able to automatically distinguish between vault.bitwarden.com and community.bitwarden.com.
