What If Password Autofill Won’t Work?

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⌛ Password vaults are sometimes unable to auto-fill fields. There are several ways to work around this.
⌛ Password autofill won't work?
Sometimes website design prevents password vaults from automatically filling information in to all forms. There are several workarounds that allow you to initiate the auto-fill or copy/paste the information manually. Start by clicking on any vault-related icon in the fields in question or right-clicking in the field to expose any vault-specific menu items.
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0:00 Password Autofill Won’t Work
1:30 Why auto-fill might not work
4:15 Click on the LastPass icon if it's there
5:10 Use LastPass to copy username or password
6:40 R-click in the field for options
7:50 Use the browser bar icon
8:53 Edit the entry
9:40 One the vault
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@jackfrank303 2 года назад

One other thing to think about if your password doesn't autofill. Maybe you aren't on the site you think you're on. Not long ago I tried to log on to my credit card site and the password didn't autofill. I thought it was strange because it always autofilled in the past. I took a closer look at the website and found it wasn't the real credit card web page. The password manager didn't recognize the web page so it hadn't filled it. I learned two lessons from that. One, if your password doesn't autofill check the webpage to be sure it's real and the second lesson is don't pick your important websites off an internet search. I've found my legitimate websites and bookmarked them. That way I know I'm getting to the right site.

@slimjimjerry 2 года назад

Thanks. I was just opening the vault and doing the copy/paste if the icon with the number wasn't there, you saved me some pain.

@jameswright5627 2 года назад

Thank you for this useful piece of information Leo.

@kkoz83 2 года назад

I would check under the Advanced Settings, for Autofill, as you were showing your vault at the 10:22 timestamp of this video.

@georgeholman6745 2 года назад

Leo, I have found some sites won't accept 'Paste' and some won't accept Ctrl-V either (albeit rare). These sites can be pain in the butt, but I still use LastPass. Without LastPass I would be totally lost. Yes, some sites are so obnoxious I must resort to opening the vault and expose the password to view and manually typing in the password but at least I can find the password. Without LastPass it would be lost to the dark spaces of my mind and lost forever. If anyone thinks manually typing in a password is too much trouble, try getting a new password authorized by one of these obnoxious sites. 😒

@askleonotenboom 2 года назад

Password vaults are supposed to make things easier. What do you do when they don’t?

@chucktaylor89519 Год назад

Do vault managers clear the clipboard after either user names or passwords are copied and pasted?

@askleonotenboom Год назад

Most do. I have a sound effect on my clipboard activity (via 3rd party tool), and something like 30 seconds after copying a password to the clipboard, I hear a sound as LastPass empties the clipboard.