iOS Password Autofill Suggesting New Password Instead of Existing

Question

I have Sign In and Sign Up forms in my app at startup.

Password Autofill keeps suggesting a "New Strong Password" for the existing password field. I'm explicitly setting the contentType to .password for the existing field and .newPassword for the new password field, yet iOS refuses to offer up anything but the "New Strong Password" View.

What am I doing wrong?

Here's the View Hierarchy:

Here's how I'm setting the textContentType of each field:

And this is what iOS does every time you tap the password field at Sign In:

Sauger

What happens if you tap the email field, or enter something into the email field before moving to the password field? – Wizard

@Wizard Same thing, attempts to populate with a new password. – Sauger

I've now even gone so far as to create an entirely new view controller, with only an Email field, Password field, and Login button. Same result. – Sauger

I tried to create a test project to look at this, but I just keep getting an error In the console that auto fill isn't available. From my server logs I can see that my device isn't even trying to read my site association file, so I don't know what I have done wrong; I have the entitlement set with my domain name 🙁 – Wizard

It's 2020 and this is still a problem. – Bogor

Same issue for me on iOS 13. – Syringomyelia

Answer 1

textfield content type .newPassword will actually suggest a new password instead of exisiting. You should be using the textfield content type .password to get suggestion and autofill the password

Grumpy