Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Google is bringing native third-party autofill support to Chrome for Android.
- This feature allows you to autofill passwords, passkeys, addresses, and more using a third-party password manager.
- Native third-party autofill support is enabled in the latest Chrome beta release and is expected to roll out to the stable channel next month.
Google Chrome for Android received support for autofill with third-party password managers earlier this year. However, this feature was buggy and didn’t provide consistent autofill suggestions, so the option to set an alternative password manager as the default autofill provider was hidden behind a flag. Google has resolved these issues in the latest Chrome beta, and the feature will finally be available to users next month.
In a recent post on the Android Developers Blog, Google revealed that third-party password managers previously had to rely on compatibility mode to autofill forms in Chrome. As a result, unforeseen issues such as “page scrolling may become unstable and duplicate suggestions from Google or third parties may appear.”
Google addressed the flaw in the latest Chrome beta release (version 131) by adding native third-party autofill support to an alternative password manager. The company says that using a third-party autofill provider provides a “smoother and simpler user experience,” allowing users to autofill passwords, passkeys, addresses, and payment data.
Chrome 131 will be published to the stable channel on November 12th, bringing native third-party autofill support to all users. The feature will still require users to enable a flag in beta, but Google has confirmed that it will be enabled by default in the stable release.
