Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app

Posted by ColinWright 6/30/2025

Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app(www.cnet.com)

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bob_theslob646 7/3/2025|

> July 2025: You won't be able to use the autofill password function. > August 2025: You'll no longer be able to use saved passwords

There has to be some sort of cost benefits analysis for this as this will certainly piss a ton of people off especially the tech illiterate. Maybe passkeys are extremely simple but saved passwords being disallowed is a huge pain point.

xp84 7/3/2025|

Nobody tech illiterate was using MS Authenticator as their default autofill provider as it’s not the default autofill mechanism on iOS or Android.

The passwords have always been stored in your Microsoft account. Anyone who has their passwords there can just install Edge on their device and enable it as the autofill provider (no, that doesn’t require you to browse with Edge, just to log into it). This whole article is silly, as there is zero change to your ability to save passwords in your MS account or to autofill them on mobile.

rekabis 7/5/2025||

This is a very smh facepalm bridgepinch sigh moment, where Microsoft could have taken the high road and gently educated users by restricting insecure passwords instead of blocking their use entirely. A simple bit complexity algorithm like what KeePass uses could determine a threshold beneath which restrictions on adding/using passwords could start to bite.

I only use their app for Microsoft resources, as the 2FA and other security features are stronger through the app than through other 2FA channels. The 2FA itself, for example, is plumped up from 6 to 8 digits. And there is a challenge/response code you can use as well.

But still, IMO this was a massive missed opportunity.

burnt-resistor 7/3/2025||

Who trusts Microsoft with their passwords, seriously?

And passkeys are even worse because they're user hostile, dev hostile, and stuck in a walled-garden.

Passwords and 2FA (TOTP or passkeys or something else, with a recovery code mechanism), not just passkeys, or GTFO.

theginger 7/3/2025|

Is this anything to do with them taking passwords without consent? I rarely use windows, and when I do one of the first things I do is switch from edge to chrome. I think I set up edge and used it once to see what it was actually like, but I was pretty careful about the data syncing / sharing settings. I have the Microsoft authenticator app on my phone, I was pretty careful about the privacy settings on that too, but it's been through a couple of phone upgrades. Somehow all of my passwords were making their way into Microsoft authenticator, so I must have missed something somewhere. I can only imagine how many millions of people must have had their passwords unintentionally slurped by Microsoft if they have been that aggressive with it.