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How well does it work on iOS? I’ve been happy with how well LastPass integrates with iOS so far.

It works great on iOS. Full integration as you would expect, pops up at the top of the keyboard for app & website autofills. FaceID is also implemented to authenticate before opening your vault.

edit: One note about something that was bugging me for a while...items created on my computer sometimes wouldn't show up in the vault for immediate use. Painful when you sign up for a service using your computer and then try to immediately sign into it on your phone.

In the iOS app settings there is 'Swipe down to refresh' (or similar) - turn that ON. Not sure why it was off by default, but it totally fixes the issue. Just swipe down to refresh the vault and your new item appears.

I think with any install of BitWarden, be it a browser add-in or separate app, the one you are adding a new credential into knows enough to sync to the cloud, but the others won’t know that new data awaits in the cloud until they do a scheduled query/poll or you manually sync through those clients.

Having a push feature only works if you can engineer your app or add-in to open up the necessary ports or tunnels in the OS itself. Polling on the client end will always be easier to implement.

Also: just checked BitWarden v2.8.0 (449) on iOS 14.4, no setting for “swipe to refresh” anywhere in its settings.

Absolutely. I don't know what eventually triggers the vault on my iOS device to update. It definitely isn't a push notification when the vault is modified on other devices. Probably just a simple duration-since-last-update timer, like the Chrome extension.

My trouble was specifically related to the 'Pull down to refresh' behavior being disabled by default though. If that feature is disabled the new items will appear sometime, with no way of knowing when that will be. I honestly don't even know why that feature has an ON/OFF switch, it should just be permanently enabled.

> just checked BitWarden v2.8.0 (449) on iOS 14.4, no setting for “swipe to refresh” anywhere in its settings

Settings -> Manage -> Sync -> Enable sync on refresh

It works well for me on iOS, not sure how it compares with LastPass's app but BitWarden does everything I need on the phone.

Integration is the same as LastPass, in my experience.

Works well on iOS. I've switched from LastPass years ago, and never regretted it.

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