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I really liked Bitwarden but the incredibly delayed Passkey support that hasn't even reached mobile yet left me worried about the future development of core Bitwarden.

Something else that I can't really understand but that does not affect only Bitwarden but most password managers: File attachments are handled incredibly badly. Even just the UI to manage & upload new files in Bitwarden is strange and unintuitive and that vault exports/backups do not include the files at all is really bad. I hope Bitwarden and the whole field for that matter improves a lot in this regard.

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> I really liked Bitwarden but the incredibly delayed Passkey support that hasn't even reached mobile yet left me worried about the future development of core Bitwarden.

According to the developer of Bitwarden[0], part of the reason passkeys haven't been supported yet on mobile is due to the use of the Xamarin framework, which doesn't have cutting edge features. They're about to release new versions of the mobile apps, part of which is upgrading to the MAUI framework. This will provide a stopgap to allow passkeys until full native apps are available. They're developing the MAUI and native versions in parallel.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1b32bbz/going_na...

Thanks a lot for the link great to finally see a clearer statement. I am looking forward to a new app that hopefully does not crash on open as often. As a simple user it's just been so many delays :(

Never had it crash once, face recognition has worked on iOS flawlessly for years.. by far the most used app on my phone and favorite.

same here.

On my iPhone it crashes about 50% of the times when I use it a while, then it‘s in the background for quite a while and when I then switch to it… crash.

Their migration path from US to their new EU cloud suffers from this too. You're supposed to export your vault, then import it on a new EU account. This much is fine, but for file attachments they want you to individually download every single one by hand and then upload them again in your new account.

File attachments seem more like an afterthought that was quickly added on due to demand as a MVP and then abandoned.

Yeah the split between EU & US has been painful. I also completed my migration just a few months ago. I found https://github.com/vwxyzjn/portwarden to work very well for the migration, which works around the file export issue by retrieving them one by one and re-uploading them.

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