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I’ve mostly switched over to this over the past year already, from my previous password manager BitWarden. My only complaint is the current Safari/iCloud Keychain doesn’t support arbitrary fields like BitWarden or other password managers do. I often keep crucial info about accounts in such fields, but it’s not possible with Apple’s current implementation. Hopefully their new Password app will support it.

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Yes, having a place to store security questions like whatever my favorite flavor of ice cream was 9 years ago (looking at you, United) would be nice and the main feature I missing now.

I still generate random passwords for the questions. I don’t like that someone who knows me well could use them to gain access to an account.

… but yes we definitely need extra fields for storing that and lots of other related data.

I’m a 1Password user and one of the features I really like is that it saves ALL of the fields from a signup form along with the password. That has saved me a couple of times where I needed to know some value I had entered at the time I created an account.

It doesn’t support arbitrary fields, but does have a plaintext, multiline-supporting “notes” field. That’s where I put security questions & answers.

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