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> 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.

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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.

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