This is a feature not a productTM.

I switched to using safari’s password sync across mobile and desktop. It only works on iPhones and macOS desktop safari, but I adjusted my workflow.

It’s both free, and reliable as long as Apple supports it. But I trust Apple to exist or migrate better than a dedicated product company like lastpass. Both for a decent user workflow and for not being breached (much scarier to me).

I know that companies learn from security incidents and that we should reward, not punish companies for being transparent in their responses. But lastpass [0] has had issues with breaches and potential breaches and I’m nervous about storing bank passwords and whatnot with third parties.

I used to recommend lastpass because it was easier to use and better than others. But now, for people who don’t know how computers work, I just recommend to buy an iPad or iPhone and use their password managers.

I think it’s going to be tough, even if free, to compete with this.

Doing stuff like making users choose between desktop and mobile, completely arbitrary with no real engineering driver, will just move more users away, I think.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass

jwr

> But I trust Apple to exist or migrate better than a dedicated product company

I'm staring at my huge Aperture photo library (with tags, edits, versions and albums). Apple left me hanging. I would not assume anything of a huge company.

Terretta

For all kinds of reasons, I hate what they did there, abandoning Aperture functionality — there remains zero other software that fills what Aperture did for me. Even though Capture One and Adobe Lightroom Classic can both import from it to a degree:

https://learn.captureone.com/blog-posts/migrating-apple-aper...

That said, Aperture could still open an Aperture library using the final versions of Aperture up until Mojave. So from the time Aperture was discontinued, Aperture itself worked through six versions of MacOS, until Catalina.

As of Catalina, Aperture no longer ran native[1], but Photos itself could still open and migrate those libraries (note: I have not tried in Big Sur). While Photos didn’t recognize everything initially, before Aperture became unsupported, Photos did eventually handle tags, non-destructive edits, JPEG+RAW pairs, referenced files, and albums.

Apple eventually got the parity enough I was able to move a quarter million photos over into Photos, and haven’t needed to re-open Aperture in a couple years. While I haven’t needed it, I did test the software linked in [1] below, and it worked great.

What to do if you’re on Catalina or newer, and need to migrate Aperture to Photos: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209594

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1. NOTE: Open Aperture on Big Sur or Catalina using ‘Retroactive’: https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

From README: ”All Aperture features should be available except for playing videos, exporting slideshows, Photo Stream, and iCloud Photo Sharing. If RAW photos can't be opened, you need to reprocess them.”