Password Manager — Manual iPhone, iPad and Android

AutoFill on Android

With AutoFill, the Password Manager fills in user names, passwords and credit cards in apps and browsers, without you having to open the app.

Setting up AutoFill

Your keychain must already be set up on the device (see Getting started).

  1. Open the app's settings and tap "Open AutoFill settings" under "AutoFill". (The app may also suggest this itself with "Set up AutoFill" → "Enable AutoFill".)
  2. Android opens its setting for the autofill service. Select "Steganos Password Manager". - On Android 14 and later, the setting is called "Passwords, passkeys & autofill" (the name can differ slightly depending on the device manufacturer). Select "Steganos Password Manager" as the preferred service there. Only then can it also provide passkeys.
  3. Back in the app, the settings show "Enabled".

Google Chrome: Chrome uses its own autofill by default. To have it fill in via the Password Manager, open Chrome's "Settings" → "Autofill services" and select "Autofill using another service". Then restart Chrome.

Filling in passwords

Tap a user name or password field in an app or on a website. Below the field (or in the keyboard's suggestion bar) you see the matching logins from your keychain. Tap one and confirm with your fingerprint or face, or with the master password. If you have unlocked the keychain only a short time before, it is filled in straight away.

  • "Select another entry" opens your whole keychain ("Your keychain"), where you can search for any entry ("Search passwords...") or create a new one with "New".
  • If no suggestions are available yet (for example right after setting up, or when "Suggestions before unlocking" is off), "Unlock Steganos to show logins" appears instead. Tap it and unlock; a single matching login is then filled in directly.

In the unlock screen you can switch on "Unlock with fingerprint" (or biometrics), so that you don't have to type the password next time. If you have several keychains, "Change keychain" selects a different one.

Credit cards

In payment forms, the Password Manager offers your credit card entries and fills in card number, holder, expiry date and security code. Before unlocking, "Unlock Steganos to show credit cards" appears.

Saving new logins

When you sign in with a password that is not yet in the Password Manager, or with a changed one, Android offers to save it. After unlocking, the app shows "Save password to Steganos?" (or "Update password in Steganos?" for an existing entry). Check title, user name, password and URL and tap "Save". The app confirms with "Saved in Steganos.".

If you don't want this, turn off "Offer to save passwords" in the settings.

AutoFill settings in the app

Under "AutoFill" in the settings:

  • "Keychain for AutoFill" (only with several keychains): which keychain AutoFill uses. "Same as default keychain" follows the default keychain.
  • "Suggestions before unlocking": keeps titles, user names and web addresses of your logins encrypted on the device, so that AutoFill can suggest them before you unlock. Filling in always requires unlocking.
  • "Offer to save passwords": see above.

Note: Entries saved via AutoFill are uploaded to the cloud the next time you open the keychain in the app.