When i try to open various websites i am registered with i keep receiving a box asking to type in my password which it already has the info in as you can see in the screenshot. I have at times completed what it asks but the box still appears the next time i go to login on the site. I have never seen this until i updated to IPad 26.1
Can anyone offer some advice please
The Username for the website has not been saved. After you enter the Username and tap Save, then when you login to the website, you should also see a message asking you if you want to Update the login for that website and you will also have to say yes to that prompt.
It depends on the website that supports AutoFill. Each element uses a HTML attribute tag to label the field for the appropriate stored Username/Password. Some websites have one page to enter the Username and then goes to another page to enter the Password, and this is still possible with Autofill, but requires additional work by the web designer to correctly label those text fields.
I assume you are just seeing this issue on certain websites, while others are working fine. If you want to share what website(s) are giving you problems, I can further review the attribute tags assigned to the elements for confirmation, but the changes would come from the web designer.
When the Username is not being saved to Autofill the password, you can also go into the Passwords app and edit it to include the Username. This developer page is intended for web designers and shows what they need to do to correctly support Autofill. These are standardized HTML attributes that are used by all web browsers including Chrome and Firefox, so I would expect the same thing would happen with those ones too.
Enabling Password AutoFill on an HTML input element | Apple Developer Documentation
I have just been on Macrumours and there are numerous people with the same issue and some say it has been rectified in IPad OS 26.2 beta so it would seem a problem in 26.1
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/save-password-prompt.2470436/
Do you have any Extensions installed on Safari at Settings > Apps > Safari > Extensions?
Hi,
Many thanks for the reply.
This has been part of the problem because on numerous occasions it actually filled in the username and hit the save button and the box didn’t appear and then out of the blue it appears again which is getting frustrating as I know i have done everything right. Could it be a bug in IPad OS ?
Hi Jim,
I receive the box on every website that i log my details into even though my details are stored in Passwords. If i click on the not now tab i am immediately logged in so the info is there and correct but I don’t understand why the box appears if OS knows my details.My partner has also experienced this on her IPad on sites that she is a member of etc.
I can give a couple of sites if you want to see ?
Thanks for the update. This was the first I had seen it reported here and your post may help others who are experiencing the same thing. With 26.1 already being out for a month now, it is unusual that we would not have seen that previously reported.
Your welcome and many thanks for your advice Jim.
Hopefully the next update will get rid of the box appearing
Regards Adrian
Password dialogue box keeps appearing
