#Review password managers for mac 2018 install#
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By using an Authy account, I'm much less likely to lock myself out of my own accounts, plus I can use their web and native clients instead of my phone. In my opinion, treating a specific device as a second factor is fundamentally flawed. I found this out the hard way when I traded in a 2-year old phone, like, you know, most normal Americans do. If you lose or trade in the device without deactivating 2FA on all your accounts, you risk losing all access.

The problem is that GA is tied to your specific device. More importantly, I recommend against Google Authenticator. While you're at it, I recommend Authy for 2FA.

I can't tell you how much peace of mind using a dedicated password manager properly has given me. As I've signed up for more accounts over the years, I've gotten notified of all kinds of data breaches, and I even received a phishing/extortion email a couple of months ago containing my old password in plain text, which I used to use for almost everything. Even now, I still find myself catching old accounts I've made but forgot to update. It took me many hours, I'm talking like days, to get most of my account credentials uploaded to Bitwarden and updated with strong, unique passwords. Knowing what I know now, it probably would have been exactly the same for me. I believe LastPass is similarly unrestricted when it comes to device counts, but it does not have native desktop clients, which is why I passed up on it.

#Review password managers for mac 2018 install#

That being said, there are valid use cases, such as web developers who may prefer to use a single native client along with multiple browsers and/or CLIs, or people who can't or won't install browser plugins for whatever reason. I started out using it, but the browser plugins are so convenient, I uninstalled the native client. In retrospect, I way overestimated the need for a desktop client.

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To be clear, many offer free mobile apps, but either charge for or lack altogether desktop clients. Personally, I chose Bitwarden because I wanted a free option without device limits, but also native clients in case I didn't want to go through a browser, and Bitwarden was the only reputable option I could find that had both of those features for free. At the very least, I would suggest something cross-platform like Chrome or Firefox, but those are still just web browsers that save web site credentials only.

Maybe I'm just unlucky and others have had no issues, but when I add my experiences on top of the fact that it's Apple-only, I just think it's a terrible idea to use Apple as a general password manager. After about a week, I got sick of the prompts, so I let it do whatever it wanted, but that somehow erased certain certificates from my employer, and so I lost access to certain services and had to get someone from IT to sort it out.

The weird thing is I kept clicking Cancel whenever the prompt came up, and things mostly seemed to work fine, but I had issues with certain accounts not being remembered.

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My experience with Apple is quite limited, but I do use a company-issued laptop at my current job, and I had a major issue where an update corrupted the keychain or something (admittedly, the notification messages about it were super confusing), and I ultimately had to delete/reset it. It may just be my social circle, but literally every Apple device owner I know (close to a dozen of them) has forgotten their Apple ID at least once, and it's a royal pain trying to recover them. Admittedly, this may be a bit silly, but anecdotally, in my personal experience, Apple products/accounts are the absolute worst when it comes to people remembering passwords and/or otherwise losing access.