Posted by Eiji Kitamura – Developer Advocate
Chrome on Android will quickly permit third-party autofill providers (like password managers) to natively autofill types on web sites. Builders of those providers want to inform their customers to toggle a setting in Chrome to proceed utilizing their service with Chrome.
Background
Google is the default autofill service on Chrome, offering passwords, passkeys and autofill for different info like addresses and fee knowledge.
A 3rd-party password supervisor could be set as the popular autofill service on Android by means of System Settings. The popular autofill service can fill throughout all Android apps. Nonetheless, to autofill types on Chrome, the autofill service wants to make use of “compatibility mode“. This causes glitches on Chrome akin to janky web page scrolling and probably exhibiting duplicate ideas from Google and a third-party.
With this coming change, Chrome on Android will permit third-party autofill providers to natively autofill types giving customers a smoother and less complicated person expertise. Third-party autofill providers can autofill passwords, passkeys and different info like addresses and fee knowledge, as they’d in different Android apps.
Strive the characteristic your self
You may already take a look at the performance on Chrome 131 and later. First, set a third-party autofill service as most popular in Android 14:
Be aware: Directions could fluctuate by machine producer. The beneath steps are for a Google Pixel machine working Android 15.
- Open Android’s System Settings
- Choose Passwords, passkeys & accounts
- Faucet on Change button beneath Most popular service
- Choose a most popular service
- Affirm altering the popular autofill service
Secondly, allow third-party autofill service on Chrome
- Open Chrome on Android
- Open chrome://flags#enable-autofill-virtual-view-structure
- Set the flag to “Enabled” and restart
- Open Chrome’s Settings and faucet Autofill Companies
- Select Autofill utilizing one other service
- Affirm and restart Chrome
Be aware: Steps 2 and three aren’t essential after Chrome 131. Chrome 131 is scheduled to be secure on November twelfth, 2024.
You may emulate how Chrome behaves after compatibility mode is disabled by updating chrome://flags#suppress-autofill-via-accessibility to Enabled.
Actions required from third-party autofill providers
Implementation clever, autofill service builders do not want an extra implementation so long as they’ve a correct integration with autofill providers. Chrome will gracefully respect it and autofill types.
Chrome plans to cease supporting compatibility mode in early 2025. Customers should choose Autofill utilizing one other service in Chrome settings to make sure their autofill expertise is unaffected. The brand new setting is out there in Chrome 131. You must encourage your customers to toggle the setting, to make sure they’ve the perfect autofill expertise doable along with your service and Chrome on Android.
Timeline
- October sixteenth, 2024: Chrome 131 beta is out there
- November twelfth, 2024: Chrome 131 is in secure
- Early 2025: Compatibility mode is now not accessible on Chrome
