Does Samsung's password manager actually work?

[PacificaBren]

I ask because my S9 constantly asks me if I want to use Samsung Pass to save my logins to apps and Web sites. Every time I say yes, it requires me to access my mail and approve the new attempt to save a new password.

Thing is, after I've done that, nothing seems to have changed.

I feel like I'm missing something.

How to you use Samsung Pass, and has it actually improved your experience?

I feel like either it doesn't work, or I'm not getting some key part of why and how it works?

 

[The_Chief]

Hi Bren,

Samsung Pass is good at saving credentials, but not creating them. I use it from time to time, to remember passwords for websites I frequent a lot. For ALL our sites and accounts, we use Dashlane as a password manager. It creates unique, impossibly complex passwords for each site (anyone who still uses something like "Fluffy123" for everything is ID theft waiting to happen) and stores them in a vault accessed by one master password you never want to lose.

 

[ocnbrze]

i still use LastPass Password Manager - Apps on Google Play despite the data breaches that occurred in 2022. been using it almost since day one. i also use it on my pc as well.

never tried samsung pass.

 

[The_Chief]

You're more resilient than me, @ocnbrze - it wasn't the breaches that drove me from LastPass... it was their cavalier attitude about them and covering it up for so long.

 

[ocnbrze]

You're more resilient than me, @ocnbrze - it wasn't the breaches that drove me from LastPass... it was their cavalier attitude about them and covering it up for so long.

nah......it's not resilience. it's called being lazy........lol

 

[Hadron]

I use BitWarden. I use different platforms from different manufacturers, so being cross-platform is an essential requirement for me (which Samsung Pass fails to meet).

 

[The_Chief]

It was easy to export our vault from the one right into the other. To stay on topic, though, Samsung Pass is useful for frequently-accessed websites that are low security (like auto parts stores) that don't require Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

 

[cwcheese]

I've been using KeePass for password management because I have full control of my password database, it's not beholden to anyone's cloud like Lastpass or Dashlane, or even Samsung. KeePass for Android lets me share the database file concurrently with my laptop running KeePassXC for browsers, and it is quite powerful, though more challenging to set up since you have to install plugins for each browser separately. It features the strong password creation the others do but the security of owning your own data instead of trusting an online vendor who will most certainly be hacked at some point in time.

 

[AugieTN]

Keep in mind, on the Black Web there are people that spend all day hacking servers. It's like a hacker's competition, and if they hack a server a strong generated password won't mean much.