Until Android 13’s October 2022 launch, the textual content you copied to your telephone’s clipboard was non-public. You may see a affirmation message for the motion, however that was it—and that system labored completely for login data out of your password supervisor.

But apparently that conduct wasn’t passable. Now once you seize a little bit of textual content, a bubble that shows the string pops up within the decrease left of the display screen…and all textual content is honest recreation. This contains passwords (yikes!).

What occurred? In Android 13, app builders should mark copied textual content as delicate to maintain it non-public. Without that sign, the working system assumes that it’s plain textual content, match for the eyes to see (and edit, if you happen to faucet on the bubble). Some password managers have but to revise their cellular apps to accommodate this alteration, which may undermine the safety you’re hoping to protect. 

Not everybody can have this difficulty—if you happen to’re on a non-stock model of Android (like on a Samsung system), your telephone could behave otherwise. But if you happen to do run into it, it may be aggravating, significantly on Pixel telephones. Stock Android 13 doesn’t enable customers to disable this new function, a transfer concurrently infuriating as it’s perplexing.

Fortunately, you’re not caught together with your passwords exhibiting everytime you copy one to be used. You have two choices to revive your safety and each are easy.

Option 1: Give your password supervisor app autofill permissions

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To allow this function, open your Settings app, then seek for “autofill.” Select Autofill service, then faucet the present choice. Choose your password supervisor out of your choices.

Now once you create or enter a password, the flexibility to autofill out of your password supervisor will pop up when within the related kind discipline.

Option 2: Update your password supervisor

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Don’t really feel snug linking your password supervisor app to Android’s autofill function? A more recent model of your password supervisor could correctly mark your passwords as delicate knowledge.

In the Google Play app, faucet your avatar icon within the higher proper of the display screen, then select Manage apps & system. If an replace is obtainable, it will be listed beneath the entry for Updates obtainable. (If you don’t have any updates in any respect, the menu will say All apps updated.)

If the app has no updates or the newest replace doesn’t resolve this copying difficulty, examine if the app developer has moved on to a separate model of the app. For instance, 1Password made its model 7 and model 8 two utterly completely different apps. Only the newer model retains your passwords non-public when copied.

Should neither of those choices work, you may have two alternate options. One is reconsidering autofill. The different is to change password managers. (Yep.)

Of course, this function wouldn’t be a problem if all customers might simply flip it off. I personally get little utility out of it—if I have to see or edit my textual content, I’m on a PC.