First Bitwarden password manager update of 2025 improves password auto-fill

Martin Brinkmann
Jan 16, 2025
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Bitwarden is an open source password management solution that we have mentioned and recommended several times here on this site in the past.

The developers have released the first major update of 2025. It is available already for all supported platforms and includes a number of important changes and improvements.

Bitwarden published the changelog on its official website. A core change improves auto fill.

Auto Fill improvements

All browser extensions support the improvement. Up until now, you had to use the Fill-button to fill out login information automatically.

Once the update is installed, you may initiate the process by simply clicking on an entry. This functionality is not enabled by default, but you can enable it in the following way:

  1. Select Settings > Autofill.
  2. Toggle "Click items to autofill on Vault view" to enable the feature.

Once enabled, clicking on a vault item will paste the data into the web form on the active webpage. To view an item from the menu, select the three-dots menu and then the view option to do so.

The second auto fill related feature improves the entering of TOTP-codes using browser extensions. Bitwarden supports two-factor authentication codes for quite some time. These need to be entered as a second authentication step, provided that you have configured this extra layer off protection.

With the update installed, it is now possible to use the inline menu to enter TOTP codes on websites. It is necessary to enable the inline autofill menu, if you have not done so already. Here is how that is done:

  1. Select Settings > Autofill.
  2. Locate "Show autofill suggestions on form fields" and pick the desired autofill memthod.

Bitwarden recommends to disable the autofill of the web browser to avoid conflicts.

Other improvements in Bitwarden

Bitwarden notes that password managed desktop apps that are downloaded via the Snap Store do support biometric unlocks after the installation of the update.

The remaining changes are mostly for Enterprise customers and organizations:

  • New Public API operation. GET operation added to /public/organization/subscription.
  • Remove Free Bitwarden Families sponsorship policy to prevent users from "redeeming a sponsored Families plan through their organization".
  • New integrations page added to the Admin console that provides Help Center links.
  • Provider members can no longer export client vaults.

Now it is your turn. Which password manager do you use and why? Have you tried Bitwarden in the past? Feel free to leave a comment down below.

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The makers of the password manager Bitwarden have released the first update of 2025. Here is what is new and changed.
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  1. Anonymous said on January 19, 2025 at 11:38 am
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    Password managers? Just write your password on a piece of paper, they’d have to break into your apartment to extract it from you, it’s safer.

    1. MickyFoley said on January 21, 2025 at 6:23 pm
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      Sure. Because everyone is just at home and has the time to write 15 symbols including upper- and lowercase, numbers and special symbols every damn time for the countless websites we’re using. And if you want to break my argument: Sure. Just calculate TOTP on paper too… Christ.

  2. Anonymous said on January 18, 2025 at 12:13 pm
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    @boris yes, it is.
    There is a whole underground of how to fool password managers into filling/autofilling on the web when they should not.
    Major area of interest for cybercrime and spooks. Though usually the bigger spook orgs like NSA can just pull the cloudsynced copy of your password manager file if they want it.

    Still not to be taken lightly, there is lots of scum out there with less resources who will try to fool plugings such as the one mentioned in this article.

  3. boris said on January 16, 2025 at 3:33 pm
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    I thought autofill is dangerous and should never be used.

    1. Anonymous said on January 16, 2025 at 7:00 pm
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      Open settings, as above and read the options. ‘Autofill on page load’ is the risky one. https://bitwarden.com/help/auto-fill-browser/

    2. Tom Hawack said on January 16, 2025 at 4:57 pm
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      “Click items to autofill on Vault view” is a bit ambiguous. In this context it means that you’ll fill by clicking on the item’s name rather than on the default “Fill” appearing to the right of the item’s name, as it was originally in previous versions of Bitwarden. You remain the decision-maker. Nothing to do with autofill “automatically” so to say on page display which is indeed not advised.

      Bitwarden user here. Works flawlessly in my experience and is far liter than other password managers.

  4. Anonymous said on January 16, 2025 at 1:43 pm
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    Only Snap releases get biometric unlocks!? Installing Linux Mint was a mistake, what am I supposed to do now?

  5. Taomyn said on January 16, 2025 at 1:26 pm
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    In my case for both Edge and Brave, the fill button was new last year with the new look and the old behaviour was simply clicking it.

    Also, the update is still not available for Brave/Chrome although it is for Edge. It’s annoying as there’s are serious fixes for the last 2024-12 release.

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