Safari: Can I Disable "Use Strong Password" prompt?

[Jodeo]

Whenever I create an account I'm greeted with the ever-annoying "Safari created a strong password for this website" prompt.

I prefer NOT to use Safari's suggestions and would rather never see this prompt again.

How can it be disabled? I checked Safari preferences and System Preferences, but no luck.

Thank you.

 

[willmtaylor]

Whenever I create an account I'm greeted with the ever-annoying "Safari created a strong password for this website" prompt.

I prefer NOT to use Safari's suggestions and would rather never see this prompt again.

How can it be disabled? I checked Safari preferences and System Preferences, but no luck.

Thank you.

Disable autofill.

 

[Jodeo]

Disable autofill.

So I can either have auto-fill populate fields for me AND have this prompt, or have no auto-fill at all?

 

[willmtaylor]

So I can either have auto-fill populate fields for me AND have this prompt, or have no auto-fill at all?

AFAIK, that is (unfortunately) correct.

 

[mj_]

That prompt is driving me nuts, too. It's infuriating how annoying macOS has become.

 

[willmtaylor]

That prompt is driving me nuts, too. It's infuriating how annoying macOS has become.

Do you really create new accounts that often for it to be such an infuriating issue?

 

[Jodeo]

Do you really create new accounts that often for it to be such an infuriating issue?

Yes.

 

[mj_]

Do you really create new accounts that often for it to be such an infuriating issue?

If only it were so simple The issue is that Safari seems to consider the login window on many websites a registration form and prompts me to use a safe password to register when really all I want is to to log in. What's infuriating is the fact that this dialog/prompt is modal and I have to first manually click it away before I can proceed to log in instead.

 

[question fear]

If only it were so simple The issue is that Safari seems to consider the login window on many websites a registration form and prompts me to use a safe password to register when really all I want is to to log in. What's infuriating is the fact that this dialog/prompt is modal and I have to first manually click it away before I can proceed to log in instead.

Yup. I have the same issue when I try to log remotely into my office-it thinks the security code/password setup is a prompt to set up a new password and offers to create a strong one for me every time.

It's not a huge deal, but I would love a "not for this website" option...that's all it would take!

 

[posguy99]

How can it be disabled? I checked Safari preferences and System Preferences, but no luck.

Turn off iCloud Keychain.

 

[mogtron]

I googled this problem and ended up here. Very dismayed to hear there is no fix.

 

[a2jack]

Dump Safari and go to Firefox. That should fix it. Yes ?

 

[willmtaylor]

Dump Safari and go to Firefox. That should fix it. Yes ?

No. It avoids it. The two are not the same.

 

[Brien]

2 years later and still no option. boo.

 

[posguy99]

Old thread, but I thought I'd comment. I never see this. I assume it's because iCloud Keychain is disabled. Trust information like that to Apple? Not hardly.

 

[Brien]

True.

Counter-point though... nobody uses unique passwords on every login. And EVERYTHING needs an account now.

So these kinds of things are nearly required now.

 

[posguy99]

Counter-point though... nobody uses unique passwords on every login. And EVERYTHING needs an account now.

I do. I'm not about to trust Apple's half-*ssed iCloud to keep track of them, however.

 

[Davestevebob]

here just to make this more annoying, why they do it. Its to make you totally dependent on Apple. Thats the full reason to hell with what you want, you will be forced to need them. I hate how maggoty apple is becoming. and why in the flying F can't they fix the god damn "." Deleting the last letter of the last word in a sentence. And its not like the internet can give an answer for anything anyway, its where all the maggotayness in tech came from. this is a Mac forum and the keyboard still Fs up. Pathetic

 

[Wordwise]

Whenever I create an account I'm greeted with the ever-annoying "Safari created a strong password for this website" prompt.

I prefer NOT to use Safari's suggestions and would rather never see this prompt again.

How can it be disabled? I checked Safari preferences and System Preferences, but no luck.

Thank you.

FWIW, whenever you get the prompt for a strong password and don't want to use that, simply click 'Don't use'. Then, enter your preferred password, and Safari will remember *that* one instead and log you in during subsequent times. You can also 'see' the passwords in the Safari Preferences for passwords...

 

[Basic75]

FWIW, whenever you get the prompt for a strong password and don't want to use that, simply click 'Don't use'. Then, enter your preferred password, and Safari will remember *that* one instead and log you in during subsequent times. You can also 'see' the passwords in the Safari Preferences for passwords...

Doesn't fix the websites where the detection is broken and it suggests a new password every time you are just trying to log in.

 

[Brien]

here just to make this more annoying, why they do it. Its to make you totally dependent on Apple. Thats the full reason to hell with what you want, you will be forced to need them. I hate how maggoty apple is becoming. and why in the flying F can't they fix the god damn "." Deleting the last letter of the last word in a sentence. And its not like the internet can give an answer for anything anyway, its where all the maggotayness in tech came from. this is a Mac forum and the keyboard still Fs up. Pathetic

I don't mind staying in the eco system, it's the 'our way or the highway' aspect that will drive power users etc. nuts. IMO.

 

[williamkey123]

Do you really create new accounts that often for it to be such an infuriating issue?

I write and test software. So yes, I create dozens of test accounts every day.

So annoying that there is no way to turn this off. And the "don't use" option is now buried one level deeper, so it takes two clicks to click it now rather than one.

 

[BsdGuru]

Man, do we miss Steve Jobs. He would never allow this nonsense. Imagine a world where passwords are so complex that we have to write them down and keep them in our wallet. How is that for "security"; Imagine your bankcard password written on the back of the card so you can remember it to get cash.

 

[KassyKat]

Five years later and this annoying, useless feature still has not been fixed. Like @williamkey123, I work on software and create and kill a dozens accounts a day. If I have to go through this BS every time I'm working on software, I'm going to make my Linux box my main system and Apple can go fry an egg.

 

[williamkey123]

Five years later and this annoying, useless feature still has not been fixed. Like @williamkey123, I work on software and create and kill a dozens accounts a day. If I have to go through this BS every time I'm working on software, I'm going to make my Linux box my main system and Apple can go fry an egg.

I don’t agree it’s useless, this is the preferable behavior for 99% of users. Just annoying there’s no way to disable it for the other 1% that frequently don’t need it.