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The password managers ("Passwords" and "Keychain Access") seem deliberately limited. A few issues that I noticed:

The discrepancy between the "Passwords" and "Keychain Access" app. Passwords manages 2FA codes whereas Keychain doesn't. Keychain allows you to add another URL for a password whereas Passwords doesn't. The latter issue often leads to headaches dealing with passwords when the URL of the login page is not the same as the URL for the second part of the 2FA.

An example that became unnecessarily frustrating. Heroku makes you login to dashboard.heroku.com but the 2FA code needs to be filled in at a salesforce URL. Since I can't add this salesforce URL to the existing password (+ 2FA code) I have to manually copy the code. The shortest routine I found for that is:

1. CMD+Space. 2. Enter "passw". 3. Click on the search bar. 4. Enter "Heroku". 5. Click on the password. 6. Go back to the web page to enter the displayed code.

Simply having the option to add another URL (which was possible in Keychain Access) would solve this entire issue...



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