Deja vu - I'm Like a New User Again
I found myself once again looking at Simplifi with new eyes. This time, while setting up a new-to-me MacBook Pro laptop. The biggest thing is, I've been using Windows machines since at least Windows XP and now I find myself venturing into foreign territory. Apple/Mac/Safari/whatever is such a foreign concept that I can barely even type!
Here's what I know:
- Best I can tell, there isn't an app for the MacBook Pro.
- I figured out how to add a shortcut for Simplifi to that weird scrolling bar of icons at the bottom of the screen. Technically, I think what I added is just a Safari page that looks like an app…not an actual, official app.
- I have an iPhone and an iPad.
- I use LastPass. I have LastPass working in Safari on my iPhone and iPad, but can't for the life of me figure out how to get LastPass to autofill Simplifi's U/P in the 'applet' thing.
Any advice with anything would be greatly appreciated!
Chris
Spreadsheet user since forever.
Quicken Desktop user since 2014.
Quicken Simplifi user since 2021.
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I use Chrome on my MacBook Air even though I know Safari is the default Mac Browser. I read somewhere that Chrome is built on WebKit, which i think i read came from Safari. I just have all my passwords on Chrome, plus i know it's cross-platform — if i moved my passwords to Safari they wouldn't follow me to Android and Windows.
I myself recently got a Surface Pro 11, and am now mostly moving from MacOS to Windows!! I still need Mac to maintain my App store app, but I love my SP11. (EDIT: I should point out, yes, I have a limited budget, but Thanks go to Best Buy for the free product!)
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Rob Wilkens0 -
Has anyone figured out how to use LastPass to autofill the password in a Safari app that’s saved/ opened from the dock on a MacBook Pro? I figured it out how to autofill Safari’s U/P when opened from directly within Safari and directly from within Google Chrome; just not when Simplifi is opened directly from the dock.
Chris
Spreadsheet user since forever.
Quicken Desktop user since 2014.
Quicken Simplifi user since 2021.0 -
I can only speculate with no claim to anything Apple. But, since the instance of QS is actually an instance of the web browser you set it up from, I would think that the instance of QS would get the information from that browser's vault where passwords are stored. No idea how to get the two to communicate if it doesn't do it automatically behind the scenes.
I know, not much help at all… hopefully a Mac user will come a long soon.
Danny
Simplifi user since 01/22
”Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.” ~A.A. Latimer0 -
Thanks @RobWilk and @DannyB ! I also contacted LastPass support, so we’ll see where that goes. Not being familiar with Apple computers, I don’t even have a baseline to know what “normal” is. I can see where if I was using Apple’s built in ?Keychain? password manager, it would work in both places. Still, I’m partial to LastPass despite all their shortcomings.
Chris
Spreadsheet user since forever.
Quicken Desktop user since 2014.
Quicken Simplifi user since 2021.1 -
Have you considered running Chrome? (or some people like Brave, or Edge) - Maybe one of those works better with LastPass. I've been using mac's about 2-3 years, but I don't use Safari and I don't use LastPass.
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Rob Wilkens0 -
@Flopbot, from past research done by our product team, they found that we can't support LastPass. Here's an old thread where you posted a workaround —
This thread was archived, but I will un-archive it for a month or so to allow everyone the chance to review it. Hopefully you can get your workaround to work on your new computer!
-Coach Natalie
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Yes, I do have Chrome installed (red arrow) and may end up defaulting to that. However, it’s so elegant/efficient just having the Simplifi icon to click on (yellow arrow) in the dock.
Chris
Spreadsheet user since forever.
Quicken Desktop user since 2014.
Quicken Simplifi user since 2021.0 -
You might be able to make a simplify icon with Chrome as well (I believe you can). It's somewhere on the chrome menu, might say install app or make shortcut - I believe there's a way to pin that to the launch bar on bottom.
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Rob Wilkens0 -
I've done that with Simplifi and it works great.
In Chrome, click Settings (the 3 vertical dots) > Save and Share > Install Page as App
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Thanks @RobWilk and @EL1234 ! That worked!
When done from Safari, it didn't work with LastPass…
When done from Google Chrome, it did work with LastPass…
The Chrome icon/button is uglier and oversized for sure, but at least it works!
Here's where I set it up…
Chris
Spreadsheet user since forever.
Quicken Desktop user since 2014.
Quicken Simplifi user since 2021.3 -
@Flopbot I use it on iMac with no problems. When I make a shortcut, I go to file and choose the "Add to Dock". This makes it into a Safari App. It works just fine for me. I have also used Chromium (this is Chrome without the Google junk) and that works well too. I have only Apple (iPad, iPhone, iMac) so all my passwords are saved across the platform.
Steve
Quicken Simplifi (Safari & iOS) Since 2021
Quicken Classic (MacOS) Since 2009
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