Password managers are primarily intended to securely save your login credentials for each website, service, and application you use. They’re great at this job, but they also offer a host of other useful features too. For example, if you use the browser extension offered by your password manager, you can make use of auto-fill. This automatically detects login forms for which you … [Read more...] about Bitwarden: How to View the Full Details of an Entry
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Bitwarden: How to Change Your Email Address
Generally, most people have one or two personal email addresses as well as a work email account. Often you will keep these email accounts for a long time. Occasionally, however, you may need to change your email address. For example, if your email provider stops their service, you will need to switch to a new provider. You may also choose to switch to a different email service … [Read more...] about Bitwarden: How to Change Your Email Address
Bitwarden: How to Change Your Master Password
When you set up an account, you need to give it a password. When using a password manager, you can use unique and incredibly long and complex passwords for each site. This is obviously very secure, as these passwords will be essentially impossible to ever guess. … [Read more...] about Bitwarden: How to Change Your Master Password
Bitwarden: How to Check If Your Username Is Part of a Data Breach
Online security is important, and your accounts' security is determined by how secure your password is. This is why it’s important to make your passwords long and complex; they end up being harder to guess. Unfortunately, no matter how good your passwords are, at some point, you’re likely to be involved in some sort of data breach. … [Read more...] about Bitwarden: How to Check If Your Username Is Part of a Data Breach
Bitwarden: How to Change Your Master Password Hint
A password manager is an empathetic and important account and piece of software. Obviously, it would be catastrophically bad if one was ever found to be malicious and stealing passwords from its entire user base. However, this isn’t the only risk as a password manager is a single point of failure. Possibly the worst thing that can happen to you is that you forget your master … [Read more...] about Bitwarden: How to Change Your Master Password Hint
Bitwarden: How to Change Your Name
When you create an account with any website, you can generally create a username that you like. In many apps, your username must be unique as it can be used to sign in. In Bitwarden, this isn’t the case; you always need to use your email address to sign in. Your name is only used to refer to you when you are signed in. You can see this when you click on the profile dropdown … [Read more...] about Bitwarden: How to Change Your Name
How to Import Your Passwords into Bitwarden
Generally, people like to stick with what they know. This stays true with software, where you can learn all the ins and outs of your preferred program yet struggle to do complex or even simple tasks in an alternative you’re not familiar with. Nevertheless, sometimes it’s imperative to change. Commonly in software, the driving force behind this decision to change would be either … [Read more...] about How to Import Your Passwords into Bitwarden
Bitwarden: How to Manually Autofill a Login Form
One of the best features that password managers offer is autofill. The concept of automatically entering your login details is straightforward, but having the feature work is a really great user experience. To ensure that credentials entered are for the correct website, autofill only works for configured entries with a URL. It also requires you to use a site that matches the … [Read more...] about Bitwarden: How to Manually Autofill a Login Form
Bitwarden: How to Copy the Username and Password of an Entry
Having a password manager securely stores your credentials for you can be great for giving you peace of mind. Doing so makes it a lot easier to follow security best practices and use unique, long, and complex passwords for each service. Autofill is a fantastic feature offered by many password managers, including Bitwarden. To make use of Bitwarden’s autofill feature, you need … [Read more...] about Bitwarden: How to Copy the Username and Password of an Entry
Bitwarden: How to Open the URL Associated with an Entry
Password managers contain a whole range of features designed to make your life easier. Their main purpose is to securely store your passwords, so you don’t have to remember them all. This is intended to allow you to choose unique, longer, and more complex passwords for each service you have an account with. … [Read more...] about Bitwarden: How to Open the URL Associated with an Entry