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Notable bug fixes
The “contact form” used to send direct messages to Privowny App’s support team was not fully accessible to people with disabilities. Keyboard navigation has been improved and the form is now fully accessible.
The “Data distribution” graph in the Dashboard was misleading. Some text has been modified to make it clearer that the data shown is only a subset of data considered sensitive (passwords, credit-card numbers, etc.). If there are no data shown in the graph, it doesn’t mean that no data are present in the Data Manager, only that none of these sensitive data are kept in there at the moment.
It is now possible to enter long company names or data values in the Managers’ fields without them being cropped.
Known issues
expedia.com has a bug that blocks the creation of an account with an alias email address on some devices. This is not linked to the validity of the alias though, and you can use the same alias to create an account from a different device.
The charts on the Dashboard are sometimes wrongly identifying data collection as being off when it is actually activated. This issue has been mostly resolved, but persists in rare cases that are being investigated.
Notable change: Say hello to the Privowny Autofill for Android
For everyone using Android Oreo 8.0 and higher, Privowny App is introducing its brand-new Autofill feature with v1.32.
Just tap in a field on a login form to autofill your credentials saved in your Password or Alias Manager. (Some apps may require a long press in the field instead, but it’s really as simple as that!)
You want to create a new account and generate an alias and/or a strong password directly from the field as well? Same process: tap in the field (or long press if needed) and choose the right option in the menu.
The Privowny Autofill delivers the same results but is more intuitive and easier to use than the Smartfield Icon.
For the Privowny Autofill to work properly it needs to be enabled in the settings of your phone (the app will guide you to achieve this). It also means that Privowny App doesn’t need the “accessibility” permission anymore, which is a great improvement since we try to be as unintrusive as possible. It is important to us to only require from our users access what we expressly need for the product to work and nothing more.
Note that if you are using Android Oreo 8.0 and higher, the Smartfield Icon will actually no longer appear with this new version. If you haven’t upgraded your phone’s OS yet though, then don’t worry, the Smartfield Icon is still provided if that is all that is available to you; we certainly recommend that you upgrade soon and try the improved user experience we designed for you.
One caveat: Chrome does have a bug on their side and you may need to reboot your device (i.e., shut it off completely and turn it on again) for Autofill to work properly on this browser. Let’s hope they find a fix soon.
Notable bug fixes
The stability of the application has been greatly improved. Crashes were sometimes reported when trying to open the Settings, adding accounts from the Dashboard, using the “search” feature, or viewing a saved account. These have been fixed.
The link to the beta community was broken and has been fixed.
The Smartfield Icon was sometimes missing even though it should have been displayed. Fixed.
Known issue
expedia.com has a bug that blocks the creation of an account with an alias email address on some devices. This is not linked to the validity of the alias though, and you can use the same alias to create an account from a different device.
Notable bug fixes
The stability of the application has been improved. For example, users are now more often prompted to “retry” instead of simply being logged out of the app when an error occurs during the authentication process.
Quick actions from the home screen were not behaving properly when the app was closed.
Registering a new account with the Autofill would sometimes fail (the email address would not be filled automatically as it should for example).
The process to reset one’s Master Key and then try to decrypt an account was showing an inappropriate error message instead of just removing the indecipherable password.
Known issues
The Privowny Autofill feature has some limitations for retrieving credentials. This is fixed with the use of iOS 13.
expedia.com has a bug that blocks the creation of an account with an alias email address on some devices. This is not linked to the validity of the alias though, and you can use the same alias to create an account from a different device.