iOS 11 it will have a function that I'm sure many of you will appreciate on your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, related to the applications we use daily. More precisely, starting with iOS 11 we will be able to retrieve from Safari the data regarding the usernames and passwords used in various online services and we will be able to use them to log in to the third-party applications of those services.
Everything happens automatically in iOS 11 when we reach the login menu of a third-party application for which we have saved a password and a username. At that moment, the iOS 11 keyboard will display the icon of a key, and when pressed, we will be asked to authorize with Touch ID the retrieval of the data saved in Safari, they being automatically entered in the login fields in the application.
You can see in the image below what this new function looks like, prepared for iOS 11, it has actually been available for several years. Until now, developers had to implement support for it in applications, but starting with iOS 11, Apple automatically activates it for all applications without waiting for developers, and this will simplify our lives.
Practically, from iOS 11 we will no longer have to write usernames and passwords for logging in anywhere, as long as they were entered at some point in Safari and are already saved in iCloud Keychain.
