Autofill only allows "Hide My Email" on iOS

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Description of the issue:

I can only autofill “Hide My Email” in email entry boxes. One button actually does the hide my email feature however the other just puts “Hide My Email” in the email field making it useless. I have no option to actually use my own email.

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Go to a website with an email entry form.
  2. Click in the email entry field.
  3. I am given “Hide My Email” and “Hide My Email” options and not my actual email address to use.

Expected result:

Suggest to autofill my actual email from my contact card. Safari allows me to select which phone contact to use for my information and I expect Brave to be similar or allow my to change the autofill suggestions like on Desktop.

Brave Version( check About Brave):

1.74 (49)

Mobile Device details

iPhone 15 Pro version 18.3

Additional Information:

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This does not relate.

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Is anyone going to help?

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@jjeff

The link that I provided above, goes to some Apple information re the “Hide My Email” feature:

Create unique, random email addresses with Hide My Email and iCloud+

When you subscribe to iCloud+, you can generate unique, random email addresses with Hide My Email, so you don’t have to share your real email address when filling out a form on the web or signing up for a newsletter.

What you can do with Hide My Email

With Hide My Email, you can generate random email addresses on demand in the following locations:

Safari on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac when filling out a web form or creating an account for an app or website that doesn’t support Sign in with Apple

Mail on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac and on iCloud.com when composing a new email

Supported third-party apps on your iPhone and iPad wherever email addresses are required

Settings on your iPhone or iPad

System Settings on your Mac

So the question is: “Does Brave Browser now qualify as a ‘Supported third-party app on your iPhone and iPad wherever email addresses are required?’” (@Mattches ?)

I attempted to find information at GitHub > Brave, that would answer that question, but did not find confirmation that indicates, that Brave Browser is qualified:

Keyword: email (in:title)

“https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues?q=email%20is%3Aissue%20in%3Atitle%20sort%3Aupdated-desc%20%20”

Keyword: e-mail (in:title)

“https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues?q=e-mail%20is%3Aissue%20in%3Atitle%20sort%3Aupdated-desc%20%20”

Keywords: third party (in:title)

“https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues?q=third%20party%20is%3Aissue%20in%3Atitle%20sort%3Aupdated-desc%20%20”

Keyword: apple (in:title)

“https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues?q=apple%20is%3Aissue%20in%3Atitle%20sort%3Aupdated-desc%20%20”

Keyword: hide (in:title)

“https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues?q=hide%20is%3Aissue%20in%3Atitle%20sort%3Aupdated-desc%20%20”

Keywords: hide my (in:title)

“https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues?q=hide%20my%20is%3Aissue%20in%3Atitle%20sort%3Aupdated-desc%20%20”

Hide My Email - Setup:

@Rockstar9104 wrote about an extension for Brave Browser Desktop, that allows Hide My Email to work on Chrome desktop:

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Yeah – as stated in some of the links @289wk shared, we unfortunately do not have any control over this particular Apple feature.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

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Bump. This is stupid that brave doesn’t fix this

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@jjeff

Brave Browser is not an Apple-supported third-party app on your iOS device, wherever email addresses are required.

For that support to exist, you are stuck with being a leading advocate, impressing both Apple and Brave Browser with the usefulness of your requested feature.

In order to proceed, you might write up a detailed pathway (a map) for advancing your cause, and enter that at Github > Brave.

To which, you can point especially Apple developers, in addition to Brave developers.

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