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[Problem/Bug]: The password save prompt does not appear
What happened?
There is a Windows Forms application with a login feature implemented using WebView2 (introduced in September 2024). Until mid-January 2025, password saving was being suggested after logging in, but since around January 22, the suggestion to save the password suddenly stopped appearing. (This happens across all environments with Windows 10 and 11.) During this period, no changes were made to the Windows application, login form HTML, or JS.
Upon investigation, I found that when I reverted the WebView2 Runtime version from "132.0.2957.127" to "131.0.2903.146" via Group Policy, the password saving suggestion reappeared. Based on these results, I suspect that the issue is not on the application side but rather with the latest WebView2 Runtime version.
Do you think the reason for the disappearance of the password saving suggestion is a bug in the Runtime, or is it due to a change in specifications? (I checked the release notes, but I couldn't find any information related to password saving.)
If it is a specification change that requires application-side adjustments, immediate action is necessary. I apologize for the inconvenience, but could you please investigate this urgently?
Importance
Moderate. My app's user experience is affected, but still usable.
Runtime Channel
Stable release (WebView2 Runtime)
Runtime Version
132.0.2957.127
SDK Version
1.0.2957.106
Framework
Winforms
Operating System
Windows 10
OS Version
Windows 10 Pro 22H2
Repro steps
Refer to the content.
Repros in Edge Browser
No, issue does not reproduce in the corresponding Edge version
Regression
No, this never worked
Last working version (if regression)
No response
It's almost been a month since the request. Please let me know the status of the investigation.
@XhosokawaX Thanks for reporting the issue and apologies for the delay in our response. We tried to repro this in Runtime version 133.0.3065.92 and we are able to reproduce this. We will get this assigned to someone for taking a deeper look.
Here is the internal tracking bug Bug 56530372: [GitHub #5079] [Problem/Bug]: The password save prompt does not appear
@Badhri It's been over a month, but what is the status of the investigation? I would like to know as soon as possible whether this is a bug or a feature.
It may be possible to overcome this issue by defining IsPasswordAutosaveEnabled=true within the scope of a CoreWebView2InitializationCompleted handler, or within the scope of a command-handler similar to how it is done in the WPF WebView2 sample app
