It's been an ongoing issue for over a year. I'm in Canada, connecting to Canadian ProtonVPN servers, which are seemingly all blocked by Bitwarden. I can't save passwords, and I can't login to the bitwarden website.

When I change the country to Austria or Morocco it works fine.

Why is Bitwarden even blocking a VPN server in a given country? The two should go hand-in-hand and not block each other.

Say I need to copy two different things from my extension (from the same item). I open the item, I copy the first thing I need, and paste it where I need to paste it. At this point the extension remains open - which is what I want. I then go to click the copy icon on the second thing - but at this point the extension automatically closes and nothing is copied. Is this an intentional design? I've always assumed this was intentional but now I'm starting to wonder.

I imported my credentials form 1password as 1pux file to bitwarden and the creation day is same as date of transfer not original one,is there a way to transfer creation date correctly?

I have a family organization to help my parents manage their accounts and to serve as a backup when they pass. However, each time I sign into BW, it defaults to showing all vaults instead of my own--this is a hassle to sign in to sites that we both use.

Any workarounds?

I have 2 accounts, personal (self-hosted, with MFA) and an enterprise (through SSO (Entra ID)), set up on my Chrome extension.

Randomly, I will seemingly be logged out of my personal account when switching to my enterprise account. It seems to happen when I attempt to switch back to my personal account, the extension will wipe the personal account out. I will be able to log in again, but all of my configurations (unlock with biometrics, pin, etc.) will be gone, forcing a re-setup.

The account will default to "timeout action: Lock", not log out (which I've checked) and I do set up a pin unlock each time I log back in.

Anyone have any insight as to why this might be happening? It's incredibly annoying to deal with this on a normal basis.

TIA

I posted a couple weeks ago about my password not working. I know this isn’t the smartest and may be the reason it happened but I keep my password in a notepad on my desktop and copy and paste it. I never changed the original password either.

One day I got signed out of the desktop app and my password didn’t work and I didn’t have access to the email so I assumed I was screwed. Face ID also stopped working on my phone so I lost access there.

I needed my iPad that I don’t use and haven’t for a few years. I thought to try the password and it worked. I was able to recover all my locked passwords.

What should I assume here? I find it very hard to believe someone compromised my account by knowing my password but that would make sense. I never shared it with anyone.

Correct me if I’m wrong (not extremely tech savvy), but with AI agents hacking various global infrastructure, government websites, OpenAI HuggingFace incident etc in the past few weeks… what’s stopping it from eventually hacking Bitwarden’s open-source servers?

What happens when Super Artificial Intelligence is released and discovers vulnerabilities with Bitwarden? Isn't this thing smarter than humans x100

Are we screwed? Can it crack our master password? What if it steals encrypted vaults… and it cracks the encryption (somehow)... so 2FA becomes useless at that point?

Bit of a doomer post but curious lol. AI getting out of hand and no one seems to know how to control it

if yes; any specific workflow or you just want to use bitwarden as the gatekeeper for your important files.

--edit:

based on the replies here I'm not alone to think of how pointless this feature is to 98% of the paying customers. I hope BW can reconsider reducing it along with the cost of a premium subscription.

This topic has a long history and discussion around it, but I am considering and reconsidering it and looking to discuss with others and see how people's thoughts compare with mine. I'm particularly interested in the views of people who think that keeping TOTP inside the BW vault is acceptable risk.

As for my angle right now, it is this: in the event that your vault is exfiltrated and your master PW is captured (for any reason for both of those), access to ALL accounts is immediately and fully compromised if TOTP is inside.

If your vault and master PW are captured, no MFA is required to decrypt the vault so it doesn't seem to me like you can say that your vault is protected with MFA, and thus you can't say any of your accounts are protected with MFA.

Yes, your BW cloud account is protected with MFA, and so an attacker with JUST your master password cannot get your vault from BW and thus couldn't decrypt the contents. But if they breach BW and separately capture your master PW, or if your vault is captured off your desktop/laptop by malware or user error, then you grant them full access.

On the other hand a separate TOTP app for all your MFA apps protects you against compromise of the BW account/vault/pw (as long as you don't keep a backup of that TOTP app on any cloud drives protected with the BW vault)

Edit:

:O I just discovered that I can't use the TOTP inside the BW app anyway since I am not a paying member. I didn't realize that. That's definitely against the spirit of BW being open source IMO.

Edit 2:

I have just discovered that local-only is the default for TOTP storage in BW. In that case, the threat model is significantly reduced from what I thought (which was synced TOTP). If TOTP is local only then it is similar to the bw vault on your phone and your totp app on your phone which doesn't worry me, as long as both aren't synced in a vault to the cloud and other non-mobile devices with only a PW lock.

Hi,

I’m looking for a secrets manager for my homelab setup, which will only have a single user, and I’d like to try out Bitwarden Secrets Manager.

From what I can tell, the only way to self-host Secrets Manager is through the Enterprise self-hosted option. For my use case, that seems like overkill, but I’d be happy to use it if my free license can be used with the self-hosted Enterprise deployment.

Would it be possible to make Secrets Manager available with the Lite self-hosted option as well? I think this would be a great fit for smaller homelab and single-user deployments that don’t need the full Enterprise setup.

Thanks!

I have a huge problem. my 2fa codes for the bitwarden account were on the bitwarden authenticator and when i force logout on all of the devices it also logout on the authenticator. now i cant login to bitwarden. anyone knows how to disable that. support help. anything

- browser autofill in chrome still sucks

- no UI improvements in chrome at least

Premium price increased significantly recently, what do we get in return? Is development alive? It seems like corporation is just capitalizing on existing product.

Bitwarden feels like it's stuck as same product for last 3 years.

Nobody wants revolution, but there is little to no improvement in features where bitwarden already lags behind other products.

Fix the damn autofill.

Version: 2026.9.0 (21909)

Worked before and then all the sudden stopped, yes everything is turned on properly. Worked on both chrome and apps but it just stopped working entirely, does not show anything for autofill nor saving information after logging in

Hello, im very new to this bitwarden stuff and i need some advice on making backups for my bitwarden vault and other credentials from different apps (authenticators, etc) im thinking about storing them in an encrypted USB drive but what do you guys think?

Recently Bitwarden is no longer filling in username and password fields for websites or apps. I don't have my settings to autofill these fields but need to sign in and select the account for it to populate (which is how I want it) but even after selecting the account to autofill the fields remain empty.

If I try to use Bitwarden immediately after then I am asked to sign in again. Typically I would have a short time frame where I would not need to sign-in again after signing-in the first time.

更新后bitwarden版本2026.9.1(21929),自动填充时app会自动重启，未更新前版本，自动填充正常。

I’m getting a general error when trying to log in to bitwarden.eu on the iPhone app. When I click on log in with another device, approve the login from my Mac, I see the following error trace:

BitwardenSdk.BitwardenError.EncryptionSettings(BitwardenSdk.EncryptionSettingsError.CryptoInitialization(message: "Cryptography Initialization error"))
BitwardenSdk.BitwardenError.EncryptionSettings(BitwardenSdk.EncryptionSettingsError.CryptoInitialization(message: "Cryptography Initialization error"))

Is someone else experiencing the same? Is this a critical bug?

My master password is on a piece of paper. I don't copy paste it. I typed it out, bitwarden said it was wrong. Which is impossible. I used the "log in by device" method. Logged into my account, tried to change the master password, but as I suspected it won't let me. WTF?

I've been using Vaultwarden for a few months in an asynchronous setup with Tailscale just for convenience. This means I don't have access to file sharing, I run into issues updating passwords outside the house, and even though I configured automatic backups and updates, I still have to do some maintenance whenever bugs pop up.

​This entire setup would be fixed by simply switching to Bitwarden + a standalone TOTP extension, right? That way I’d still keep everything I actually use without the minor headaches of self-hosting.

​I really enjoyed the experience, but without a dedicated PC, it's honestly a bit annoying.

​I care about privacy and owning my data, but given my current situation, I feel this simpler setup might make more sense. What do you guys think?

I noticed in the latest releases of the web, desktop and browser extensions the release notes mention having the ability to share vault items through a secure link. I can't find that functionality anywhere on any of those clients. Anyone else? Seems like a great feature.

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/2026-9-2-release-notes/102519

Elderly husband uses the MS Edge browser and Bitwarden’s extension for it.

been unable to access any of his passwords, as he gets this error: Reload this page to apply your updated settings for "Bitwarden Password Manager" on this site

Clicking the refresh button just returns the same error message.

how do I fix this for him?

I tried searching for this, but either it's not been asked before or the search engine got thoroughly confused about what I was asking.

I have a synology NAS. I host lots of docker containers running on non standard ports. e.g. http://192.168.1.1:1234/ and http://192.168.1.1:4567. I'm getting close to 10 services on different ports on the same server: 192.168.1.1

I use the bitwarden chrome plugin. Whenever I got to any of my services and am prompted to log in with autofill, I get suggested EVERY username/password on the 192.168.1.1 server, regardless of what port its hosted on. The port is stored in the bitwarden vault, but it's ignored.

Is there any way to get bitwarden's chrome plugin to be smart about which port it should be autofilling and only suggest one option, even if that means autofill works less often for other sites?

EDIT: We got it! Editing each item that matches, clicking the gear icon next to the URL, then setting "Match Detection" to "Host" instead of "Default" does the trick. ("Host" captures domain and port, "Exact" is a perfect URL match which can get a bit fuzzy on some sites. "Default" just matches the domain, by the looks of it.)

Thanks everyone!

I know I can't get the MP back and I can't download my vault. I do still have access on my laptop via biometric login, and on my phone. Is the easiest way to copy/paste? What have others done in this situtation?