stay logged in on Confluence Mobile

Question

I'm using Confluence Cloud from my Android device, a Google Pixel phone. I want Confluence to stay logged in as this is my personal device and my personal Confluence wiki. I want to be able to take a quick note without having to go through its very tedious login process so often. It won't even remember my email address, CF site address, or my password. I understand how it needs to default in favor of security but can I change this?

Paul Topping · Answer

Not "remember the password" but remember everything else. Although, as you point out, there is s/w that will remember passwords, I don't expect Confluence to directly implement that for security reasons. However, there are no security implications to remembering a wiki's URL and very little to remembering an email address.

I am looking for a personal wiki. I don't expect there to be any others users but myself. There are other products that call themselves personal wikis that might serve my purposes better. I chose Confluence simply because I am already familiar with it in a different context. I was hoping to avoid learning yet another product. It would be a real shame if CF can't work in this scenario.

I will avoid logging out and see whether it works for me. Thanks for your help.

Maarten Cautreels · Answer

If you logout on one device you will be logged out on all other devices. That might explain why you should login on your mobile a lot.

And yeah it's a missing feature in the app to remember the password. You can however get that to work with a password manager like LastPass.

Best,

Maarten

Paul Topping · Answer

Possibly. I expect to use CF cloud from my two desktops (work and home) and my mobile phone. Are you saying that if I don't log out of any of them, I shouldn't be asked to login from any of them for a "long time"? Will that survive browser/app and/or computer/phone restarts?

Still don't understand why the mobile app won't remember all but the password like most similar apps.