How To Fix Android 15 Blocking Authenticator As Password Autofill Provider On Intune HTML Blog

Important Points

• Android 15 blocking Authenticator as Password AutoFill.
• A new policy (Credential Provider Policy) now governs this.
• Intune doesn’t currently supports this setting.
• That’s why autofill is displayed Blocked with work policies.

In this post we will discuss how Repair Android 15 Block Authenticator as a Password Autofill Provider in Intune. Organizations managing fully managed Android Enterprise devices through Microsoft Intune ran into problems afterward repair device to Android 15. The system password autofill setting becomes not available and displays as Blocked by work policy.

Troubleshooting Android 15 Blocked by Work Policy Autofill Issue in Intune

The main reason for this issue to occur is that Android 15 added a new internal control called Credential Provider Policy. This control decides whether the user can select or change it password autofill app. But currently, this setting is not available in Microsoft Intune admin center. This means IT admins can’t see it, change it, or activate it.

See More: Configure Android System Update Settings Using Intune

Why This Happens

When the device is updated to Android 15, Google changing how password autofill works in enterprises-managed telephone. Now, Android uses a new internal control called Credential Provider Policy to decide whether users can choose password autofill apps. Sometimes problems occur during:

• Credential Provider Policy is an Android Enterprise policy that controls whether a device can set or change autofill provider.
• In Android 14, this Setting is silently allowed by Microsoft Intune, although you can’t see it in admin center. Therefore, users can set apps like Microsoft Authenticator as a password autofill provider without any issues.
• But in Android 15, Now, if Intune doesn’t configure these settings clearly, Android automatically blocks them.

What are the consequences of these problems

This problem blocked migration for organizations moving from Android 14 to 15 autofill password stop working. Users cannot set password managers like Microsoft Authenticator as an autofill provider. This blocks normal passwords workflow in the organizational environment.

See other related limitations: Learn How to Simplify Android OS Updates using Intune

Solution

The MS tech community has discussed solutions to this less. We can say that there is no direct solution in this matter factory break option and deleting the restriction profile did not fix this problem. In this case some admins suggest to Defer Upgrade to Android 15 as a suggestion the Organization is advised to stay put Android 14 for fully managed enterprise devices if autofill password that’s important. Since the issue only appears after upgrading to Android 15, delaying the upgrade will avoid the problem.

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Anoop C Nairhas been a Microsoft MVP for 10 consecutive years from 2015 onwards. He is a Workplace Solutions Architect with over 22+ years of experience in the Workplace technology space. He is a leader of the Community of Bloggers, Speakers, and Local User Groups. The main focus is on Device Management technologies such as SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career, etc.