LastPass User Manual An easy to understand guide on how to use LastPass.

Android

LastPass for Android (1.5+) is an application that will allow you to carry your LastPass data around with you. As always, this data can only be unlocked using your email address and password.

As with all smartphone apps, LastPass for Android is part of our Premium offering and can be tested with a 14-day free trial.

If you do not wish to use the LastPass browser for Android, you can also:

1. Look into our Bookmarklets option, which offers limited access to fundamental LastPass features. In order to install bookmarklets, go to the LastPass app, log in, tap the menu button, tap 'more,' and then 'install bookmarklets.'
2. Use the LastPass extension for the Dolphin HD browser.
3. We offer an extension for FireFox Mobile on Android, but functionality is limited in this, and we recommend Dolphin HD, our LastPass app, or Bookmarklets instead.

Installing LastPass for Android

To install, open Google Play Store on your phone and search for LastPass.

If you would like to attempt a manual installation, you can download: https://lastpass.com/lpandroid.apk

Your LastPass Vault on Android

LastPass for Android features a built-in browser that will automatically fill your login information for each of your saved LastPass sites.

Once you have installed the LastPass Android app, tap the app icon to launch it to launch the login page. Tapping the 'Menu' button from this screen gives you access to the 'About' page, the 'Exit' option, and login 'Preferences':

 

Upon logging in you will be able to view your saved LastPass sites and secure notes, organized according to their Groups, in a searchable interface.

 

Tapping on a site will launch it in the LastPass browser and autofill your login data, while tapping on a Group name expands or compresses the Group.

To launch the Edit Site dialog, press down on a site entry and hold for two seconds. From the pop-up menu, you will be able to Edit the site fields, Copy Username, Copy Password, Copy URL, Add Copy Notifications, or Add a Shortcut to your Home page for this site entry.

 

The Edit Menu for a site looks very similar to the Edit menu you see on the full browser extension.  You can change the name of the entry, group, URL, username, password, designate it a as a Favorite, add a master password reprompt, or Never AutoFill.

 

Tapping the 'Menu' button on your Android device while viewing the Vault allows you access to the following menu options:

• Browser: Launches the built-in browser, where you can browse to all of your favorite sites. If you navigate to a site in the browser that has a stored entry in your Vault, LastPass will autofill your login data.
• Add Site: Allows you to manually save login data for a site.
• Add Secure Note: Enter and store sensitive data.
• Logoff: Logoff your LastPass account.
• Exit: Exit the LastPass application.
• More: Pops up the 'More' menu with the ability to view Preferences, Generate  password, change Identities, Refresh Sites, install Bookmarklets, view and add NEVER URLs, Clear Local Cache, and view the About page with the application build information.

Using the LastPass Android Browser

The LastPass Android App has a fully functioning browser within the app. This browser can automatically launch your sites, AutoFill in your login credentials, and can even automatically save new login credentials when you login for the first time. When you launch a site from your Vault, or hit the Menu button in the Vault and choose to go to the browser, you'll view a webpage like you would on any other browser.  Once in the browser, you can hit your Menu button and be offered a list of options to help your browsing experience.

1. AutoFill: AutoFill will automatically fill login credentials for the current site that the browser is on.
2. Fill Forms:  Will give you a selection of Fill Forms you have saved in your account to be used on the current page.
3. Go: Opens up the URL bar so you can navigate to a new page.
4. Refresh:  Refreshes the browser's view of the current page.
5. Forward: Goes forward to the page you had just visited.  Only available after navigating back by using the Android back arrow.
6. More: Offers you three more options: Save All Entered Data, Generate Password, and Go To LastPass.

Preferences

There are many useful and important preferences available for the Android application. Preferences are found under the Menu button > More > when in your Vault.

1. Password reprompt on Activate: Enables LastPass to prompt for your master password every time you enter the app.
2. Pin Code on reprompt: Replaces the master password reprompt with a 4 digit pin code reprompt.
3. Reprompt Background minutes: Allows you to set a time limit so you are not prompted for your PIN for "X" minutes.
4. Enable Fast decryption: Enables the app to use the fastest decryption possible. This should only be disabled if the app is crashing.
5. Enable Icons: Enables your site favicons to be viewed in your Vault.
6. Enable Logging: Enables error logging by the LastPass app in the case of an internal error or app crash.
7. Enable Background: This enables or disables the background in the LastPass app. Some older phones need this disabled in order to run the app properly.
8. Enable Logged In Notification: Enables a LastPass icon in your notification bar to signal an active login.
9. Check Login on Activate:  When the LastPass app is brought to the foreground (after you've been using other apps), this option forces the app check to see if the session has been killed on the server .. if so, LastPass will logoff.  This forces you to login again, and forces an update from the server.  This is a very useful feature for users who often kill their sessions via the server, or are concerned about losing their phone or mobile device.
10. Logoff Background Minutes:  Setting a time limit for this feature will ensure that your LastPass app logs off after X minutes of LastPass being logged in, but in the background of your device.  This is another good security feature to use when concerned about the loss or theft of a mobile device.

 

1. Browser Home Page: Sets the LastPass browser's home page.
2. Default Site Action:  Enables you to change the default actions taken when you tap a site in your Vault.  The options are Edit Site, Launch Site, Add Copy Notifications.
3. Launch To: Enables you to change whether LastPass launces a site in the LastPass browser or your default browser.
4. Set Default Browser: Set's the LastPass browser as your default browser on Android.
5. Enable LastPass Browser: Gives you the option to Enable or disable the browser portion of the LastPass app.
6. Enables LastPass Input Method:  Enables the LastPass Input Method.
7. Local Data Location:  Allows you to change the location of locally cached data from the default location to your memory card.

 

Using LastPass to Login to Apps on Android

There are two ways main ways to use LastPass for Android to login to other apps.  The most simple way is the Add Copy Notifications method, and is detailed below.  The second way is the LastPass Input Method, and has it has its own set of directions.

With the LastPass application running, hold down on the entry in LastPass for the application until the menu comes up.

Choose: "Add Copy Notifications"

Now go to your app. You'll see in the notifications bar we've added a Copy Username and Copy Password. These buttons will help you put the username and password into the app.  You simply need to select them from the Notifications bar, and they will copy to your clipboard, and you can then paste your username and password into your app login!  You'll have to do each separately.