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

iPhone

LastPass for iPhone (3+) is an application that will allow you to carry your LastPass data around with you and easily login to websites from your phone. LastPass for iPhone is a built-in browser that will automatically fill your login information for each of your stored LastPass sites while giving you access to most major features.

The iPhone application allows you to download all of your LastPass information from the server and store it in a secure, encrypted data-store that is saved to your iPhone. As always, this data can only be unlocked using your email address and Master Password.

As with all smartphone apps, LastPass for iPhone is part of our Premium offering.

Installing LastPass for iPhone

To install LastPass for iPhone open the App Store on your device and search for LastPass.

Logging into LastPass

LastPass for iPhone decrypts your data and displays all of your Secure Notes and Sites in a searchable interface. It also allows you to add, update, and delete Secure Notes and Sites and launch a browser to easily login to your sites.

After installing the LastPass browser application on your iPhone, you can launch the application by tapping on the icon. LastPass will then prompt you to enter your LastPass email and Master Password:

Login Offline:  Selecting this option forces you to login into your locally cached data in Offline Mode.  This is a good option if you have a poor connection or no connection at all.  This will allow you to view, edit, and add to your data as you normally would, and then next time you are in online mode, it will be synced to the server.   Please note, for Offline mode to be available, you will have had to have successfully logged into your account in Online Mode at least once before.

Once you submit your login credentials (in Online or Offline mode), LastPass will launch your searchable Vault.

The LastPass Vault

From the Vault page you will have access to all major LastPass features and options.  The first thing you will see is your sites tab, and a list of all sites you have in your LastPass account.  Tapping on any of these sites will bring up your site action menu:

This menu allows you to Copy your username to the iPhone clipboard, copy password, show the password in a a pop up dialog, Edit the site entry, Launch your site in the LastPass browser, or Copy Notes that you may have saved in the site entry.  Launching your site from Vault will AutoFill your login credentials for the particular site.  Look below for more information on web browsing using the LastPass iPhone app.

The next option in your Vault is the Edit site tab:

Editing Sites

This tab looks the same as your Vault tab, only in this tab, tapping on a site will bring up the Edit screen for any of the options you select.  You can also manually add new sites by tapping the + sign in the top right corner.  Below is a view of the Edit site screen.

This enables you to view and Edit the individual site data you have stored for each entry in your Vault.  The next tab, Notes, allows you to view, edit, and add Secure Notes.

Secure Notes

To launch a note and view it, simply tap on it.  To add a new note, hit the + in the top right corner of the page.  You'll see an option to create any number of Secure Note Formats:

Fill Forms

The Fill Forms tab allows you to view your Fill Form profiles and data:

Tapping on a Fill Form profile allows you to view the profile, and tapping on a specific field in a profile allows you to copy that value to the clipboard.

In this case, if you were tap on the State field, the value, Virginia, would be copied to your clipboard.

More Tab

The More Tab gives you access to a number of LastPass options and settings.

Actions

1. Logoff: Logs the current user out of the LastPass iPhone app.
2. Identity: Allows the user to switch in and out of various Identities.
3. Refresh: This forces your LastPass app to 'poll' the server for updates that may have been made to your account.   This will always update the server of any changes you have made on your iPhone.  By default these updates only happen on the iPhone when you use 'Refresh Sites' or when you login to your account.
4. Generate Password: Offers you the option to Generate Passwords on the iPad using the Generator.  See screenshot below.
5. Safari Bookmarklet: Takes you to a page in Safari where you can save a Bookmarklet that will automatically launch LastPass for you.
6. Browser: Launches the LastPass browser (built into the app).
7. About: Shows you the app version number and build date.

Settings:

1. Remember Email: Allows  LastPass to keep your e-mail remembered in the login screen to the app so you no longer have to type it in.
2. Remember Password: Allows LastPass to keep your master password remembered in the login screen to the app so you longer have to type it in.  This is not recommended, as it greatly decreases security, particularly on easily lost or stolen devices.
3. Logoff on Close: When enabled, this option will log you out of your account when the app is closed.  Please note, closing the app means completely 'killing' the app or turning off your iPhone.
4. Logoff on Idle: Setting a time limit for this option will log you out of your account when the app has been idle for "X" minutes.  In the screenshot above, the iPhone is set to Never logoff when idle.  Setting some time limit for this, even if extremely high, is a good security measure in the case your phone is lost or stolen.
5. Use Pin Code:  Allows you to set a four digit pin code to be asked for upon re-entry to the app after an initial login using your master password.  We highly recommend you use this if you leave yourself logged into LastPass Tab when leaving the app to multi-task.  See screenshot below.
6. Require pin after returning from background: Allows you to set a timer so you are only reprompted for your pin after 'X' minutes.  In the screenshot above the app is set to ask for the PIN after each time you leave the app and return to it from the background.
7. Logged in badge: In the Apple main launch screen the LastPass icon will have a (1) badge over it when you're logged in reminding you of this fact -- defaulted off.
8. Username in Vault: Adds a username in parentheses next to the site name in the vault screen -- defaulted to off.

By tapping on any of these bookmarklet links, you will be taken to a page in Safari that you can bookmark.  These bookmarklets will allow you to AutoFill, AutoLogin, and Form Fill in the Safari mobile browser.  The LastPass App cannot AutoFill in Safari, but only in the LastPass browser built into the app.  For more information on Bookmarklets, go to our Bookmarlet page.

Using the LastPass Browser on the iPhone

While you can use the LastPass app solely as a repository for your passwords, for the best experience we recommend that you use the built in browser to view and AutoFill your site logins.  To get to the LastPass browser, you can launch a site from your LastPass Vault, or you can launch the browser from the More Tab under Actions (see directly above).

When you launch a site from the LastPass Vault on your iPhone, it will automatically fill in your login credentials.  If you choose to manually navigate to a site using the browser, you can still select an AutoFill entry by selecting the LastPass asterisk at the bottom of the app.  You will then be presented with all your existing entries for the current site you are on.

After tapping on an entry, it will AutoFill into the login fields.  Tapping on the Form Fill icon (the silhouettes), will offer the same option with your Form Fill profiles.

Finally, hitting the curved arrow (on the far right), will take you back to the last tab you were on (either Vault or More).  The two arrows on the left side are forward and backward web navigation arrows.