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I'm on Chrome 110 on Android 10, and I'm seeing the key symbol indicating I'm in a password field when I'm on an edit summary field:

key symbol on an edit summary field on a post on Sci-Fi Stack Exchange

key symbol on an edit summary field on a post on Stack Overflow

That seems wrong.

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Mobile Chrome does this for all inputs regardless of whether or not they are password inputs. For example:

Google image search showing key and credit card

Mine also shows a credit card icon, though there is no case when I would need to use both a password and a saved credit card in the same field. I assume the reason these buttons is exist are for poorly programmed websites which don't automatically prompt for the relevant autofill.

You know it's not interpreting it as a password because you see plain text instead of "•••"

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  • Ahh ok, not sure why I hadn't noticed it before - I doesn't do it for textareas otherwise you'd see it elsewhere as well....! Commented Feb 23, 2023 at 16:41
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    I do actually see it in textareas (such as this very answer!). However, I'm using iOS Chrome so there may be some differences. Commented Feb 23, 2023 at 16:44

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