Not directly; it’s typically done via different phone user accounts or logins instead.
Like you wouldn’t open Chrome on your phone and choose which profile to use, the way you would on the desktop.
Instead, you’d have separate phone accounts, one for you and one for wifey, each of which would have its own separate set of apps and logins. When you log in as you, you get your own Chrome, your own text messages and emails, etc.. Wifey gets her own all set of everything, too.
On some versions of Android, you could also choose to have a small “alcove” of segregated apps inside a “work profile” or a “secure storage” or similar, which would do roughly the same thing in a more limited capacity. But those are not really relevant here… for the OP’s use case, just having regular separate phone accounts would make more sense.
But most people have their own phones anyway, so sharing isn’t as big a concern as on the living room laptop.
Okay, well, I took your suggestion and disabled Lastpass for now and migrated to Bitwarden. It’s going to take a bit to learn the new system, so I’m going to wait for a bit before I rip Lastpass out and close that account. I’ve turned off Chrome password manager (never trusted that anyway).
And, I’m going to also take your advice and not worry about passkeys for the time being. From additional reading I’m getting the impression that my wife and I will both be dead and gone before it become ubiquitous.
One thing to remember (and I don’t think that this is that helpful for your current needs) is that you can use your own face as a FaceID on her phone. When I set up my mom’s iPhone I managed to get her face on there, and mine too. Makes it easier for me when I need to troubleshoot her phone, or use it to get her stuff done.
In that setup, then, it would probably make sense for you to have two separate Chrome profiles (or two separate browsers, if you prefer).
Lucy’s profile can have the Bitwarden Chrome extension and be logged into Lucy’s main Bitwarden account.
Wife’s Chrome profile will be totally separate. She can also have the Bitwarden extension (you just install it again, as though this were another computer). She’d log into her own Bitwarden sub-account, which would be tied to your main account but have her own collection with just her stuff.
This feature is called a Bitwarden organization (even though it’s a 2 person org with just you two):
Each profile has its own separate saved pages and logins, so when you switch between them, they stay associated to the right person. You’re not constantly logging in and out of individual websites anymore, just switching entire Chrome profiles with a click.
Her passwords are saved in her own Bitwarden collection and she can’t accidentally log in as yours, since yours are in a different collection that her account can’t access.
You, as the Bitwarden main account owner, can view and manage both collections, yours and hers. You can also help her reset her master Bitwarden password if she ever has issues. You essentially act as her “IT department” in this case and have oversight of all her logins, if she ever needs help.
But how do you transfer/replace a couple hundred traditional passwords duplicated on multiple devices and browsers to a new system like bitwarden with complicated passwords? It looks slow and painful.
There’s usually a password export and import system. You would export them from each system and then import them into Bitwarden in batches.
Improving your current passwords to more complex random ones is something you do later, usually one at a time, as time allows. Probably you start with the really important ones, the banks and gov sites and email and e-commerce ones. The rest you just kinda tackle as you remember, or never if you don’t. Oh well.
Browser password files is how they are stored. Firefox is my primary browser and I believe Firefox sync ensures my desktop and laptop contain the same passwords. I also sometimes use Microsoft Edge and Brave. At one time I imported the Firefox password files into those browsers and I sporadically add a new password to one or the other browser [Firefox seems broken for a few sites I use]
Not sure about Brave. Might need some manual massaging of the export into a CSV.
When you import them all into Bitwarden you’ll probably end up with duplicates. Just delete the ones you don’t need.
And yeah, Firefox will often have problems. The web world has largely moved to Chrome and its cousins (which is basically every other browser except Firefox). Brave and Edge are just reskinned Chrome. That’s a whole other thread though…