Feature Request - Streamer Mode for Enhanced Privacy

Hello @seanboult! 👋

Thanks for interesting idea! I can definitely see how a special mode would be helpful, especially if you still want to access 1Password (or show it off) without revealing any of the information that you've saved there. I've passed along your feedback to the team.

For the time being, there are a few things that I would recommend:

1. Change your auto-lock settings to have 1Password lock more often. If 1Password is locked then no one can see your items: How to set 1Password to lock automatically
2. Lock 1Password manually before streaming your desktop by using Shift-Command-L (on Mac) or Ctrl + Shift + L (on Windows).
3. In the 1Password desktop app's settings make sure that the following options are turned off: "Always show passwords and full credit card numbers" and "Hold Option to toggle revealed fields".

You can also consider fully closing 1Password while streaming or using a different Mac/Windows account where you're not using 1Password.

Thank you again for the feedback and for helping us make 1Password even better. 🙂

-Dave

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@1P_Dave There is a somewhat new Windows API on Windows 11, may be also working on recent versions of Windows 10, that enables apps to hide themselves from being recorded/screen captured. These apps are not visible on screenshots (looks like magic!) and not visible if the screen is captured by streaming apps like OBS or with desktop sharing from collaboration tools like Teams.

May be a feature to implement for 1Password on Windows, however that will of course only work for the desktop app. The browser plugin is probably excluded from this, since it is running not by itself but within the window context of the browser.

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I've taken a look and it sounds like you're referring to the SetWindowDisplayAffinity function. That does indeed look like it would be useful, especially in regard to the original poster's suggestion. I've forwarded this information to the team internally as well.

Thank you for suggesting the function! 🙂

-Dave

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Hi, I just discovered that the 1Password 8 Electron app on Windows 10 doesn't have this feature yet, while KeePassXC on Windows and macOS has been doing this since 2022 (the 2.7.0 release that included the commit merged in 2021).

I'd really like for this to be a feature, as it's my opinion that human errors can occur when it comes to screen sharing or screenshots, and it would be beneficial that password managers help mitigate these human errors that could lead to compromise in security.

Here's the pull request for this feature in KeePassXC, which works on my Windows 10 21H2 machine as of the time of this post. https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/6030

Hope to see this feature soon, I personally find this a blocker to using the 1Password 8 Electron app on my Windows gaming rig where I frequently have OBS and Discord streams going when I'm gaming, and might occasionally need to login to game accounts or related where I don't want to accidentally reveal my other credentials or vault items.

@JJGadgets

Thank you for the feedback. I've shared your request with the team as well. 🙂

-Dave

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For what it's worth, I found out today that Discord, also an Electron app, can now hide itself from OBS and screenshot apps like ShareX when the Discord Streamer Mode is enabled, at least on Windows.

Disappointing to take a screenshot and see both KeePassXC and Discord disappear from the screen but not 1Password.

@JJGadgets

Thank you for the additional information, I've passed it along to the team. 🙂

-Dave

Funny I saw @ChrisC1P share a screenshot in another thread. Obviously it was all manually blurred but this feature in an age where we are always sharing screens in slack/teams/zoom/discord this is a much needed feature to keep your info safe from accidental leakage.

@seanboult

Thank you, your feature request has been shared with the team. 🙂

-Dave

I'd just like to emphasize that two different feature requests are proposed in this thread. They both loosely fit under "streamer mode", but each one has very different use cases:

1. Option to signal 1Password window should be blacked out for screenshot/screen sharing/presentation, etc. applications
2. Conceal* the contents of all 1Password fields by default. The 1Password window including its categories, settings, etc. should not be blacked out.

'*' A counterpart of sorts already exists in the Settings > Security > Concealed Fields > Always show passwords and full credit card numbers. The 2nd feature request could become an additional option in this Concealed Fields section.