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August 12, 2021
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Lack of customizable shortcuts

  • August 12, 2021
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I can't believe there isn't more ruckus about this on the forums, but the lack of customizable keyboard shortcuts makes v8 a complete non-starter for me. Probably six years ago I picked Cmd+period to be my autofill shortcut, and Cmd+Shift+period to be my "show helper" shortcut. If 1P8 doesn't offer me the ability to customize those shortcuts (as literally every other password manager does, even the really shitty ones), there's absolutely no way I can use it. That muscle memory is so deeply ingrained; it would take a herculean (and completely pointless!) effort to overwrite.


1Password Version: 8 early access
Extension Version: N/A
OS Version: macOS 12.0 Beta (21A5294g)

28 replies

August 12, 2021

@ag_andrew glad to hear the standard shortcut should be returning. As a 1Password user for over 10 years (and a current subscriber now) I’m not optimistic but I hope the Electron resources (memory/battery usage) can be cut down as a max of 16GB of memory in most Macs means we don’t want a huge memory footprint for an app that is always running but only periodically used. My account renews later this month and I don’t have time to migrate everything somewhere else now so I’ll give it 9 months to see. If it’s as bad as I expect, I’ll look for other options next May when I have more time. I hope those making the decisions hear the concerns many have about Electron (memory, CPU usage, potential security) and you can show that it’s on par with version 7 or the company will be losing a lot of customers.

August 12, 2021

yes, definitely missing cmd-\ and the sudden arrival of cmd-shift-space is messing with things as well.

August 12, 2021

Is the mini helper just gone in v8? I'm glad to hear that keyboard shortcut autofill will return, but @ag_andrew you didn't mention anything about keyboard-shortcut-to-show-mini-helper :(

August 13, 2021

I agree entirely with this thread, I am very much missing Command + \

I absolutely hate the inline filler as it often does not work on websites I use, so having that keyboard shortcut is a m

ag_andrew
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
August 13, 2021

@mpcsh 1Password mini has been re-imagined as 1Password Quick Access. It's very early in the development cycle for this feature but we're excited for 1Password 8 adventurers to try it out. You can open it up with ⌘-Shift-Space (we'll be building customizable shortcuts for it soon) or by clicking the Menu Bar icon and clicking Open Quick Access.

Give it a try and let us know what you think. Keep in mind that it's only about a week old at this point; there's lots left to add to it 😅

GadgetComa
August 13, 2021

I don't generally use 1Password's keyboard shortcuts, but the lack of customization hits me in another way. I use Cmd-Shift-Space for Hook and built Keyboard Maestro automation around it. Now, 1Password gets in the way. Looking forward to being able to customize.

August 13, 2021

Huge +1 to this, but for another reason – I already use the shortcuts that 1P8 uses for other things so it's conflicting with other software on my system.

I'm enjoying the update overall but this is quite a regression for me.

August 13, 2021

@ag_andrew What about using Option key to temporarily reveal hidden passwords? I was using it all the time. My passwords are hidden by default, so I do not expose them by accident to someone around me, but quite often I need to quickly peak into something like PIN code, or a password. In 1P8 it's a lot of clicking to reveal a password ...

August 13, 2021

I'm also here to bemoan the lack of ⌘+\ for quick fill and ⌥ to reveal a password.

1P_PeterG
1Password Alum
August 13, 2021

Thanks for sharing your feedback here, folks. It really is helpful to us to understand your specific use case, and in what ways and for what purposes keyboard shortcuts are important to you. This is something we're looking at closely!