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August 10, 2022
Question

Making "Reveal" the default for taps in 1Password 8 for iOS

  • August 10, 2022
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In the new 1Password 8 app for iOS, tapping a password/secret field defaults to copying it to the clipboard. There doesn't seem to be a way to make tap reveal the field, the way it worked in version 7. Instead, you have to long press, review a menu of several choices, and then tap the second option in the list. I don't understand why it works this way.

If I'm opening the 1Password app, it's almost always because I want to reveal the password so that I can type it into another device -- like my work computer. Or maybe I want to see a credit card number so I can read it aloud to someone. "Copy" is only useful if I'm entering that password into a field on the same device I'm holding in my hand. But that's what AutoFill is for. If I'm entering a password into Safari or a different app, there's rarely a need to open the 1Password app because of AutoFill. So 1Password 8 makes the rare use case the default for a tap, and it adds extra steps to the more frequent use case.

Please add the ability to make a tap default to Reveal instead of Copy. This applies to both the login detail pages as well as the new pinned fields. I realize pinned fields let you set the default to Large Type, but that's not really a good substitute for Reveal.


1Password Version: 8.9.0
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OS Version: iOS
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19 replies

August 10, 2022

+1 I asked for this aswell :)

August 10, 2022

I also do not care for the way reveal works in 1Password 8.

August 10, 2022

My thoughts exactly!

August 10, 2022

“ Please add the ability to make a tap default to Reveal instead of Copy.”

I concur.

AMonitorDarkly
August 10, 2022

Count me in as well

ag_andrew
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
August 10, 2022

Hi folks 👋 Thanks for the feedback.

I'm a little bit confused about the use of tap to reveal in 1Password 7. On my device, tapping a concealed field in 1Password 7 shows a menu like so:

How are you getting the behaviour where you can tap to reveal the password?

As for pinned fields, this was an intentional choice. Pinned fields have a maximum width and often passwords are longer than that maximum width. In order to avoid truncating the password (which would make it impossible to read in full) we decided that Large Type (which scrolls, is easer to read, and has each character numbered) would be a good way to view passwords from pinned fields.

Please let me know about the tap-to-reveal in 1Password 7 for iOS so I can look into that further 👍

August 11, 2022

@ag_andrew, you’re right that it may have been two taps to reveal in 1Password 7 (one to show the menu and another to select Reveal). Though oddly, when I just checked version 7, it looks like Reveal was recently changed to a long press menu there too. But either way, the underlying request would be the same: for version 8, it would be very helpful if we could set tap to reveal a field instead of copying. Long press and then tap feels slow. Thanks for responding so quickly!

August 14, 2022

Adding support for option to tap to reveal in v8. I frequently use 1Password by revealing in on my iPhone and then typing into another devise. Or screensharing a revealed password to family or a friend. Is there ANY way to do this in version 8 other than clicking “edit” and then tapping the password field?

ag_andrew
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
August 16, 2022

@kdiffily Certainly, today you can long-press on the concealed field when viewing your item and select Reveal from the menu that pops up.

August 27, 2022

I also want to have an option to do a single tap to reveal on iOS. In 1Password7, it was tap to get menu, then hit reveal. That was preferable to the long tap (and gave you quick access to Large Text). Most preferred is single tap to reveal. Right now I have tap, curse because I forgot you can't just tap, then long tap, then select reveal. I don't install 1Password on my work computer, so I need to see passwords from my phone a lot.