1Password 8: account password required every 2 weeks?

Hey folks,

We're doing some brainstorming on the idea of having the last unlock time sync across devices, such that the account password would need to be typed every 2 weeks, but any device you enter it on would extend that timer. It's an interesting idea, in my mind. It helps mitigate the issue of people forgetting their account passwords because they aren't typing them, but also mitigates some of the pain of entering such passwords on mobile.

I'd like to get an idea of how many of you this would (or would not) help.

Ben

Hi all,

Thanks for posting additional feedback and sharing your thoughts on this. While I'm fairly certain there are no plans to just allow Never on all devices, several of you have brought up the interesting point that you do manually type your password on other devices, so the reason for taking away Never isn't there for many of you. It is something we can explore, but such a feature requires a lot more planning and consideration. It makes this feature quite a bit larger and coordination between your devices must take place. I can't promise anything at this time, but it will be discussed.

Cheers,
Kevin

ref: IDEA-I-1144

I type my master password in daily on my Win 11 PC, because I don't have Windows Hello.
Same here with me!

It would be great, if logging into the Windows app (or maybe the Mac app) is resetting the count for the 2 weeks on every device, so that I don't have to enter the master password on all other devices again and again. 😘

+1 from me. If the dev team afraid user will forget their password, let make the password requiring be a default for an optional choice.

+1 to requiring password after reboot vs forcing it every 2 weeks. It does tend to happen at the most awkward times and takes up so much extra time. Like many others are saying, I type my master password in daily on my Win 11 PC, because I don't have Windows Hello. I also type it on my mac. I'm not going to forget my master password and want the choice of how often I'm required to enter on iPhone and iPad.

Asking also. It would seem that several configurable options that were in 1Password7 are now removed in 1Password. The comment from @ag_kevin " I'll pass this along for discussion and see if we can change this in the future." seems a bit lacking on confidence to us long time users. Of course 1Password "can" change this feature, you just appear to not be willing to change it, despite many long time users asking. This feature appears to be one of many features lost from 1Password for the sake of 1Password been able to run on more platforms, not necessarily for the sake of the users.

Entering the password on mobile devices is a pain.

Tonight I hit something which I suspect is related: I had to not only login to my 1Password master account on all my devices, I had to login to each team account as well. This is not a good scenario, and I know people on my team that will simply create short easy to remember passwords to reduce the hassle this new hurdle creates.

@MichalZ nails it: "If you force us to re-enter the password every 2 weeks, users will have 2 options: either use a short, weak master password in order to be able to quickly type it and be productive, or switch to another password manager."

Why is the developer team trying so hard to turn us long time users away?

Hello @ag_kevin and other 1Password team members,

I've registered an account just to ask you to reconsider this decision.

I think I won't add any new arguments to this discussion. I just want to say that it wasn't easy to convince my mother who is not a tech savvy person to start using a password manager. I had to explain why it's important and teach her how to use it on her devices. She and other members of my family, including me, are very happy with 1Password in general. The only complaint we have is regarding re-entering the master password. The "never ask" option on mobile devices is a huge benefit. I made sure we all have very strong master passwords and that we have them safely backed up. Please don't remove this option from mobile and add it on all other supported platforms such as MacOS.
If you force us to re-enter the password every 2 weeks, users will have 2 options: either use a short, weak master password in order to be able to quickly type it and be productive, or switch to another password manager. In my specific case, I'll probably give up and migrate us all to some other password manager which makes me sad because I really like 1Password.

I have an idea for you - make this option hidden, so that only advanced/pro users will be able to find/unlock it. Android OS enables developer options when you go to settings and tap 7 times on "Build number". You can do a similar trick and hide that option by default. Again - please don't remove this option, and add it on all other supported platforms.

Had to enter my account password today on my iPad when I quickly needed a password for a service.

Very frustrating!

I’m so disappointed that you let everyone suffer because some people forget their password…

I'd personally like to be able to reduce this limit; for example, to 1 week, or on device restart (like 1Password 7 allowed). Could this be considered for addition into 1Password 8? (I'm specifically talking about how the iOS app worked -- I'm not familiar with 1Password 7 on the desktop.)

@tomatoshadow2 the beauty of my password is that even under torture, I couldn’t give you my password, 😛, just a fun fact. And also, I only need to remember part of my password, 😀.