1Password 8 Printing

@modakjay

Thank you for sharing your use case, I've added your vote to the feature request as well. 😊

I also require print feature. My reason, apart from those mentioned above, is that I would like to keep hard copy for family members who are not tech savvy.

@titanic1912

Thank you for the reply. While I can't promise anything, I've added your feedback to the feature request that we have open so that our developers are aware that you'd like to see printing added to 1Password 8.

Tangible409

1Password 8 is a complete rewrite of 1Password for Mac so it would be more accurate to say that we haven't yet added the ability to print rather than to say that we've disabled something. I've added your comments to the feature request as well. Thank you for the suggestion and for providing details about why you find the ability to print useful! 😊

I, too, need this feature. Removing it substitutes your judgement for that of your customers. I think it's a good idea for my lawyer to have a copy in his vault, as there's no way to say for sure that 1Password will be accessible to my executor and heirs after my death.

If you want to recommend against this practice, that's fine. But disabling it is nannyism.

Hello AG,

Thank you for your feedback. I would still like the ability to print my passwords like before. Do you realistically think that will be a possibility in the future?

Hi @titanic1912,

If you're worried about losing access to your data, I'd strongly recommend printing your Emergency Kit instead. It will have your email address and Secret Key already filled in, and there's space for you to write your account password.

Also, it has some advantages over a printed copy of all your passwords:

• If you change one password, you won't have to reprint a whole page to account for that change, or handwrite the change on the paper.
• You wouldn't be able to use any two-factor authentication codes from the paper copy.
• Using the Emergency Kit would give you back access to your actual live account, with your data still in place. Otherwise, you would have to start over with an empty account and manually enter all of your data again.
• If someone used your printed passwords without your knowledge, you would have no idea. If someone successfully stole your Emergency Kit and signed in, you'd receive an email alerting you to that, allowing you to change your account password to keep them out.

If you're worried about what would happen if 1Password.com disappeared, that's understandable. We securely store user data in multiple redundant locations to keep it safe. And even if for some reason 1Password.com wasn't reachable, your data would still be on your devices, just like if you went offline temporarily.

We offer a $1 million USD bounty to anyone who can successfully breach 1Password's security and no one has managed it yet! We're also regularly independently audited for our security: Security audits of 1Password.

While printing isn't available in 1Password 8, you can export your data from it to either 1PUX (1Password Unencrypted Export) or CSV format: How to export data from 1Password. You could then put that exported data somewhere safe if you want to, but we would typically advise against this in nearly all cases.

I hope that helps!

– Will

Hi Dave,

I understand that it removes the secure and encrypted environment but I always fear losing my data due to a data breach, etc. I put the printed copy of my passwords in a safe where no one can access them. I am a bit old school at times. Please bring back this feature.

Hello @titanic1912! 👋

1Password 8 doesn't currently support printing items and I've forwarded your request for this feature to our developers so that they can consider it for a future version. Out of curiosity, what was the reason for printing your passwords? In general, I don't recommend exporting or printing your passwords since that will remove them from the secure and encrypted environment of 1Password. Any exported or printed copy of your passwords will be in plain text and so will be readable by anyone who views it. And, if you change any of your passwords in the future the printed copy will become outdated.

I look forward to hearing from you. 😊

ref: dev/core/core#9570