Forum Discussion
Add the Search Icon or add a shortcut.
Hello folks,
Thanks again for all of the feedback. I thought that I would provide an update in this thread. Based on all of the feedback received from users in the community, social media, support, and other places the team has added the ability to immediately focus the search bar by pulling down on the Home, Items, and Watchtower screens when using 1Password for iOS.
You can also immediately launch and focus search by long-pressing on the 1Password icon on your home screen and then tapping Search.
The team will continue to iterate and test other approaches for search in the future and we do appreciate all of the feedback, even if specific suggestions/requests in this thread aren't implemented at this time.
-Dave
I use an iPhone 15 Pro, so a typical screen size. Depending on what page you are on it is the same number of screen touches. e.g.
if already on the items screen than 1st touch is reachability, 2nd touch is the search bar or x to clear.
Anywhere else it is 3 screen touches.
All of the current workflows are significantly more error prone because they require precise presses/gestures it also creates an awkward workflow.
Where as before you could quickly double tab the search icon to achieve the same result and maintaining the same number of screen taps.
Can you help me understand why this functionality was removed? Were users having a poor experience because they were double tapping when they didn’t mean to? Was the functionality somehow confusing?
Could there not be another icon added? Was 4 icons really too many? Do users use watchtower more than search? Wouldn’t watchtower primarily used when a user signs up and goes through and changes all re-used or weak passwords? Than occasionally to see if a password was has been part of a data leak? Could both of those be part of the tutorials than optional notifications for data leaks? Or could watchtower be a tile on the Home Screen?
Could the 3rd icon be a customized option? Default is watchtower? And search icon is another that is a user preference? When double pressed it highlights the current text in the search bar or if empty places the cursor there.
I am all for streamlining an experience. I am also in disbelief that the previous experience with the search icon was so dysfunctional it had to be removed.
