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shigeomix
New Contributor
3 months ago

Bring Back the Standalone Password Generator in Android – Not Just Hidden in Login Creation

Hello 1Password team and fellow users, I'd like to revisit a long-standing feature request that I’ve found repeated in several older threads — but never fully addressed: the ability to use the pas...
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1P_Dave
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17 days ago

Hello shigeomix​ and Crazy4Happy​! 👋

Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate you taking the time to let us know how we can make 1Password work better for your use cases. I'd like to learn more about why the current workflow wouldn't work for your examples: 

  • Email-first → verify → redirected to create password
  • SMS-based onboarding → password setup comes much later
  • Multi-step captchas, in-app flows, or jumping between tabs or apps

In all of these examples, wouldn't creating a new Login item using 1Password for Android still be the easiest way to generate a password even if there was a standalone password generator in the app? Currently:

  1. Open 1Password for Android.
  2. Create a new Login item. 
  3. Generate a new password and save the item.
  4. Copy the password to your clipboard to paste into the website in question.


With a standalone password generator: 

  1. Open 1Password for Android.
  2. Access the standalone password generator. 
  3. Generate a new password.
  4. Copy the password to your clipboard to paste into the website in question.
  5. Go back to 1Password and create a new Login item.
  6. Paste the password that you created using the standalone password generator into the Login item. Then save the item.


Let me know if I misunderstood the workflow that you're using. 

-Dave

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AJCxZ0
Bronze Expert
14 days ago

A fair an accurate assessment of the effort involved in the case of creating a Login which we intend to use to access an account managed by 1Password.

In all the other cases in which we just need a password which satisfies all the requirements, given that we have the 1Password app installed and your password generator is still not a PWA, the workflow would be

  1. Open 1Password for Android, and
  2. tap the "Generate Password" button.

 

This would generate the password, put it in the cut buffer (whatever that may correctly be called on Android), making it available to paste wherever it's needed.
Bear in mind that while we're calling this a password, it's really just a string of characters which may be used for a variety of purposes.

Chargen services are rare these days.

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    1P_Dave
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    12 days ago

    Thank you for the feedback! I've shared it with our product team internally. 🙂

    -Dave

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