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Oddycm
3 years agoOccasional Contributor
Disable Password Reauthentication After 2 Weeks in 1Password 8
Hello,
On 1Password 7 I remember there being an option to disable reauthentication permanently, this allowed me to use Face ID to authenticate for many months and ensure that I’m not prompted to t...
Anonymous
3 years agoI've also just upgraded to v8 on iOS and was surprised to see the 2 week expiry added with no option to disable this to match the old v7 behaviour.
To echo what @steven1 said, I really don't appreciate being babied and told that I can't be trusted to remember my master password without being prompted for it every 2 weeks. I also think other posters make a very good point that for those users that might forget their master password, this will just lead to them weakening them ala iOS 4 digit numeric lock codes.
To give a real world example where this is intensely frustrating - I have a bunch of cards with individual PINs. When I withdraw cash at an ATM, I really don't want to be surprised by having to enter my (long/strong) master password while people wait behind me. Being locked out like this totally breaks the "just quickly open and get the password for something"-utility that I expect of a mobile password manager.
Solving this really seems as simple as adding an reauth-timeout option (including "never"). I don't really understand the objection to doing this?