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Oddycm
4 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...
Former Member
4 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?