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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 agoThank you for bringing back this feature! It's been driving me batty since the upgrade, and I found this thread when I finally remembered to look this up at home (because "while I'm already frustrated by having to go find some characters so I can unlock 1Password so I can do whatever it is I wanted to do, and maybe am in a hurry or holding up other people" isn't a good time to figure this out).
I created my master password before I had an iOS device, and I've been using it for...15 years now? (Has 1Password been around that long? I can't remember the first version I had.) My master password uses one or more characters that can't be typed on the iOS keyboard, and entering a password is the last time I'm going to trust a third-party keyboard. So any time I need to type my master password on my iphone or ipad, I need to have an internet connection and go find those characters somewhere so I can copy-n-paste them. Ever since Touch ID, it's been a non-issue: I do it once when I set up the phone, and then maybe a couple times a year, at most, for one reason or another. I figured the annoyance was a reasonable trade-off for the literal inability of a nefarious actor to type in the master password if they got my phone. It wasn't intentional, but I figured it wasn't worth changing my master password over.
So forgetting my master password isn't a worry; typing a long, complicated password on the iOS keyboard isn't a worry; but needing to re-enter my master password on the regular, no matter how much I successfully use Face ID is a problem, and being literally unable to unlock my 1password if I'm somewhere without an internet connection is a worry.