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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 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.