Disable Password Reauthentication After 2 Weeks in 1Password 8

I'm happy that you're both enjoying the feature. 🙂

Since this is a rather old thread I'm going to close it to save folks from receiving notifications when anyone replies.

-Dave

Hey 1Password Community Team and Devs - thank you for bringing this feature back.
The other idea that seemed doable was syncing the timestamp of last login w/Master Password across all platforms.
Cheers!

Thank 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.

I want to thank everyone for taking the time to write in with their feedback. As of version 8.9.3 of 1Password for iOS (released August 30th 2022) you can now choose how often you're prompted for your account password.

If you haven't already you can update using this guide: How to keep 1Password up to date

@sjdennis

When 1Password 8 for iOS first launched the app required users to enter their account password every two weeks even if Touch ID / Face ID was enabled. With the latest update to 1Password 8 users can now choose how often they're asked for their account password:

• Never
• Every 2 weeks
• Every 30 days

I hope that helps! 😊

Is this New requirement to re-enter your password every two weeks, or change your password every two weeks? I haven’t upgraded to 1Password 8 yet pending clarification on this issue. If one has to change their password every two weeks that would be F’ing ridiculous.

Looks like the recent update has brought back the “Never” option in 1Password 8!

Just wanted to post a big thank you to the 1Password team for listening to the user feedbacks 🙂

There is always the option of upgrading back to 1Password 7. Between no Watch App, the terrible search experience, the less readable account screen, and this, I am thinking of doing it.

On my desktop I enter the MP several times a day, at least. The (user specific, bad) reason of 'forgetting' really needs the syncing idea implemented so you know (if you care) that we do indeed 'know' the MP. On the phone is the worst place to ever enter the MP, and was when back in the day I hated 1P totally (before larger phones, keyboards, touch-ID, etc.).

Not going to start on least common denominator user support, etc.

This is really annoying every 2 weeks, my iOS already running Face ID or pin.

My password is like 40 characters long, and I had to re-enter this every 2 weeks on my tiny iPhone 12 mini keyboard. It's painful and stupid - if I need to access my stuff in 1Password at store area. "Sorry give me 5 mins to unlock my account".

Here goes, I'm going to set my master password down to 8 characters.

Oh man, I am in such hot water with the wife. Just "upgraded" her phone to v8 and noticed that it has to sign in every 2 weeks. She has always just used biometric. The whole point is to have a strong complicated password to protect the account. She is not going to be doing that every 2 weeks, especially if she is out away from home where the main password is stored. You kidding me? If this doesn't get straightened out by the time our renewal comes up we will be done. Man I really don't want to have to move everything over to another service. Uggg 🙄 So frustrating!