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khaaan
4 years agoOccasional Contributor
Easier way to Reveal Password
Currently in 1Password 8, the behavior when tapping a password field is to copy that field to the clipboard, but more often than not I need a quick way of seeing the value of that password. I know I can tap and hold to “Reveal Password”, but I would love a faster way to do this. A couple of ideas are:
1) Provide a setting that controls the default behavior (either “tap to copy”/“tap and hold to reveal”, or vice-versa)
2) Provide a “Reveal” tap target next to every password field (like the eye icon when typing in your master passcode on the lock screen)
The first option actually feels more natural to me, as I could always copy using the normal iOS copy/paste gestures once revealed.
Thanks!
21 Replies
- 1P_Tommy
Moderator
You're most welcome. Please let us know if you have any other questions.
- Former Member
1P_Tommy Thank you so much! I found the spot to make this the default setting. Sooo much better. Thank you again!
- 1P_Tommy
Moderator
@GSB914
If you wish to always display your password that is possible.
Settings > Advanced > Security - Always show passwords and full credit card numbers.
- Former Member
I'm going to add my 2 cents here: I constantly need to be able to SEE the password and having to touch it to get it revealed is super annoying and time wasting. If I open the app to get a password, and navigate to that item in the app, I want to see the pw I am seeking as quickly as possible without having to do any extra steps. No one is looking over my shoulder trying to see my passwords, so show it to me with as few keystrokes as possible please. I'd like a default where if I navigate to a login record, the pw is defaulted to be visible. Thanks for intaking my opinion on this.
- khaaanOccasional Contributor
Hi - I'm not sure when this happened, but I just noticed in the iOS beta earlier this week that there's a new triple-dot menu that contains an option to "Reveal" any concealed fields. This is just what I was looking for - thank you!
- Former Member
I also have the use case of using 1Password 8 on my phone to access passwords that I then type in on a variety of other devices: work laptop, spouse's laptop, some annoying app/site on my iPad that autofill won't work on and it's easier to to reference it from my phone than try and switch between apps on the iPad.
I would love to have this be a user configurable option: tap action = [ copy to clipboard | reveal | reveal large text ].
Long press drives me crazy because I don't remember it and it takes extra steps to get what I need.
- Former Member
Yep. Leave it is as user own choice as a possibility to customize behaviour. Do not anticipate what most of your users usually do. I suppose it is not a rocket science to make it personally customized.
- Former Member
+1! in addition to being able to more easily see sensitive fields (such as PINs), i’ve already lost whatever was in my clipboard multiple times by accidentally copying
- EggsAndAvoDedicated Contributor
I think it would best to show you all options when you tap, someone in my family who is an average tech user asked me how to see a password as there is no hint at how to do it.
- dszpOccasional Contributor
I already noticed this change as I got 1Password 8 for iOS finally today (and in the TestFlight now, after checking every day for two months for a slot, ha). I'm happy enough with most changes so far, but a single tap to reveal a (non-large, ideally--that's hard to read!) password is definitely necessary. I use this on my Mac regularly and also my phone. For example, I'm occasionally working with computers (I'm an IT consultant) that are new and I need to enter administrative credentials visually from my phone into the computer.
Or, I occasionally hand check deposits at my front desk with the check scanner when my front desk person is out of the office on vacation. I log into the computer with a Yubikey and AzureAD, but my bank requires a company number/username/password and then a PIN and 6-digit code from their own hardware ID. I don't want to install 1Password on that computer as I don't use it otherwise, so I'm fine typing the bank password in, but need to do so visually from my phone screen.
I'm usually in a hurry, and want to just tap to reveal--it's long, and shows up much better in the text box than with the Large Type field, as well. I don't use it often, so I don't want to pin it, but I do have it in my Favorites--it's already been annoying to have to open the item to view the password (the Favorites list in 1Password 7 and then reveal the password (the drop down means not waiting for tap-and-hold) and type it. Tap-and-hold is too long, it should be reserved for much more infrequent things now that Apple killed Force Touch where I could just hard-tap faster to access what is now tap-and-hold (now that Force Touch is sadly entirely dead--so nice to force touch the keyboard to position the text caret, now a long-touch wait on the space bar is required to do the same :-( )
Anyway, I fully agree that easier Reveal access (pinned or in-item, ideally) without Large Type, should be faster than touch and hold requires!