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notnotjake
4 years agoFrequent Contributor
Feature Idea - Intercept Email Codes / Magic Links
iOS/macOS does an awesome job of grabbing SMS 2FA codes, but more and more sites I use are doing email 2FA/passwordless logins. This is normally either done by giving a 6-digit code and/or providing ...
1P_Dave
Moderator
3 years agoHello notnotjake and @cristianduguet! 👋
Thank you for the suggestion! The difficulty here is that 1Password would have to be given continual access to your email inbox which is something that we don't want access to. Any password manager that implemented such a feature would then have to continually scan and read all of your emails 24/7 in order to look for, and identify, 2FA codes and magic links.
I would recommend reaching out to the services that do use magic links or 2FA-over-email to request that they offer other options such as TOTP two-factor authentication. You can also see if they support signing in using something like "Sign in with Apple" which 1Password can then save and suggest: Use 1Password to sign in to sites with supported providers
-Dave