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Feedback on 1Password v8
Jumped at the chance to join the early release for 1Password v8. It's not been as smooth as I hoped it would be. Reading some of the feedback here makes me understand that others might be feeling the same way. Want to share some specific thoughts:
1) The overall look of the app isn't right. There's too much space and padding between all the items. This means more scrolling to get to items that fall "below the fold". Might be nice to tighten some of the spacing up so we can see more items at one glance.
2) Searching in the new app is strange - why doesn't the list filter when I search?? That was an AMAZING feature of v7 and earlier. For example, I have two VA529 accounts for my daughters. I could type "529" into the search bar and BOTH accounts would show up and I could just click on one of them to grab my 2FA to sign in. Easy peasy! In v8, when I type "529" the list doesn't filter and nothing shows up in the autofill drop-down area. When I first did this, I thought that the entries had been deleted!!! If I hit "CMD-enter" to search (WHY do I have to do a key press to search when I'm in the search bar??), I get zero results. It's only when I type out "Virginia529" that the two accounts show up. v7 would search "within" words but it appears that v8 is doing "exact match!!" That's painful. I have to remember exactly how my entry is entered in order to find it!‽ Is it EZPassMA, E-Z Pass MA, or EZ Pass MA??? The search feature is very much still in beta and needs a lot of work! (Oddly enough, 1Password for Safari search bar works correctly and can find the accounts...that lets me know the working code is in there somewhere!)
3) 1Password for Safari/1Password Mini is not great either. If I'm not logged in when I click the 1Password icon on my Safari window, 1Password for Safari pops up but then I have to CLICK AGAIN to log in to 1Password. This opens up the full app which then unlocks the Safari Extension. That's an extra mouse move and click when I used to be able to click once and then type in my password. Seems like this workflow could be streamlined.
I really appreciate everything you guys are doing with updating the app and trying to keep it looking fresh. There are some useful features from the previous version that were extremely helpful and I miss them.
Won't be canceling my subscription...may downgrade to v7 but will likely just lazily stick with v8 and hope that some of these changes get made. This is early access after all!
Thanks for listening!
Jacob
1Password Version: 8.4.0
Extension Version: 2.1.3
OS Version: 11.6
39 Replies
Thanks fuchsr! I laughed out loud when I saw the edit menu has "search" and "find" right next to each other. I would never have thought that "search" and "find" were different things; I've always seen them/thought of them as 100% synonymous.
In any case since "find" seems to do exactly what I want it to do (it searches just the way 1Password 7 did -- auto filtering the list, and letting me search on partial strings in any field), I just re-mapped the keyboard shortcuts so Command-F brings me to "find" instead of "search". Hopefully this thread gets updated when "search" is upgraded to "find"'s functionality and I'll remap back :)
I just accidentally discovered this thread: https://1password.community/discussion/129931/this-one-flaw-makes-me-want-to-set-1password-8-on-fire-search-results-more-work-for-me-and-you, in which ⌥⌘F is mentioned. I tried it, and in fact it does EXACTLY the substring search we're asking for! So there's clearly no technical reason for not doing this from the search bar on top.
+1 for enabling substring searches. I'm super happy with v8 but not being able to search for substrings is just bad.
1P_Rob1Password Team
I've been away for a bit, but had to jump back in and say your reply once again put a smile on my face, volts, thank you. 😄 I appreciate your ability to provide such clear direction and scope assessment.
In seriousness, we have looked into this some more recently, and we'll get there.
1P_PeterGCommunity Manager
Hey @xperseguers, that's great! We always appreciate a good bug-fix. 🙌 Thanks for letting us know, and glad to hear that this has been an improvement to that aspect of your experience.
It's still early in the testing period of 1Password 8 for iOS, but I'm personally pretty excited about it. The feedback has been great so far, too.
Edit: just could reproduce the search/filtering bug in a native app. It turned out it must have used v7 because a new beta of v8 had been installed automatically and my account there was locked… After unlocking v8, search/filtering in native app worked again.
So it’s a long-lasting v7 bug which is finally fixed with v8 beta!
I answered the team on Twitter yesterday but forgot it here. Actually while trying to record a short video to demo the problem, I couldn’t reproduce anymore in two of my apps.
The problem still appeared 2-3 days ago but in the mean time a new v8 beta has been released and installed.
Since I have both v7 and v8 beta on my iPhone I really don’t know which is invoked when filling passwords in a native app, so I may only suppose this is the v8 beta and bug got fixed with last release. Cool!
The instant filtering while typing in macOS version would still be a huge gain UX-wise if it could come back.
- 1P_PeterG
Thank you for the feedback, OAW!
@xperseguers - I haven't personally encountered this issue, but I'd be happy to connect you with our specialist iOS team, if you haven't been in contact already.
I should note as well that the current iOS app (1Password 7 for iOS) is a different generation app, and essentially completely different from a code perspective, than 1Password 8. But in any case, we certainly want to make your workflow on this device as fluid as possible, so do let me know if you'd like us to dig into this issue over email. We're here for you! 😃
