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heyphi
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4 years ago

Holding down option (⌥) / alt to reveal passwords

Hello! In 1Password 7 for Mac (and earlier versions I believe), there was the option (haha) to hold down the option key (⌥) to reveal passwords and secrets briefly. I understand that in the cur...
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roustem
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4 years ago

heyphi Thank you for the feedback! I mentioned this somewhere else, I love the hold-Option-to-Reveal-password but it is very problematic.

For example, a lot of screen sharing is done these days and it is possible to accidentally reveal the secrets while you might be trying to use a different shortcut, like ⌥⇧C, etc. Someone in the forum even mentioned that it happed to them recently.

We are thinking about adding a different shortcut, something like ⌘R to toggle the hidden fields.