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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 current preferences, there is a toggle to always have passwords/secrets visible. I also know I can click the small chevron on the side of the password or secret to reveal an item. But this is a regression, IMHO. Holding option is much faster than having to click an item in a sub-menu.

I hope this is something you can consider reimplementing (and I would be happy to see it on my PC as well!)

1Password Version: 8.2.0-44.BETA
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: macOS 11.3.1

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  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member
    4 years ago

    In discussion here - seems it's on the backlog https://1password.community/discussion/122757/holding-down-option-to-reveal-passwords#latest

  • cortig's avatar
    cortig
    Super Contributor
    4 years ago

    In 1Password 7, Could select an item in 1Password and press the option key to reveal the password.
    This doesn’t seem to work at all in 1Password 8. I really liked that feature… I hope wasn’t killed :-\

    Corentin

    1Password Version: 1Password for Mac 8.2.2-27.NIGHTLY
    Extension Version: 2.0.3
    OS Version: macOS 11

  • roustem's avatar
    roustem
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    4 years ago

    I asked the dev team to bump the priority on this issue.

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    roustem
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    4 years ago

    Thank you so much, heyphi ! We had a lot of requests about improving the keyboard shortcuts and hope to have it done soon ❤️

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    heyphi
    New Contributor
    4 years ago

    roustem Understandable, that's a fair point. Thank you for the quick response.

    An alternative shortcut like ⌘R would be great; count this post as a +1 vote! Hope you can consider this soon. :)

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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.