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1P_Danny
1Password Team
1Password TeamNew: Add a location to any 1Password item and access what you need, exactly where you need it
👋 Hey everyone,
Whether you need to pull up local Wi-Fi credentials, medical records at your doctor's, or door codes at your workplace, the information you need is often tied to a physical location – and 1Password is making it easier to access it.
This feature, designed to give you easy access to your items wherever and whenever you need them, began as ahttps://blog.1password.com/beyond-boundaries-hackathon/ project. The positive response from attendees signalled this was the perfect experiment for https://blog.1password.com/labs-experimental-features/, a space in the 1Password apps that lets customers test new and experimental features.
Your feedback here in our community forums has been fantastic. It's helped us understand what's working for you and refine the feature to make today's release even better. Thank you for being part of the journey!
Now, you can now add specific locations to items stored in your vaults, and they’ll appear in the home tab of the 1Password mobile app when you’re near those locations. Read our https://blog.1password.com/add-locations-to-items/ to find out all the details!
I'd love to hear your thoughts – try out the new feature and let me know your feedback in the comments below 🙌
- Danny, Senior PM @ 1Password
13 Replies
I suggest you support What 3 Words at https://what3words.com. This lets you specify locations to an accuracy of a 3 meter square anywhere on the face of the earth with 3 words.
1P_DannyThis feature is brilliant. Thank you for this!
One suggestion: I note it is limited to adding a single location to any given entry. I have a few entries where it would be helpful to add multiple locations — such as medical ID info that I need to reference in a few different locations (not just a single doctor's office, for example). Please consider the ability to add multiple locations.
(Until this feature, I just flagged those entries as "favorites" to find them easily — though they aren't really my favorites. :) It would be neat for them to bubble up automatically and only when I need them, at those specific locations.)
Thanks to the team for launching this feature! A small correction regarding the German localization.
craskiThank you for taking the time to make us aware of these. I will discuss them with our localisation team to determine how best we can handle them.
- craski
I have done some investigation into these.
Our translations do correctly reflect the three areas you have highlighted "Should not be capitalized" but there was a piece of code forcing these to be capitalized which I can and will remove to resolve the issue.
I can also update "koordinate" to read "koordinaten". The lowercased K here is a design/content choice that keeps this label consistent with how other field labels are represented within 1Password (like those within item details for example)
Question on this: what is the location polling frequency and drain in terms of battery? If I open 1PW does the app simply call on the phone’s existing collected location data or is it actively asking at that time? If that makes sense. Just trying to ascertain any overall battery impacts. Thank you!
- craski
JV866112this is great question. I am one of the iOS developers here at 1Password and can tell you that we've been very careful to only request an updated location from the device only when a specific set of circumstances are met.
We do not continually poll the device for its location and instead only request an updated device location when the app unlocks and only if the Nearby tile is enabled on the home screen. We also check for an updated location if you navigate away from the home screen and come back into it but those requests are also only fired if the nearby tile is active and additionally those requests are also filtered on a time basis to avoid requesting location too often and reduce any impact on battery life.
In our own testing and throughout the period Nearby Items was available as a labs experiment, I am not aware of issues reported around an increase in battery usage but if you do notice any unexpected behaviour or impacts please do let us know.
If you need any more specifics around Android, we can ask an Android developer to get involved in the discussion.
Thank you for the explanation, I'll give it a go.
