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Former Member
5 years agoPassword Settings are Gone
When generating a new password I really miss being able to determine how many numbers and symbols are being used in the randomly generated password. Both Numbers and Symbols had their own slider alon...
Jack_P_1P
1Password Team
5 years agoHey @Pestilence76:
Thanks for asking! We want security to be as easy and as convenient as possible, and it was hard to evaluate how changing each value affected the strength of the generated password. Since we want security to be easy and convenient, we don't want features that take away or de-emphasize from the most important things to make a strong password: length and randomness. We simplified the choices here, so passwords can now be more random (because there's no longer a guaranteed number of digits and/or symbols), and the most important thing that needs to be adjusted (length) is on top & and users can easily see how changing the length affects the strength of their password. You can still add symbols or digits, but how many are added is now randomly determined.
I hope this helps clarify why we made this change!
Jack