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hmgnsd
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5 years ago

Preferences toggle for Case Sensitive / Spotlight Search

Why is the only search option in both 1Password 8 and Quick Access case sensitive when both 1Password 7, 1Password Mini and the iOS/iPadOS apps are not? Will case sensitivity be turned off eventually...
betas
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Former Member
5 years ago

1P_Mitch happy to elaborate.

In general, unsurprisingly I guess, looking for a password.

But I do have 2 use cases I would treat separately.

Password to your standard webpage / app / pdf document - probably the most generic 1Password use case.

1P8 here fails due to lack of context-awareness and weird list limitations (up to 8 items I think?).
1P7 suggests just the right passwords (showing all of those that match the context in the mini).

This is most visible when looking for a PDF password (1P7 showed all the Preview-app passwords, allowing me to find the one I need for that particular document - it's fine, I've got at most 20 of those).

Another very frustrating example is MetaMask or any other Crypto wallet - 1P7 would just show the right list of passwords (also multiple wallets per one app).

Same goes for digital signature apps PINs etc.

Looking for a password I use once per year or so.

Example - I have > 20 AWS accounts, which I access eg. annually to perform eg. an audit. Because it happens rarely - I will not remember the exact title, but I do remember a part of the email, or part of some field.

So I put that into the search, and expect to get results - 1P8 lost full text search, so I usually get 0 results. With 1P7 I had 90% accuracy.

For those 10% of cases - I'd just put "AWS" in, and quickly, using arrow keys, scan through the list to find the right one by either the title or one of the fields. Or just continue typing "AWS bel" to get any AWS-related item that has "bel" in any of the fields. That was excellent.

With 1P8 Quick Search the list is item limited, and doesn't show details.
With full 1P8 - instead of filtering the full list like in 1P7, I get what really is just another Quick Search, which is, apologies for bluntness, the most ludicrous change I've ever seen. No idea what was supposed to be the advantage here - if I wanted QS I'd open QS. I wouldn't though, because of all the reasons above - QS's quite bad IMO, mini was Quick, QS isn't.