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Forum Discussion
Setup verification codes
On the latest iOS app, I see an option to setup 2FA authentication codes using 1Password, see screenshot.
How exactly is toss feature used?
I've been using Authy for several years, I was not ...
I think the purpose of this iOS platform feature is two-fold: it both allows induction of codes (as rudy describes) and auto-fills codes when needed. Rather, this is how the feature is supposed to work. For example, this article shows how it functions using iCloud Keychain: https://tidbits.com/2021/10/07/add-two-factor-codes-to-password-entries-in-ios-15-ipados-15-and-safari-15/. See this screenshot from the article:
If 1Password fully supports this feature, the benefit is not with websites. As @shhh says, the 1Password browser extension already does a fabulous job with that. The real win would be when logging into apps: iOS would offer the OTP in that strip above the software keyboard, pulled from 1Password. In other words, we wouldn't need to use the "copy OTP to clipboard" feature of 1Password anymore.
I hope the team is working on full support for this feature, because it is in my book the only "less than perfect" aspect of filling passwords in an app. Don't get me wrong: I am grateful for the cleverness of the "copy OTP to clipboard" feature. Filling OTPs with the platform "verification codes" feature, however, would just smooth out the user experience.
