several issues after upgrading to V8 — is it possible to downgrade back to V7?

@Scott2 (re. #3) WOW! I had no idea that having the Menu Bar item changed the Safari Extension behavior. That fixed one of my https://1password.community/discussion/130590/1password-for-safari-extension-issues with v8. Well, "fixed" in quotes. If you have https://www.macbartender.com you can hide the 1Password menu bar item and then it's no big issue (but still dumb).

The board ate my last post, hopefully this doesn't become a duplicate. If it does, kindly disregard.

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Since this seems to be turning into a feedback thread, I'll throw in my 10 cents.

I've been on 1Password 8 for a week or two and I can't say I'm a fan. There's a few reasons . . .

1 - In many ways the UX feels like a step sideways. It's hard for me to quantify since I'm not a UX analyst, it just feels strange (and mostly not in a good way) whereas previous version changes always felt like a mostly positive improvement. An example that sticks out at me is the Watchtower score - is it really necessary to show a 3 second counting animation every time I click on that page, much less a "Share my score" button that I (without question) will NEVER use?

2 - The Search bar used to filter actively as you type, showing you the first record that matched your search alphabetically - now I get a dropdown with the closest matches but I have to hit the Return key to see them. I'd really like the previous functionality back.

3 - I HATE that "Keep 1Password in the menu bar" can't be disabled without sacrificing browser plugin experience (Safari, Firefox). Until now I never kept 1Password in my menu bar because it didn't add any value that a keyboard shortcut didn't - now I have to have it enabled (or suffer several extra clicks) and I'm unhappy about it. Before you think me strange, consider the Windows System Tray (Notification Area, whatever) - it started out innocuously enough but quickly became a dumpster fire, and I don't want that same thing on my Mac.

I'll be honest, I'm not considering moving to a different password manager, and I get you're not looking backward at v7. I genuinely like what you bring to the table with 1Password, and I hope you accept this feedback in the spirit it's meant - improving v8.

PS - THANK YOU for the Appearance Density preference - had I been stuck with "Comfortable" density I would have backdated to v7 and lived with it until it broke!!

EDIT: After some Googling, it seems that my feedback (at least item #1, possibly all 3) is due to the fact that 1Password 8 is an Electron app and not native. I genuinely didn’t know that when I made this post, so please read this feedback as coming from who loves the Mac (has since the late 80s) and was evaluating v7 vs v8 without the tinge of the Electron drama I’m sure you’re all sick to death of.

But still . . . sigh.

Since this seems to be turning into a feedback thread, I'll throw in my 10 cents.

I've been on 1Password 8 for a week or two and I can't say I'm a fan. There's a few reasons . . .

1 - In many ways the UX feels like a step sideways. It's hard for me to quantify since I'm not a UX analyst, it just feels strange (and mostly not in a good way) whereas previous version changes felt like a mostly positive improvement. An example that sticks out at me is the Watchtower score - is it really necessary to show a 3 second counting animation every time I click on that page, much less a "Share my score" button that I will - without question - never use?

2 - The Search bar used to filter actively as you type, showing you the first record that matched your search alphabetically - now I get a dropdown with the closest matches but I have to hit the Return key to see them. I'd really like the previous functionality back.

3 - I HATE that "Keep 1Password in the menu bar" can't be disabled without sacrificing browser plugin experience. Until now I never kept 1Password in my menu bar because it didn't add any value that a keyboard shortcut didn't - now I have to have it enabled (or suffer several extra clicks) and I'm unhappy about it. Before you think me strange, consider the Windows System Tray (Notification Area, whatever) - it started out innocuously enough but quickly became a dumpster fire, and I don't want that same thing on my Mac.

I'll be honest, I'm not considering moving to a different password manager, and I get you're not looking backward at v7. I genuinely like what you bring to the table with 1Password, and I hope you accept this feedback in the spirit it's meant - improving v8.

PS - THANK YOU for the Appearance Density preference - had I been stuck with "Comfortable" density I would have backdated to v7 and lived with it until it broke!!

EDIT: After some Googling, I'm guessing that the above feedback (at the very least item 1, possibly all 3) is due to the fact that 1Password 8 is an Electron app and not native. I genuinely didn't know, so please take the above as input from someone assessing v7 vs v8 UI without the tinge of the drama I'm sure you're all sick of.

But still, now that I know - sigh / . . .

Just FYI, I ran into similar things. I installed 1Password 8 and really didn't like it. A big one for me was the inability to select which vaults show up in All Vaults. I have access to my 94 YO Mom's account - for which I'm really thankful - but don't want to see those unless wanted.

Someone noted that the old install of 7 was zipped up in the app folder and so I just unzipped that am back on 7. Very easy and thank you to the 1Password team for making it easy.

@MaRob

Morning! Either place is fine. Whichever is to your liking. 😊

1P_Tommy , thank you for your fast reply. I am new here in the forum. Dose it make more sense to write some optimisation suggestions / wishes here or better direct per email?

@MaRob

They should be present. The data still comes from 1Password.com as in syncing. 1Password 7 and 8 use the same data format.

Hi, I am in the same position. I updated to V8 and I am really disappointed by many disadvanteges compared to V7.
I have used V7 now for 1 year, tested V8 now for two weeks. With that I also made some changes, that are not supported with V7 as I know. For example I added Registration PDFs as attachmends to licens entrys.
I am asking myself now, what will happen if I now go back to V7. Dose that work or will there be any problems?

The change is that a one-product company now valued in excess of $6billion feels a need to make life easier for its developers and not its customers. Unifying its code-base with a web-based technology is more important to AB than the quality and functionality that a native application could provide. Imagine if Adobe decided it was too much work, how many features would be stripped out of their applications. 1Password 8 is not ready for release and fails as a valid replacement for version 7. It doesn't matter how many 'homespun' emails Mr Teare sends out, the end of 1Password 7 will be the end of 1Password for many users.

Had v8 installed for 10 minutes and saw Mini wasn't working the way it used to. Saw I had to install a whole 'other app just for Safari... all that, plus reading comments here had me downgrading back to v7 right then and there. At least they made it easy as the v8 install had made a zip'd backup of v7 and had left it in my apps folder - so kudos for that. I will continue to use v7 for as long as I can - hoping they bring v8 into parity to v7. Ultimately, after using 1P for more than 13 years, once they force an upgrade, I'll find another solution - sad, but true.