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Former Member
3 years agoShould I use 1Password to manage the OTP for 1Password?
I'm really liking the OTP feature in 1Password... I didn't grasp that it could totally replace my other authenticators... but I'm looking at my 1Password credential itself, and I'm wondering if it's ...
Netpog
3 years agoDedicated Contributor
ag_mike_d, thanks for the link to that helpful Guide on protecting 1Password with 2FA. I admit: I had not been aware of this important feature, in part because it's hidden so obscurely. And I generally review all the settings in every app, because I'm that kind of nerd.
Problem is, I would expect to enable 2FA via "Settings" (in the right-side navbar under the account's name). I don't think of this as an attribute of my "Profile", and even if I did, I'd never think of it as an "Action". It's a security setting.
Even if I'm wrong (or weird) with that expectation, I suggest that this is important enough to put on the main page, rather than behind a "more stuff" link.
As for the app, I do appreciate that it would be a challenge to make this more obvious there, because the app supports multiple accounts, and thus its "Settings" feature is not specific to any one account. (Although that could be changed with a drop-down menu, I can't see that significant task getting high priority.) Even so, I'd expect "manage accounts" to be in the main menu, rather than behind my list of vaults/collections.