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mike99
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2 years ago

Transfer OTP code from mobile phone SMS message to Chrome plugin on laptop

Hello. I'm not sure if this is a "How do I" (if the functionality already exists) or a "Feature Request" (if it doesn't), but I was just trying to log in to a website on my laptop that will only s...
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mike99
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

Hi Tommy,

Sorry - I should have put some more detail I guess :-). My devices are an iPhone with 1Password Mobile installed and a Laptop running Windows 11 with 1Password for Windows and the 1Password Chrome extension.

I think the feature I'm currently talking about is this, which I thought was part of 1Password but looks like it's actually part of iOS:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphc89a3a3af/ios

Basically:

  1. You receive a OTP SMS message...
  2. ... which iOS reads the code from...
  3. ...and lets you insert it into the browser page

This works great for phone-based web browsing, but it would be great to get a similar capability on my laptop - I don't know if this is even technically possible, but the thought process is that the 1Password iOS Mobile App could also extract these codes from SMS messages and sync them to my online vault so I could use them from 1Password for Windows when I'm trying to log on from my laptop - e.g.:

I'm probably just being a bit lazy trying to avoid manually typing in 6 digits from a text message into my laptop's browser, but maybe there's room for a future feature in 1Password :-).

Cheers,

M