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ajahn
4 years agoSuper Contributor
Where are the password generation settings?
After upgrading to the new Chrome extension, I tried generating a password. What happened to all the settings? No way to turn on/off numbers or special characters? What if a site doesn't allow specia...
Jack_P_1P
1Password Team
4 years agoThat's exactly why we created the Smart Password generator type, making the default work as many places as possible! It relies on rules provided by the website (in the passwordrules attribute in the HTML of the form), or if the website doesn't have rules provided, it also checks a list compiled in part by Apple of similar password rules, in case someone has contributed it before the website developers have had a chance to define their rules in a way that password managers can easily read. For more details on how the Smart Password Generator works, this blog post digs a bit further into it: A smart(er) password generator
Jack