WLAN & 1Password 7.7.7

wavesound

I am ever more thankful for your heads up about v.8 - perhaps 7.8 THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!

I am pleased I have years of 1Password MacOS version backups and years of 1Password IOS backups that I can rollback. I learned to keep backups, in particular to IOS, because sometimes the changes are not agreeable. It's nice to return to functionality when it's without notice taken away! I hope you have lots of backups too.

I did not update to IOS 15 not only because of privacy concerns but just in case 1Password broke. I have all my old iPhones and can always rollback. I hope many folks here have their backups, too, so that they can continue to enjoy the most extraordinary features of 1Password without the subscription model if this is something you do not want.

Maybe, if the Agilebites investors agreed, a renewal will be offered, even at a high price, allowing those of us who do not subscribe to the cloud narrative to continue our relationship with Agilebites.

Thank you for the kind words @golucid! And thank you for the many years together :) In case you change your mind in the future, we would love to have you back of course :+1:

1P_Dave

Hi and thank you for your note and the link to your founders' essay. I completely appreciate your move to go to a subscription model. I, on the other hand, will not be following 1Password into this model. I suppose, I am too old school :) I only wish all of you the very best and such great success. Thank you for the many years of an amazing product. Truly, amazing. Until, it simply fails, will continue to use the legacy software.

@golucid

The future of 1Password is indeed memberships. 1Password 8 only works with a 1Password membership. Our founder Dave wrote a great post about why we're changing our support for standalone licenses here: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comment_601917

I will mention: 1Password 8 will be a separate download so you won't be forced to upgrade from 1Password 7 on your iPhone or iPad. You can use 1Password 7 and WLAN sync for as long as it works on your devices. We're not removing WLAN sync from 1Password 7.

At the moment we're offering generous discounts for a 1Password membership if you're a longtime user of the licensed version of 1Password. If you're interested then send us an email at support@1password.com :)

Thanks so much. I should start to transition to an alternative now. Keepassium and StrongBoxlooks do offer a plethora of synch options - awesome. I do not mind the $50-lifetime use fee as long as I do not have to subscribe. So far, the the StrongBox APP looks like a winner. I love 1Password and sad to have to go to another competitor, but that is business, and I am sure they expect a handful of folks to leave; otherwise, they would not take away all the freedom options.

HOLY SMOKES. Sadly, they are killing off both DropBox and iCloud syncing. This change suggests to me a subscription model. I will immediately check out the alternative software. I have been a 1Password user since the very beginning. Bummed, but I also understand that they need to extract move revenue out of its user base.

I’m pretty sure that 1Password intends to go subscription-only with their service since they are also removing DropBox and iCloud syncing options as well but I’m just a community member like you reading the same blogs and posts.

I’m not sure I’d be comfortable leaving all my crown jewels in EoL versions of 1Password. You may want to look at some of the KeePass mobile apps that support local synchronization with KeePass I’d you want to stay local-only. Keepassium and StrongBox come to mind.

rudy wavesound

Thanks for the heads up! By chance, do either of you know the possible version 8 ETA?

I use a product called, iMazing and am hoping that by keeping one of the 7.x IOS Apps backed up so that I can use that file with the future new versions of both IOS and iPhones as well as my Android devices too - therefore, avoiding version 8.

Do either of you know if the reason to get rid of WLAN is to force users into the subscription model or is there going to be another way to sync between devices?

Thanks again.

wavesound,

That is correct, 1Password 8 will not have support for WLAN server.

@golucid Just be aware that this WLAN server won’t be support on 1PW 8.