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1Password fails to provide applicable password for some well known sites with requirements
I have commented / started a discussion in the past but it is now becoming a regular affair for me to correct the password created by 1Password as it simply not able to generate the password as per a website's requirement. Check for instance VFS Global (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFS_Global) website (this is one of the most well known passport administration outsourcing companies for governments and diplomatic missions) Basically this website helps you apply for a visa for e.g. Schengen Visa from your home country to Europe. If I try to register it has a strict requirement for a password for e.g. (https://visa.vfsglobal.com/gbr/en/nld/register) The "smart" suggestion is completely wrong and I have to constantly refresh to achieve the desired format. At one point I simply give up and just replace the invalid symbol and add one of the approved ones. Same is the case for another well known website TLS Contact Now, I do not want to get into a discussion that the password randomness or security will be a concern as mentioned in the replies from Request for a powerful pasword generator. | 1Password Community 1Password Password Suggestions could be better | 1Password Community https://old.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/1bocryy/1password_feature_missing_or_am_i_missing_the/kwt1apq/ The reply from reddit by one of the employees of 1Password quotes This can sound unintuitive, but a 25-character random password with no restrictions on its composition is stronger and harder to crack than a 25-character password where 6 of those characters must be digits and 4 must be symbols. I agree on this but stronger and harder is really subjective. Literally 15-character passwords even with requirements are already strong and hard take for instance the below password generated from Roboform (I really like the idea how Roboform has done, where user provides which symbols to include) This is the strength of the above password Notice there are 2 symbols, surely if I replace one char with a symbol it will greatly improve. Now, if I now use 1Password and generate a 15-character password Below is its strength Agreed 2 Billion (Roboform's 2 symbol) <<<<< 4 trillion (1Password's 3 symbol) but surely both these passwords are STRONG and HARD enough to crack. I am confident that many users (including myself) can live with password with 2 billion years to crack if their password manager is able to generate the password as restricted by a website and avoid spending tedious time getting the password right. All I am suggesting is have an option to select some symbols(similar to roboform) like the ones applicable and have the password generate for me. It should be an optional requirement where if user selects this feature then it mandatory for the user to provide the symbols they want and then password be generated accordingly.
Questions regarding spyware and protecting my account
I have been having chrome and think or swim crashes. May be due to high ram utilzation of 92% (I have 16GB Ram) so Dell gave me a tuneup and found Spyware (no details). If they have my vault password, can't they just go to 1password.com, logon (assuming they know my email address) and login to all my passwords? Ahah I just tried using a different browser to login and it required my secret key (thats cool). So is that the safeguard? Even if Spyware got my vault password (I will change it now) if they were no longer in my PC they couldn't get in? Is there a chance they grabbed my passwords from in the vault? I got rid of McAfee 2 weeks ago and Windows Defender came immediately on. Assuming McAfee didn't miss it why wouldn't Windows Defender have caught it? I also scanned with Malwarebytes 2 weeks ago and it was clean. Also watchtower didn't catch it.
How does the recovery of a private vault in the Family account work
I’m trying to wrap my head around how private vault recovery works when someone forgets their Master Password. From what I understand, the Master Password plus the Secret Key are used to lock and unlock the keys that actually protect all the vault data. The client device generates the Master Unlock Key each time a user accesses 1Password by providing the Master Password, which is combined with the Secret Key. The asymmetric keys that are kept securely encrypted on the server, right? If the Master Password is lost, the user can’t generate the Master Unlock Key to obtain keys, so they can’t get into their private vault. At that point, the account organizer can start the recovery process. What I don’t get is: what additional piece of information does the organizer and/or the server have that makes it possible to get back the keys needed to decrypt the vault? I realize that the recovery process also involves extra safeguards, such as a secure email, which should keep outsiders locked out even if they somehow got the Secret Key. But if some piece of recovery data really is stored on the servers, what’s stopping a malicious insider from bypassing the email step and taking over the vault? Could you point to documentation that explains this? Thank you!"Password" as password shown on 1Password, and no tech support from 1Password
When attempting to log in to a target website using 1Password, my target website indicated my password was incorrect. I checked the 1Password Win 11 desktop app and saw the screen below. Note the password is "Password" and, while properly indicating the password was vulnerable, the field next to "Password" indicates the password is "fantastic." Of course, no one who values a service like 1Password would ever use the password "Password," nor did I. Even if someone attempted to use "Password" a target website would likely reject it. I did immediately change the target website password, but I had to view my password history on 1Password to satisfy the target website requirements to provide the current password in order to change passwords. However, I checked 1Password about a day later and once again saw that the password had been reset to "Password." How did this happen? Could it also happen (or has happened) to one or more websites in my vault? I have contacted 1Passord support, and they weren't able to answer my question. I offered to send system logs. Their response was that I had done something wrong. When I asked my request be elevated to a higher level of tech support, I was ignored.
Using 1Password Alongside iCloud Passwords
I’m running both iCloud Passwords and 1Password in Safari. Each has different sets of credentials, so I switch between them depending on the account. The issue: when I log in with iCloud Passwords, 1Password still pops up asking me to save those credentials. Is there any way to stop 1Password from prompting in this situation? Or is it just something you have to live with if you run both password managers in Safari? Would love to hear if anyone’s figured out a workaround.Re: Ongoing Autofill Issues on Android
This has been happening for nearly a year now. Every time Android "updates", it seems to break whatever settings autofill was on (preferably 1PW, or why would we be here) and "reset" the Chrome browser to default to using Google Chrome's built-in password manager. I too have found I need to regularly go into the app, settings, auto-fill, and switch back to "use another password manager", then re-start the Chrome browser. Incidentally, this also seems to be the same exact problem with M.S. Edge's "Chrome" based browser in my Windows 10 OS. Every time they update (nearly daily), they break the functionality within that browser too, to where it doesn't work as it should. Between Google and M.S., they are clearly trying to "WIN" the password manager war and break 1PW's back with functionality issues and complaints. Perhaps their persuasion campaign to push passkeys (and to manage those too) is driving all of this, or they do it just because they can, or something else is driving it... I see three separate threads on this same topic among just the first page of results on the "Android" tagged topic list page, so this is clearly widespread and hitting a nerve. By design, I suspect (looking straight at you, Google & M.S.). Maybe 1PW simply needs to follow-on right after any Chrome update with one of their own, if only to "reset" the damage the Chrome update always seems to do to these settings.Re: Restrict items in Quick Access to the currently selected collection
This old issue is still a problem in 2025 with 1Password 8.11.10. Is there a way to get Quick Access to respect the vaults set in the active Collection? When using Quick Access, all vaults are always searched and this is extremely limiting and annoying. Especially because I have many items I rarely need or use tucked away in separate vaults which purposely do not appear in any of my Collections. I'll also mention that this is especially problematic for business users with many team vaults. All of the vaults (including many team vaults I very rarely use or need but have access to) are searched from Quick Access and there doesn't appear to be any way to prevent this.
Disable "Other suggestions" in search results?
Is there a way to disable the "Other suggestions" section in 1Password search results? They're almost never useful to me, and they just make the search results list harder to use. For example, if I type my bank's name into the search field, I expect to get four results—the accounts for each of the four members of my family. Instead I get ~40 results, separated one by an easy-to-miss, grey-text "Other suggestions" label. (Those suggestions are also rarely useful, even if I typed the search string incorrectly. When I type my bank's name, I get "Other suggestions" that include things as varied as Hulu, our internet provider, online-video services, and more.
