Format a Secure Note to include BOLD TEXT
I'm in the minority when it comes to notes. I want to ADD bold text, not remove it. As a new user with a steep learning curve, I'm not using all the capabilities of 1 Password, but enough to make my life infinitely easier. I only have 152 entries and of those maybe 20 are notes. If you could tell me how to write the note to include an occasional word in bold, I will do so. Thank you.Using Raycast Snippets Instead of 1Password Profile
The one password profile and the ability to integrate with the browser has been one of the biggest pains in my ass I've ever experienced. I am now moving over to Raycast Snippets in order to fill out any address information quickly and easily. I can't believe how much time I've wasted with trying to make the profile feature work for one password. And I'm at the point where Raycast might just replace most of the features that 1Password is trying to develop. Tutorial On How To Setup Snippet Note - I am spelling address wrong b/c I don't want to duplicate the snippets I have setup. I made this video to help others not for snarky comments.
Default for Sign In Automatically after Autofill
I may not be a "typical" user, as I am continually looking at new browsers and computer for my personal and professional life. I use 1Password extensively in my personal and professional life. I have both personal and business accounts. As a result, I am installing the 1Password extension many times, not necessarily daily, or even weekly, but often enough where I feel this warrants at least a discussion. I am not a fan of the "sign in automatically after autofill" feature. While I can see it as a "nice" feature for some, for me it creates more confusion in the long run than whatever it is trying to "solve". Especially in this day and age of MFA, 2FA, etc. And for our older, more "mature" audience members, the quick actions after autofilling can lead to confusion. Anyway, I digress. I really dislike that I have to turn this "feature" OFF with every install. Why not have this default to OFF and make a suggestion to turn it ON if wanted? "Hey, did you know that 1Password can auto-submit your login? Go to settings and enable this.... " etc etc etc. While I do see that having many features enabled by default is a good thing, I feel that some features should be left up to the user to enable and not forced upon us. Could you consider making this an "optional" or "opt-in" feature and not turned on by default? Maybe I'm in the minority, and that's ok. It's just a suggestion. Thank you for your time!
Premature completion
I use a Microsoft 365 account, both personally and for work. I am having a terrible time with the authentication flow because 1Password automatically inputs the code for me in the interstitial screen (a benefit, to be sure), but its haste doesn't check, or allow me to check, the box that says "Don't ask again for 30 days". Checking this box is the only way to get the Microsoft KMSI to work when I have multiple profile browser windows open. Is there a way to have 1Password check this box for me by default (i.e., a boolean field that knows the ID or class of the checkbox)?
Disable Private or default to a Shared
We're a family and are long time users of 1Password. Ever since 1Password introduced the "Private vault", its caused more trouble, as every time a new Chrome profile gets created, or a new browser Extension gets installed the default vault resets back to "Private vault". These days, its common to get a new device (new Ipad, or new computer) and along with it a new browser, and we're always finding we have to reset our preferences for the default Vault to save new logins into, it gets reset back to "private vault" by default on any new installation. This leads to confusion and lost passwords, and duplicate accounts, because we expect the accounts to be synced. And we end up finding it in someones Private vault later on by accident. It's been an ongoing frustration, and I think the issue lies in how we have to choose the default Vault in settings for every extension, instead of having a global 1Password setting to choose the default vault account-wide. I'd love a solution here, as it's become a bigger and bigger issue and keeps coming up.
2 small iOS improvements (and new product ideas)
Hi, Thank you for acting on my previous suggestion to enable iOS context menu autofill in more places. It works great. But I was in an app that was asking for a new username and password (changing from a social login to a non-social login) and I had to create a new account. The current Passwords autofill has the ability to add accounts on other platforms, or from the Passwords prompt in iOS, but I couldn’t figure out how to add a new login or generate a password from the long-press/context generic autofill overlay. If you could add something when you search and maybe at the top or bottom of the default list to “Add a new login…” that would be great. If iOS prevents this, I would probably take this feedback to the Apple team. I believe in other contexts or platforms you can actually right-click and select Generate Password, but I’m forgetting how it works. I think creating a password from the Passwords autofill prompt is almost as good, though obviously this is a fallback and the iOS app author should make Password integration part of their app for creating accounts. The second bit of multi platform feedback is that often I need to type in a URL for something. It would be nice if in 2025 I didn’t have to type or see https://. Instead, assume all entries created without a protocol are https with a fallback to http - you can ask a browser to load the url without protocol and it should behave as expected. I say this because, like the 2FA tag (with passkeys), the https protocol vs http distinction has outlived its usefulness. Either a site supports it or it doesn’t but at this point I would add a setting warning that a password is autofilling into a clear text page and just ASSUME https for all URLs. I’d go so far as to correct (or remove) http:// from any old URLs in order to force the browser to try https again. The only exception is of course IP addresses or other ambiguous URLs since it’s not just websites. That said, even the idea of going to one password to launch a site seems a bit backward. Like if that were the case then 1Password could look and feel more like Xmarks or Okta or something - a dashboard of commonly used stuff. Actually that would be kinda cool, I could show content to family, you could add RSS feeds too, eg for new Netflix shows. Erm. Anyway… I often have subscriptions I want to notify family or coworkers about - in fact I might want to tell them in Google or prioritize a list of subscriptions in Kagi or JustWatch. But I digress… The problem here is we are conflating two things - which apps and websites should have access to the content and what should I launch to visit the thing? Yes they are often the same but maybe I would prefer to use an app? It is annoying to have to tell 1Password about the website on one platform and then when I visit another platform I have to potentially say it again. Not sure if that is a sync issue. Likewise iOS and Android native apps. There is a list of websites Apple uses to associate apps to sites, likewise on Android. It would be nice if 1Password could somehow use this list. It doesn’t change often. One more thing - I know keyboards are an ancient way of doing autofill and we don’t do that now, but it would be nice if we looked at how to handle quick switching between 1Password and whatever app I am logging in to or message I am writing to a friend or family. For example, on Android you can do split screen, side by side, or draw on top of apps. While on iOS, you can uh, not do that. Maybe on iPad you can. Anyway, the point is I trust 1Password enough that if I’m autofilling a password, I am telling 1Password that I use an app. It would be nice if 1Password worked with android permissions and requested nicely of Apple the permission to read existing or recent apps, perhaps frequently used apps or something with Siri. The point is that when I go to create a login, I recently visited a website or app and it needed a password and for whatever reason (maybe I don't know about it) I didn’t use the right click autofill or Password prompt. Then what I want to do is see the recent app as a prompt when adding a password or perhaps as a default list of passwords. I mean it is 2025. Why should I have to type in a website URL if I have a browser tab open already? If something doesn’t work let’s find a fallback so we can prompt the user even faster to create a login or use one. I would also love it if you could work with major companies like Google or Apple to add a feature to their login pages so that if more than one passkey or login exists in 1Password, they show up as suggestions in the webpage, provided in part by the 1Password extension. It is annoying to have to click a username field to focus it or type in an email, particularly when it is not detected as a password autofill prompt due to a two-step login where you type email first. This should also affect the login switcher on Google and other sites, where you can switch accounts with a click. If you want to go whole hog, work with Safari or Firefox tab profiles and somehow associate logins or passkeys to profiles such that if I am in a profile I first see the logins for it, or if I use or switch to a login, the tab might instead change to that profile. I guess what I’m saying is there is a lot of potential to improve the UX for launching and working with websites/apps and autofilling than what we have now and it would be interesting to see some new prototype of this. 1Password itself could move from being about dry logins and security to being about helping family and teams juggle multiple identities, multiple browser profiles or tab profiles, stay in sync across browsers and share content. Imagine if 1Password kept a secure history of the websites you visit, or those you autofilled at least, it could tell you how often family members use services if it integrated with apps and browsers to track this, it could help you manage subscription costs by noting them or tracking bills with your logins, it could be a social hub sharing content or new services and subscriptions with family and coworkers to make use of, it could be an intranet of sorts. Right now it is hard to convince family to use 1Password because they already use Safari or Chrome or have only one primary device. They aren’t geeks with 10 devices cross platform who need a single password manager. What we should be doing is making a simple experience for families on any device or platform to login to and use any other platform or service. I’d suggest adding MDM capabilities to get the info about apps and websites, but I don’t know how much I trust y’all with my devices if VC funding needs to get repaid and you jack up the prices. At least right now if I needed another platform I could find one. The developer geek in me has another idea tho - Home Assistant is already an interesting self-host platform for managing a home’s smart gadgets and sensors, it can also work with cameras and TVs. It has a web dashboard and you can write add-ons that run as docker containers. You can run it anywhere you can run a specific Linux disk image, including x86, arm, raspberry pi, and so on. It does require a bit of custom hardware for Zigbee, Matter or Bluetooth proving, but uh, the point is you could have a webpage or dashboard that lives there, and I could see running an MDM from there too, as well as a service to check for and share interesting content from subscription services. I guess there is a part of me that wishes 1Password, JustWatch and RescueTime had a baby and it was self-hostable on a home server such as Home Assistant. bonus suggestion: I’ve Tailscale and it would be cool to have some kind of integration between Tailscale and 1Password. Another idea for data collection about recent apps or login suggestions would be to talk to ControlD or NextDNS and get a list of recent lookups for my device which would tell you what apps I’m likely using. Yeah, maybe I just want the 1Password self-hosted SIEM that’s useful and user friendly, and private by default. I’d build it myself but I’m not quite ambitious enough. Maybe Amazon Eero could build something like this, since they have the data and an incomplete Eero Plus subscription, but I’m worried any service a big player like Amazon builds expands until it looks like a Fire TV stick or Kindle or ChromeCast - it starts open and awesome, ends up locked down with ads and subscriptions galore as a branded product. Oh, and if you do any of the above unsolicited ideas, please don’t break the 1Password that we already know and love. I don’t want to wake up one day and see 1Password 9 with a Windows XP playskool colour scheme and big friendly buttons for toddlers. Edit: Wait, maybe I do, it would be awesome to have a locked down version that I could hand in kiosk mode to a kid. Apple might block this as a launcher if it let you run apps tho. And not sure how to simplify auto login. Oh, that’s another idea - right now when you visit a website you haven’t logged into you have to click Login first. Let me toggle a feature on a site by site basis to automatically log me in if not signed in. If you can track who is signed in on which site currently to help me switch accounts eg using browser profiles, you can also help me login to a site by detecting I’m not logged in, logging me in, and returning me to the newspaper article or whatnot. Bonus points if you detect the login prompt popup the newspaper or site displays and can help remind me that I already have an account and show the accounts I have, or say Skip this screen or something, to login automatically if not already logged in. Extra bonus points if you can read my text messages or email for the login code, locally, and autofill it, but that probably requires browser-level integrations for auto-login. I would say at this point that passkeys will never replace email/sms codes, just as blogs didn’t replace email or social logins didn’t replace passwords. It would be nice if 1Password used secure Bluetooth LE to pair and sync a one-time code just as Passkeys does today to confirm a login on a nearby Bluetooth device. I don’t trust sending one-time codes from email or sms to a cloud service but I could see myself sharing them over Bluetooth for browser autofill cross-platform, for sure. It’s incredibly annoying that platforms still see 2FA autofill as a form of platform lock-in, such that if I use an iOS device I can’t easily get 2FA codes to an Android tablet by Bluetooth or copy-paste. There’s probably a missing 2FA tokens spec for Passkeys right there.
