1Password has issued 1Password 8.12, adding Dark mode and clear icons for macOS 26 Tahoe. The password manager resolves an issue with an unclickable prompt when being asked to enable two-factor authentication during sign-in, fixes a bug where one-time password fields from Bitwarden login items didn’t import correctly, updates the account icon shown in the authentication prompt when using the command-line interface or SDK desktop app integrations, resolves an issue where items containing files could be duplicated or moved into accounts where file storage was turned off, and improves localization for a number of supported languages. ($47.88 annual individual subscription from 1Password, free update, 4.8 MB installer download, release notes, macOS 12+)
I’ve used 1Password for years. I keep using (and paying) because I’ve yet to learn of their database being hacked. I’m a professional and have been maintaining very complex records of ACLs since early days (1982). I have, and maybe Tonya and Adam can relate to this, over 60,000 passphrases, logins, ACLs, details across 700 items. Keeping that organized is quite the task, but when a client has locked all their team out of a mission-critical online resource, guess who they call at 11pm on a Sunday night?
1Password has a decent interface, but it is badly flawed:
Whoever heard of installing a mandatory spell-check for the notes field in a password manager? I thought the whole idea was that passwords did NOT contain common words. I end up with dozens of dotted red lines under such common phrases as “D87$c-3#mM-V297n@8*nn”
1Password provides no way to check for ambiguous characters (and even suggests things like 1s, Is, and ls in their password generation system)
1Password cannot provide a simple character count as one enters a new password - there’s a big difference between a 13-letter password and a 14-letter password - some sites require a minimum number. What am I doing holding up a pencil to a number on a display and saying out loud, “1-2-3-4” etc.
1Password used to “rate” the quality of passwords you come up with phrases like “Fantastic” - at least they did away with that nonsense. Now its good, fair, and very good (don’t know if there’s “totally awesome”, too.
Need to actually format text in notes? Good luck. Let’s say you want to create an identified list, with “username” on the left, and “testing12” on the right. How do you separate them? With a tab key, what else? Except 1Password eliminated tabs in their notes, assigning the tab to move between fields, I think. So let’s say you -need- tab keys to arrange your columns. You have to enter TAB into a text document, then literally copy and paste into your note. Except: the tab formatting does not display while you’re in EDIT mode. You have to SAVE the note.
5a. And FORGET about Markup - when you paste in critical codes into the notes, 1PW can start, end, curtail, enhance and alter all the Markup in an entire note because the code might contain characters 1PW thinks are markup.
And while we’re on formatting, what’s with 1PW arbitrarily assigning random pastel colors to the icons to every Login item? No control over that, no way to override. Folks, this is heavy-duty professional data management. If I need to see pretty random colors, I can open a box of crayons. As it is, this wacky color scheme only serves to make things more visually confusing.
Would you like a SEARCH function to find a particular string? If you type in a phrase (let’s say it’s Microsoft) 1PW highlights every item that contains that string in your Vault, but - it will not find that string inside the item. So if you have note that is, say 200 lines long with Microsoft Exchange logins, 1PWs suggested workflow is scroll down until you spot it. I guess that’s SEARCH at its most literal.
I could go on. Their security is first rate, and there’s much to be said for power of this tool. But their UX is nutty, and over they years they’ve hobbled and handcuffed this very good software with so much unecessary wacky formatting, and eliminated many mission-critical tools.
I have used 1Password since June 2022; but it has become so unreliable; it no longer works properly with Safari; I have downloaded so many updates hoping that its bugs would be fixed; so many requests for help have been ignored; and all these problems have gone unfixed for so long (more than I year IIRC), that I have come to hate it. Can someone one suggest an alternative ?