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1Password for Mac gets support for Touch Bar & Touch ID on new MacBook Pros

AgileBits has updated its flagship password management app for the Mac, 1Password, with support for the Touch ID and Touch Bar features on 2016 MacBook Pros.

Touch ID must be enabled from 1Password's Security Preferences menu, but will then let people unlock the app with a quick fingerprint scan. Touch Bar support should make it easier to run searches, add new items, and switch between vaults as well as lock them down.

The first MacBook Pro shipments have yet to arrive, but 1Password is part of the first wave of Mac apps with Touch Bar compatibility to be approved by Apple.

1Password has also been upgraded with a new first-run experience, designed to be simpler whether people are signing into an existing account or opening a new one. It should also be easier to search through vaults using third-party apps, one of the first apps updated for this being Alfred.

1Password for the Mac costs $64.99, and requires OS X 10.10 or better.

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16 Comments

macxpress

said about 7 years ago

I wish Apple would release a USB (and/or bluetooth) keyboard with TouchID. I'm thinking they will as I'm willing to bet the next generation iMac will have TouchID support. Apple's keyboards need to be revised anyways. I'm hoping for black keys.

theunfetteredmind

said about 7 years ago

macxpress said:

I wish Apple would release a USB (and/or bluetooth) keyboard with TouchID. I'm thinking they will as I'm willing to bet the next generation iMac will have TouchID support. Apple's keyboards need to be revised anyways. I'm hoping for black keys.

This is my hope too, as my primary machine now is a late 2009 iMac (along with a late 2013 13" Retina MBP) and I'd love to have Touch ID unlocking for 1Password.

macxpress

said about 7 years ago

theunfetteredmind said:

macxpress said:

I wish Apple would release a USB (and/or bluetooth) keyboard with TouchID. I'm thinking they will as I'm willing to bet the next generation iMac will have TouchID support. Apple's keyboards need to be revised anyways. I'm hoping for black keys.

This is my hope too, as my primary machine now is a late 2009 iMac (along with a late 2013 13" Retina MBP) and I'd love to have Touch ID unlocking for 1Password.

As well as logging into your user account and ApplePay support.

apple ][

said about 7 years ago

macxpress said:

I wish Apple would release a USB (and/or bluetooth) keyboard with TouchID. I'm thinking they will as I'm willing to bet the next generation iMac will have TouchID support. Apple's keyboards need to be revised anyways. I'm hoping for black keys.

I think that they might eventually, but I don't think that it's going to be anytime soon. I would of course love to be proven wrong by Apple.

Maybe in a year from now, if we're lucky.

I've been saying in other threads that the Touch Bar seems like an awesome addition to have and use on OS X devices, and I'd buy a Touch Bar Apple Keyboard in a nanosecond if they released one, but I think that it's more like Apple to keep it as a MacBook Pro exclusive, at least for the time being.

Not everybody needs a new MacBook Pro or has plans to buy one in the near future, but tons of people have other OS X devices that they use, and a Touch Bar Apple Keyboard would be an extremely popular item, if they decide to make one.

Again, please prove me wrong Apple, and release one soon. They would sell a gazillion of them.

apple ][

said about 7 years ago

macxpress said:

I'm hoping for black keys.

Haven't you heard, orange is the new black? B)

I'd love to see Apple release a brand new limited edition orange key Touch Bar keyboard! Woah! I'd be all over that one! :#

That is of course never going to happen, unfortunately, so I agree with you, and I would be content with seeing black keys on the next Apple Keyboard.

Enough with the white already! I'm tired of it.

Time for the complete opposite next time, bring back the black keys.

Some of my older Mac keyboards have dark and black keys, and I wouldn't mind my next Apple keyboard having black keys again.

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