Hands on: 1Password 7.3 for Mac recognizes apps and introduces drag and drop login

I started using 1Password years ago when Apple ditched MobileMe keychain syncing. It’s a great program and much more powerful than keychain.

I wish it would coordinate better with Keychain though. Up until Apple allowed password managers to better integrate with iOS I was using keychain more often simply because it worked so much better with my iPad and iPhone. Now I essentially have 2 parallel password files.

I wish they hadn’t gone the subscription route. I used to recommend 1Password to people all the time. It was a little bit of a tough sell because many didn’t want to shell out $50 for, well, any software. Once I showed them how it worked for me it became easier but not always. Now that 1Password needs a monthly payment people balk even more, especially since Keychain does the job for most people. Keep in mind, it isn’t uncommon for me to hear people complain about paying $1 a month for 50GB of iCloud storage, so $3 is just crazy talk to them.

MplsP said:

I started using 1Password years ago when Apple ditched MobileMe keychain syncing. It’s a great program and much more powerful than keychain.

I wish it would coordinate better with Keychain though. Up until Apple allowed password managers to better integrate with iOS I was using keychain more often simply because it worked so much better with my iPad and iPhone. Now I essentially have 2 parallel password files.

I've made countless recommendations over the years that have been implemented (I'm sure I wasn't neither the only one or first to make the suggestion), but one thing they haven't implemented is an areas for recording your health in detail with expiry dates that let you know from the app with a notification and/or a calendar entry.

For example, keeping a detailed list of a tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis shot, which will remind me when 10 years is about to expire. I've made my own detailed system in the Secure Notes section, but a pre-set category would made this easier.

I'd also like to be able to move Sections around, not just the label and items within a section. I buy add new vehicles and other pertinent data in Secure Notes that require listed a lot of detail, but they keep being placed below one another further down which adds time to find the newer items. Not a huge deal, but still a level of inconvenience, and breaking them all out individually for that Secure Note would clutter up that section too much.

ihatescreennames said:

I wish they hadn’t gone the subscription route. I used to recommend 1Password to people all the time. It was a little bit of a tough sell because many didn’t want to shell out $50 for, well, any software. Once I showed them how it worked for me it became easier but not always. Now that 1Password needs a monthly payment people balk even more, especially since Keychain does the job for most people. Keep in mind, it isn’t uncommon for me to hear people complain about paying $1 a month for 50GB of iCloud storage, so $3 is just crazy talk to them.

I'm fine with it and it's now less costly for me at $1 per month. As the one that has to deal with everyone's technical issues anyway, I created a family account and have put pretty much everyone on my family plan. I have them send me $12 for the year via Apple Pay Cash and help them set it up. It's also easier for me to reset their master password remotely if they forget 🤦‍♂️ and to have shared vaults for the items that are used between one of more family members. I remember it being a bit overwhelming when I first started using 1P, but Keychain was (and is) far too anemic for my needs.

My system was to have to input a single name, username, and password for a website or app per day. This prevents them from being overwhelmed by that initial and helps establish facilities with the app. After that is effectively complete, then it's changing a single password per day to something complex and secure using their password generator. After that it's cleaning up a single login entry per day with stuff like attached email, credit card, etc. as noted in the accounts settings section of the app, as well, as secret questions and answers, and other data that could be pertinent in the login entry or other areas of the app, like added credit card and bank account data. Optional items for the more intrepid are cleaning up the URL that is auto-added, but that's more for visual effect, or wireless router access details, as well as the .config download as seen in AIrPort routers.

ihatescreennames said:

I wish they hadn’t gone the subscription route. I used to recommend 1Password to people all the time. It was a little bit of a tough sell because many didn’t want to shell out $50 for, well, any software. Once I showed them how it worked for me it became easier but not always. Now that 1Password needs a monthly payment people balk even more, especially since Keychain does the job for most people. Keep in mind, it isn’t uncommon for me to hear people complain about paying $1 a month for 50GB of iCloud storage, so $3 is just crazy talk to them.

Then let ‘em get hacked. Who cares about the cheaptards? They are of no use to anyone, especially developers. They’re all over the Apple discussion forums. “I want an app that will run my life for me and do everything I want it to immediately and to my satisfaction... but it has to be free or it’s a no-go. I paid $4000 for my MacBook but I won’t pay a dime for any software to run on it.”

I subscribe to a number of what I consider mission critical apps and 1Password 7 is one of them, along with Office 365 and Quicken.

Subscription fatigue is real. I was happy paying for it as a standalone license, but it's a shame that they've made that option either unavailable or severely hidden. I want to own the license, not rent it. I want to store my vault where I'm comfortable with it, not on any password manager's server. I'm staying with 1Password 6 for now. I am not interested in software as a subscription, not when MS does it, not when Adobe does it, not when Intuit does it, and not when Agilebits does it.