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

The latest version of password manager 1Password 7.3 concentrates on its Mac version's menubar app which now lets you drag passwords and login details into websites or also into supported apps on your Mac.

Password manager 1Password is a service and a series of apps for Mac, iOS, Windows and Android, which remembers your login details and also creates new, strong passwords as you need them. The newly updated 1Password 7.3 for Mac concentrates chiefly on its menubar companion app, 1Password Mini, which has been revamped for quicker access.

Previously, 1Password Mini was for use in websites and was only made a system-wide menubar app so that you could use it as easily with Safari, Chrome, Firefox or any other browser. Recently, though, the 1Password Mini app has been made useful within other apps.

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In the previous version to this, 1Password Mini gained the ability to fill in your login details for apps such as ones in the Adobe Creative Cloud range. Now it's added others including those from the Omni Group. If you are in an app such as the OmniFocus To Do one, and you press the keystroke to launch 1Password Mini, it recognizes where you are and offers you relevant details.

Whereas with Apple's Keychain, you might have the login details for the app from when you signed up on its website, but getting those out into the app itself is a chore. Now 1Password 7.3 offers you the right login details for an app automatically.

Logging into an app or website will always be fastest using 1Password Mini and keystrokes because it automatically fills in the details. However, not all websites play nice with password managers and both to deal with them and just to give you another way of doing it, you can now drag login details from 1Password Mini and drop them onto the site or app.

You can now drag a login straight from 1Password's menubar app into a website

It would be good if you could drag both username and password at the same time, but this feature is especially useful when you have multiple accounts on the same service and 1Password can't know which one you need now.

This intelligent selection of what you're most likely to want appears to be done every time you open 1Password Mini, however. In the majority of cases that's going to be right, but previously if you went right back into 1Password Mini, it would open to the list of logins you last saw. That is sometimes more convenient if you're working through a series of logins.

To mitigate that, the new 1Password Mini app adds the ability to search tags. The main 1Password 7.3 app lists tags in a similar way to macOS Mojave's Finder windows, a sometimes endless column of them. So the fact that a regular search in the Mini app will now also find tags is useful.

The company now sells 1Password as a subscription service with different tiers and combinations. For an individual, you can have 1Password for Mac, iOS, Android and PC for $2.99 per month. Or you can use various family and teams tiers which let you share passwords in a group.

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17 Comments

MplsP 8 Years · 4047 comments

About 5 years ago

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.

ihatescreennames 19 Years · 1977 comments

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.

Soli 9 Years · 9981 comments

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.

lkrupp 19 Years · 10521 comments

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.

vmarks 21 Years · 762 comments

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.