Share Wi-Fi Credentials via QR code!

Thank you 1Password for continuing to innovate an incredible application. I've greatly benefited from it. 

I am compelled to share a suggestion for the QR password introduced. While I'm glad to see it can be turned off, I strongly recommend that it be concealed by default. (Too late now, I suppose . . .) 

I just learned about the QR feature in a most unfortunate manner. I was showing my friend the password for our guest network which happens to be in the same login as the main network. I revealed the guest network and showed it to my friend. He saw the QR code and scanned that thinking that was what I was showing him. I didn't even realize what that QR code was for until I noticed my friend had just connected to our main network. :( To make the matter worse, I had just recently updated the password for our main network and updating all our devices on the network with the new password. I then went into my 1password and had to find the setting to conceal all the QR codes. 

Thanks again for a really helpful product. Despite my complaint, I still really appreciate 1Password.

I was excited when this first came out, since this makes it easier to share with family and guests, but then I discovered the QR codes do not work for my setup - when ssid is hidden.  I had reached out to support about this about 9 months ago, but haven't seen a fix included in any updates yet.  Is there one in the pipeline?  Or maybe it's already included and I don't see it?  It's disappointing thinking I need to choose between easy sharing login credentials and having my network secured the way I want (not broadcasting ssid).

Ha! I just thought a few weeks ago how handy such a feature would be - you literally read my mind. Thanks for adding this very useful feature. :-)

That's such a great question rctneil. I can't promise anything will 100% for sure get done. The reality is things come up, lists get re-prioritized, some things get done and some don't. That's true for every product I've ever worked on.

While building this feature, I went back through the forums and found posts from 2017 and earlier asking for Wi-Fi QR codes. The answers at the time were "we also want to do this". And we did want to. But it took until this summer to deliver it because there is always "lots to do".

I don't want anything to take that long but I can't see the future. I hope that we've earned your trust over the years to know that we're doing our best and working every day to deliver you a valuable product.

ag_andrew Can I ask if some of these things that i've been seen mentioned on the forum as "we intend to do them", or "lots to do", or "we also want to do this", will actually get done?

Some examples, updated item templates, custom templates, bi-directional item linking.

I see new features being released to developers and other brand new initiatives, but these things are always on the "yes, that could be improved" list and never materialise.

Ronso Amazing, ahead of the curve! You're right that item linking could also be improved.

Lots to do 😅

Already linked them.

I like using that functionality.

Although I would also love it if I linked item A to item B, it would automatically link item B to item A.

But that's another story altogether 😅

Hey Ronso, I'm glad you're finding it useful!

You're right. The Wireless Router item is showing its age. It's from a time when most consumer level routers only supported one network. I'd love to re-work that item to support a larger number of networks (and hence a larger number of QR codes), but for now you'll need to use the workaround you found (using multiple items). You can link the items together to more quickly jump between them if you need.

Let us know if you run into any more trouble 💙

Hey rctneil, I think this is a great suggestion. It's something we've talked about but haven't scheduled at this point. I think we'd probably start with image export since those can be used & printed in many ways.

Thanks again for your feedback, keep it coming 💙

Hi, thanks for this feature.

I created my router via New Object -> "WLAN-Router".
Since my router sends several WLANs, I thought that all QR codes would be displayed.
Unfortunately, this was not the case.
So I created all my WLANs as a new objects, whereby the term "WLAN router" is probably not quite correct here, but unfortunately there is no "WIFI" or "WLAN" object.

Just a little suggestion.

Thanks again