Email and Apps on IOS
Does using 1P render Apps for the apple store useless or difficult to manage?
For example, if I have a Fidelity App on my phone and generate a password that I cant remember I could open the App but would have to manually enter the password? This would force me to use the 1P App to view the accounts and I would therefore not need the Fidelity App from apple store. Which would be true for almost all Apps.
Would i also have to remember my password for the apple App store? I don't see a way to logon while using 1P.
Finally if I want to secure my mail accounts with generated password (.mac and AOL don't laugh) how would that work? I mean on my IOS I have a mail App that is always logged on. If I needed to re-enter a password I would need to go into settings on my Iphone, again if it was a complicated password I would not remember it and 1P would not automatically load it?
Not sure if this makes sense, but I hope you get my gist
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While we have a growing list of apps that work with 1Password, see Apps ❤ 1Password, many that you use probably won't. In those instances your only recourse is copy and paste I'm afraid. It isn't ideal we agree but iOS is quite locked down which sometimes is a good thing. Touching a password in 1Password for iOS will bring up two options, Copy and Reveal. If you copy you can switch over to your other program and then paste.
1Password also has a timer for clearing the clipboard, something you may find useful. That feature is in 1Password's settings so Setting > Security > Clear Clipboard, otherwise that password would remain in the clipboard until you next copy something else.
Does that help at all @safety1?
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Very Helpful. It would be interesting to know what others do. I guess it is a matter of what you really want 1P for. For me i want more security, so I need to decide which accounts to put the most difficult passwords on (the ones i will never remember). It seems like a step in the right direction. Thanks
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@safety1 - You wondered what other users do about apps that don't commincate with 1Password. I can report that I do exactly what @littlebobbytables recommended to you. For Fidelity, I would want as strong a password as I could muster, so that process is preferable to anything else I know of.
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Agreed, and I can forgo even using the fidelity App and go right to 1P and use that browser. Same for Bank accounts. Other non-financial Apps that 1P doesn't have yet, netflix, yelp etc I feel comfortable using the Apple store App. I found a way to Quicken in a secure fashion and will post that in the discussion i already opened in another thread.
What about securing Mac mail or AOL mail account with better password? Would just add a secure note with the passwords?0 -
@safety1 I make regular logins for all my stuff. I should use the email categories for my email, but I will change that in time. I like using the login stuff because you can have you password concealed easily, and in the secured notes, you can't. Using the logins category is to me, that category can be used for anything. You can add whatever you wanted, or not.
For apps on my phone, I just copy and paste the info. For me, those few extra seconds more to take to login is worth the security. For most apps, like Netflix, the password will save in the app itself.
Hope that helps
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@prime I did turn all of my items relating to email into proper Email Account items but then realised that any webmail based ones are much better left as Login items. I keep a Gmail template in Email Accounts that holds all the general IMAP related information but they're just a lot more functional as Login items. Now if it's an IMAP only account then I dump it in there.
Like prime I don't tend to keep passwords in Secure Notes @safety1 not when you can create a different kind of item with custom fields if required. The benefit of the other types is fields have a copy button for easy copy and paste.
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Thanks, that is helpful. I'm not as advanced with some of the terms but I'll figure it out when I purchase 1P for Mac. Unfortunately I will need to from MAS and not get a trial period. I assume in order to get the these features I will also need to go Pro on the iOS.
Prime, I don't understand why it is important to differentiate between login stuff and secured notes. Even if you can conceal the password, if someone gets into the 1P they can "unconcealed" them? What am I missing?0 -
I don't understand why it is important to differentiate between login stuff and secured notes.
The key point is that you can use Login items in 1P to log you in to websites. If you save your passwords in secure notes you can't do that (links in secure notes just don't work in the same way as links in Login items). To get a better idea of what I'm talking about take a look at this knowledge base article (look towards the bottom of the article for links showing how to log in using Safari, how to log in to apps and how to log in using the in-built browser in 1P).
Stephen
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Thank you that is what I thought. Maybe I misunderstood, it sounded like there was another benefit of just having the password concealed in the login items. I understand the utility in login items and the functionality.
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If you have any more questions do please ask :smile:
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