Getting a divorce... question on whether my wife will see my new passwords...

uw4rD9c
uw4rD9c
Community Member
in iOS

I have 1Password installed on my Mac. I have the app installed on my iPhone as well as my wife's iPhone, and I've been using the Wi-Fi sync service. I've never synced with iCloud or Dropbox. I never installed 1Password onto her personal Mac.

My wife has moved to a different state. Until the divorce is final and we have separated all of our accounts, I would like her to be able to use 1Password on her iPhone to access bank passwords, life insurance passwords, etc. But in the meantime, on 1Password on my Mac, I have changed my personal email passwords, Dropbox password, etc... things I don't want her having access to.

My questions:
1) Am I correct in assuming that these changes I have made to 1Password on my Mac are not being updated and changed on her iPhone? In other words, will her iOS app will show a "snapshot" of what 1Password on my Mac looked like the last time I synced it with her phone?

2) If I travel to her place to see the kids, and I open my Mac and connect to the WiFi in her home, will 1Password automatically sync with her phone, thus undoing all the work I did to change my personal account passwords? Because as I make these changes on my Mac, and then I open my iOS app, the changes have automatically synced. I need to make sure that won't accidentally happen with hers.

Any clarification or advice on this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

1Password Version: 5.0
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: OS X 10.10.4
Sync Type: Wi-Fi

Comments

  • littlebobbytables
    littlebobbytables
    1Password Alumni

    Hello @uw4rD9c,

    Well I'm sorry for the reason you've visited us but hopefully we can at least help answer your questions.

    1. You are entirely correct. What your wife currently has is a snapshot of your vault from the last time the two were connected to the same network and synced. Any changes either of you make now will be held locally until your Mac and her iOS device were to sync again. Wi-Fi Sync is genuinely only local so no syncing at a distance.
    2. As it stands you are again correct, if your MacBook and her iOS device were on the same network and 1Password was active on both they would sync as they have a prior agreement to do so. What we can do is show you how to generate a new Wi-Fi Secret that would mean your copy of 1Password would refuse to sync with any iOS device with the old one.

    How to generate a new Wi-Fi Sync Secret.

    1. Launch 1Password for Mac and enter 1Password's preferences.
    2. Switch to the Wi-Fi Server tab and right click on the current secret, the sequence of characters in the grey box between the Vaults list the Wi-Fi Server checkbox.
    3. You will see a very small menu consisting of a single option titled Generate New Secret. Click to do exactly that.
    4. Confirm the request to generate a new secret.
    5. When you next launch 1Password for iOS it will display a warning about how it cannot sync and disable Wi-Fi Sync. If you follow the steps in Sync over Wi-Fi and alter the stored secret this will re-enable Wi-Fi Sync on your devices. This is how it will also look to your wife should your MacBook and her iOS device be attached to the same network. No new secret means no syncing.

    I hope that helps and once again, I'm sorry this is what brought you to the forums today.

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