Problem/suggestion with changing passwords
A medical site I visited demanded I change my password. Not trusting 1Password to log the change automatically, i opened the app to generate a new password. In edit mode, the new password is showing as a line of dots and is shown as actual text below that. But you can’t edit the field shown as text, and tapping in the field shown as dots does not reveal the letters. So to make changes to the generated pw, say to insert a capital letter or two or to add a few digits of non-text characters, you’re trying to guess which dots correspond to which letters – not an easy task! The job of changing passwords has really been made more difficult through this interface decision.
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OS Version: iOS 11.3
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@Cybernettr: Unfortunately it's not our decision to make. Password fields on iOS are always obscured. Arguably that's not really much of a security feature, but password fields also use Secure Input, which is important because it keeps the contents of the field secure by preventing other apps from accessing it. But we also offer the option to have 1Password reveal the password above the secure field when generating, for just the sort of situation you're talking about:
It isn't a perfect solution, but it's the one that's available to us currently on iOS. Perhaps we'll be able to do something more in the future.
ref: apple-546
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