I am incredibly confused on why the search icon would be removed. It is so awkward to click on the search bar. Why I have to search is because autofill fails which is becoming increasingly common or app dev didn’t register a domain name with their app no there are no associations. There is more but regardless the ability to initiate and clear a search is basic functionality. I’d love to see the search icon brought back another option can be to make a user preference on what the double tap on items does, e.g. brings back to the items page or brings back to the items page and opens a search. This preference could be turned off by default. Please add this. 1Password Version: 8.10.52 Extension Version: Not Provided OS Version: iOS 18.1.1 Browser: Not Provided

Hey Dave, congrats! Nearly 3 years later and search is still difficult to use. Surprisingly it took nearly three years to listen to "overwhelming amount of feedback" and still can't solve the problem. No wonder the app has a 3.7 star rating.

Hi, I'm a beta user so I didn't know about this change ending up in the GA version. As soon as this had landed in the beta, I gave feedback stating my displeasure but it seems it was not enough. As screens tend to get bigger and bigger, it's harder to reach to the top of the screen to perform the search (at least for me). So here's my suggestion: leave the search bar at the top as it is now and let those people with longer fingers tap into it and search right away. But please also let me customize the bottom tab bar and allow me to add the search icon back. This icon's only purpose would be to put the focus into the search bar so it's easier to activate. Please :)

Hey 1P_Dave i was very clear because i knew it would be used as an excuse. If some users complained about search icon experience that’s fine, let them use the top bar. For everyone else make the bottom user configurable. If you do that everyone win. Thank for you answering my question, I’m incredibly disappointed to find out that instead of finding a solution to make both use cases work it was decided only make one work. It shows a complete lack of awareness and disconnect from the users. My very first comment on this discussion suggested this, now you have multiple suggesting it. I encourage 1P to listen to users who provide suggestions not just the people who complain about wha they don’t like.

I use an iPhone 15 Pro, so a typical screen size. Depending on what page you are on it is the same number of screen touches. e.g. if already on the items screen than 1st touch is reachability, 2nd touch is the search bar or x to clear. Anywhere else it is 3 screen touches. All of the current workflows are significantly more error prone because they require precise presses/gestures it also creates an awkward workflow. Where as before you could quickly double tab the search icon to achieve the same result and maintaining the same number of screen taps. Can you help me understand why this functionality was removed? Were users having a poor experience because they were double tapping when they didn’t mean to? Was the functionality somehow confusing? Could there not be another icon added? Was 4 icons really too many? Do users use watchtower more than search? Wouldn’t watchtower primarily used when a user signs up and goes through and changes all re-used or weak passwords? Than occasionally to see if a password was has been part of a data leak? Could both of those be part of the tutorials than optional notifications for data leaks? Or could watchtower be a tile on the Home Screen? Could the 3rd icon be a customized option? Default is watchtower? And search icon is another that is a user preference? When double pressed it highlights the current text in the search bar or if empty places the cursor there. I am all for streamlining an experience. I am also in disbelief that the previous experience with the search icon was so dysfunctional it had to be removed.

I agree with the comments above. I use search all the time, but Watchtower rarely. It’s so much easier to open search from the bottom of the screen. That of course is where the keyboard is located. And Apple notably moved their search bar to the bottom of Safari a few years ago.

Add the Search Icon or add a shortcut.

birchmeier
Occasional Contributor
19 days ago
1P_Davecan we have a double tap on the items icon place the cursor on the search bar and highlight any existing text? This would effectively solve the issue and wouldn’t require adding in the search icon.
birchmeier
Occasional Contributor
2 months ago
Manaburner as a terrible work around you can reinstall to make it come back and than just never close the app
birchmeier
Occasional Contributor
2 months ago
Oh you’re right, same thing happened after opening and closing.

1P_Dave can we just add the search icon back as a user option that can be turn on or off with the default is off? This way the “negative” experience 1P said people had would be user’s choice. Everyone wins in situation, even 1P, you/the company would gain loyal customers because feedback was actually implemented.
birchmeier
Occasional Contributor
2 months ago
8.10.58
Manaburner
Regular Contributor
2 months ago
birchmeier Which App Version are you using? I don’t see a search icon in beta 1Password for iOS 8.10.60 (81060004)
insecuretoffee
Occasional Contributor
2 months ago
You got my hopes up birchmeier but it's just more buggy software. It showed up once and when you re-open it disappears again. I am on version 8.10.58.

On the plus side, double pressing Home, Items or Watchtower _still _ doesn't open Search, as in your original suggestion.
birchmeier
Occasional Contributor
2 months ago
Search Icon is back on iOS mobile app, thank you for listening to our feedback. This is renewing my faith in sharing feedback.
birchmeier
Occasional Contributor
2 months ago
It’s funny, I made the post here https://1password.community/discussion/136282/feature-request-clear-search-field-with-double-tap-of-icon and a few months later the feature was implemented and for the first time even I thought I can’t believe a company listened and made a change. 1P earned my respect and love. My have the mighty have fallen. I hard core pushed everyone I knew to 1P, even the company I worked for. For your sake let’s hope a better platform doesn’t come because I’ll be open to it. I changed to 1P I can change away from it.
JSON000
Occasional Contributor
2 months ago
Ahh so according to that blog post Manaburner linked to they also said this on the search bar change: "This also aligns with where the search bar is located on other devices, creating a more consistent experience." So basically, they've decided to just use the same codebase as android or do they mean tablets? Is consistency really a goal when the end product is a consistently worse user experience?

Either way, it's clear 1p are no longer focused on making their product the best it can be in favor of making it as average as possible. So sad to see the leaders in UI/UX/Security in the password management space go the same [removed] route as most other companies. For the longest while, this was the one app I didn't have to look for alternatives for.. It's always worked efficiently while staying out my way. The need to make everything worse for current users to entice new ones is a losing move seen time and time again.

Make good app.

Get popular.

Influx of money.

Internally, start to listen to business people instead of creatives.

Externally, start to listen to complaints of basic users about things they have no clue on. (most users literally never look at even settings)

Quality of everything goes down as they listen to the above groups. (shared codebases, cheaper/less features, etc..)

Alienate power users/people who actually advocate for your app in favor of attracting new users.

Congrats, you've made it: [removed]

???

Actual fans/users of 1p leave?

It's actually insane to me how in 2024/25, we're reverting to old design when phones are literally so massive, they can't be used with one hand. There aren't really any new small phones purchaseable anymore. And yet, 1Password has now designed this as if everyone has an iphone 4, or with the expectation that everyone has pop sockets?! Or does 1p think everyone holds their phone with one hand now and pecks/types with the second hand index finger?!

To add insult to injury, the revert back is half baked. There are plenty of ways to implement both or even MORE customizability if 1Password really wanted happy users. And as said above, the search bar at the top isn't even universal or shared history?! So now I can have three different searches (well two, watchtower does crash every time) going on each tab with no way of telling which one I was on or need to be on to find my item?! I'm gonna take a page out from the 3 year old complaints play book and make this as overwhelming as possible. 1Passwords "new" change back to the old search bar is objectively worse and is harder to use.

I'm honestly so perplexed to know why this was done at all, let alone THREE years later. 1Password must have had a good reason to ADD the search tab back in the day. What possibly could have changed in UX/UI to make 1Password re-think THAT decision. I die inside thinking 1Password is CHOOSING to ship an inferior product to appease old complaints. Or is this some new design philosophy that has decided peak mobile design was in 2018?! In the age of AI everything no less.

If you listen and take all complaints to heart, the product will inevitably become average.

1Password are the ones who intentionally chose to add the search tab. Does 1Password ACTUALLY believe now in 2025 that this change is better?! Or is 1Password just listening to users who instinctively panic at change because most people have no idea what they want until you give it to them. Were people still complaining all the way up until 1Password reverted the change?! I find that hard to believe 3 years after the fact.

Now that literally every app is shipping AI this with AI that where search is the first thing open, 1Password have decided to swear off search altogether as it's "too hard to use without a top bar" to have it's 2018 design back. What a joke.

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1P_Dave
Moderator
2 months ago
insecuretoffee

Thanks again for the feedback, I've shared it with the team.

Search in Watchtower, even as “designed”, still does not work and straight-up crashes the app lol

I'm sorry that 1Password crashed on your iOS device. The team was able to reproduce similar behaviour when searching using the Watchtower page in 1Password for iOS back in December a few times but we haven't been able to reproduce the issue recently. If you can still reproduce the issue using iOS 18.2 and 1Password for iOS 8.10.56 then I'd like to ask you to create a diagnostics report from your iOS device:

Sending Diagnostics Reports (iOS)

Attach the diagnostics to an email message addressed to support+forum@1password.com.

With your email please include:

A link to this thread: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/723577/#Comment_723577

Your forum username: insecuretoffee

Please do not post your diagnostic report to the forum. This is for your privacy and security.

Please send the entire file.

You should receive an automated reply from our BitBot assistant with a Support ID number. Please post that number here. Thanks very much!

-Dave

ref: PB-45599492
ref: dev/core/core#34597