Add the Search Icon or add a shortcut.

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.

1. Make good app.
2. Get popular.
3. Influx of money.
4. Internally, start to listen to business people instead of creatives.
5. Externally, start to listen to complaints of basic users about things they have no clue on. (most users literally never look at even settings)
6. Quality of everything goes down as they listen to the above groups. (shared codebases, cheaper/less features, etc..)
7. Alienate power users/people who actually advocate for your app in favor of attracting new users.
8. Congrats, you've made it: [removed]
9. ???
10. 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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