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9AmberMoog
New Contributor
2 years ago

MAC OS and Rich Icons? What are best practices? How can I turn them off?

I was under the impression it was better on a Mac OS to not have Rich Icons. I notice on my Mac that Rich Icons are now populating - previously I had them turned off, but can no longer find out how t...
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9AmberMoog
New Contributor
2 years ago

RICH ICON ISSUE:

*You wrote: "That doesn't sound right, the setting doesn't sync between devices so turning it off on one device shouldn't affect the other. If you toggle the "Show app and website icons" setting on your iPhone again then do you see the setting change in 1Password on your Mac?"
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ANSWER: This is an upshot of what occurred from the beginning for context:

  1. Rich Icons were turned off when I first downloaded 1P and have been off ever since
  2. Recently I noticed some icons were now rich icons and that surprised me.
  3. Thinking that something had changed, I searched for how to turn rich icons off again and couldn’t located it in the settings area - this was a user error - for whatever reason I missed the setting.
  4. I wrote to 1P and you gave me the directions, which I also misread as to the 1P Vault (iMac) however I was logged into 1P at the same time as on my iPhone and when I toggled off the Rich Icons on iPhone (which I don’t use normally), I noticed that the rich icons on the iMac 1P Vault also changed from Rich to generic. That surprised me.
  5. Per your most recent suggestion, I went to my 1P Vault on the iMac found my way though from Profile / Settings / Privacy and saw that "Show app and website icons" was toggled off. (This was never changed from when I first set it up)
  6. You suggested I toggled the "Show app and website icons" setting on my iPhone again as the making this change in the iPhone 1P App is not suppose to affect other devices. I did this and the result was SOME of the iMac 1P Vault icons changed to rich icons. I toggled the switch again on the iPhone and the icons returned to generic icons both on my iPhone 1P App and on the iMac 1P Vault. AGAIN, I tried toggling the "Show app and website icons" setting on my iPhone a 2nd time and the iMac 1P Vault was not affected.
  7. I took pictures but the answer is the some of the generic icons on my iMac 1P Vault did change to rich icons when I toggled the “Show app and website icons” setting. I did not reproduce that a second time. I hope that is clear and helpful.

**You wrote: " Can you also clarify what you mean when you say that "I was not able to turn off the Rich Icons on the iMac 1P vault"? Did you try the steps that I listed earlier?"

ANSWER: This was user error - I didn't see / misread your instructions - which were very clear for the iMac 1P Vault. I did change the setting in my iPhone 1P App (which I really don't use very frequently). My apologies.

1P VAULT on iMac vs 1P SAFARI EXTENSION

You wrote: "By "1P Vault" do you mean the desktop app? If you do then I would also recommend installing 1Password in the browser. Copying and pasting isn't as secure as using 1Password in the browser to fill your logins since copying credentials puts them into your Mac's system clipboard, and many different applications have access to the clipboard."

ANSWER: Yes, by 1P Vault, I mean the iMac 1P App. Thank you for the additional info. I've been able to install and set it up.