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Safari extension issues upon restarting device
When the Safari extension is unlocked, it does not lock itself upon restarting the device. Additionally, if it is locked (and the device is restarted), it allows biometrics to be used to unlock it ev...
1P_Ben
1Password Team
1Password TeamUnless two weeks have passed since the master password has been entered, correct?
That would be one reason for Face ID to expire, yes.
This seems... counterintuitive, to be honest. It seems like it just undermines the deliberate security decisions relating to biometrics for the iOS app, since a malicious party can completely skip the app and go straight for the Safari extension with biometrics. Why was this chioce made?
We really wanted to have the extension and app lock and unlock together on iOS, like is possible with our desktop apps ("shared lock state"). Unfortunately we ran up against some technical hurdles that we couldn't overcome. Hopefully it'll be possible to revisit that after further improvements are made. Web Extensions on iOS are still a very new technology.
Ben
