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Former Member
2 years ago

TOUCH ID - anyone else finding the 1PW Mac implementation arcane and inconsistent?

I have TouchID on my MB Air. Ideally, when I go to a web page which has a corresponding 1PW entry, I would touch the TouchID button, and 1PW would popup the password or field data, or a choice thereo...
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1P_Dave
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2 years ago

@persona

Thank you for the reply. I'll respond below:

This necessitates either password entry or manually clicking on the fingerprint icon, then touching the TouchID button on the Mac. My assertion is that touching the TouchID button should automatically force access to 1PW.

Thanks for the screenshot. 1Password itself doesn't scan or have access to your fingerprint, when you click on the fingerprint icon the 1Password app will trigger the macOS Touch ID feature. macOS will then show the Touch ID prompt:

I'm not sure if apps can ask macOS to trigger the Touch ID feature without showing this prompt but I've filed a request with our development team to have them look into this further.

I have just tried to change the Auto-lock setting, but this is disabled. Any ideas why?

If 1Password for Mac is locked then Security settings can't be changed. Unlock 1Password first, then try changing your auto-lock settings. Let me know if that doesn't work. 🙂

-Dave

ref: dev/core/core#11000