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Former Member
2 years agoTOUCH 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...
DollarbillW
2 years agoNew Contributor
I am a week into having a Mac with Touch ID and still getting used to it. My wife and I each have an individual login for the Mac and share the 1PW account. We also utilize the Fast User Switching feature on the Mac to switch between users. We avoid logging out from our user accounts to prevent having to reenter the Mac password to reenable the Touch ID feature. Instead, we utilize the Sleep option.
The Mac logins in consistently with Touch ID, and the 1PW login also works consistently with Touch ID when launching 1PW either from the Dock or from the 1PW icon in menu bar (configured to Show Main Window).
When using Fast User Switching, everything seems to be consistent if we Quit 1PW before switching users. I have been able to repeatedly switch back in forth from User 1 to User 2 and launch 1PW and each time will get a login screen that includes the red fingerprint icon and allowing Touch ID to work.
However, if we don’t quit 1PW before Fast User Switching, it will work correctly on the first attempt, but subsequent attempts will result in a login window with a blue fingerprint icon. It is then necessary to click on the blue fingerprint icon to get to the login window with the red fingerprint icon, which will allow logging in with Touch ID.
It would be ideal to be able to utilize the Fast User Switching feature without having to remember to quit 1PW first, which would allow for a more consistent Touch ID login to 1PW.