Confusion with Generated Passwords

jaydisc

On the Mac, my workflow for signing up to a new site is invoking the Safari Extension, going to Generate Passwords, copying the offered random password, and choosing Fill. Then, if the site automatically logs me in after that, I log back out, and when I log back in (pasting that password from my clipboard), [i]that's[/i] when I have the 1P extension save the Login. So, with each new site, I have two new entries, one in Generated Passwords and another in Logins.



On iOS (specifically iPhone for me), this seems a bit different. If I'm in another app, and need to use 1P to generate me a password, I could not seem to find the ability to just create a new Generated Password. Rather, I had to create a (website?) Login, and the generator seems built into that. In the end, the result is now just one 1P Login, which has a Generated Password attached.



Am I correct in understanding both workflows? Is that the recommended methodology?

MikeT

Hi Jay,



Yes, that's accurate for now. We do plan to simplify it further in the future as we have a lot of stuff planned in that area.



In the past, 1Password 3 for iOS would let you generate a password and store it as a "Generated Password item". We're hearing from people here that they want the same thing in 1Password 4, where you just go to the Generated Password category, add a new item in there to just store the password. We're listening and might do that.



In the current 1Password 4 world, accounts for apps are considered the same as Logins, so creating a new Login item in 1Password 4 for an app is accurate for now. Some users can embed a custom URL scheme into the website field to open the apps directly if they have such URL scheme like facebook://.



I hope that helps, please let me know if you have more questions about this.



Thanks!