1Password is making it easier to find passwords based on your location

1Password is now offering a feature that recommends passwords once you are near a certain location. Since 1Password also includes support for health cards or travel documents, this ensures that only relevant entries appear upon launching the app.

1Password introduced a new feature today that will make it easier to find the login, password, or access code you’re looking for, based on where you’re using the app. It will now let you add a specific physical location to items, and they’ll automatically appear in the new Nearby section of the app’s home tab, depending on how close you are to that spot.

Here is their supposed promise for user privacy:

AgileBits, 1Password’s developer, says that “your location data is never stored, shared, or tracked,” and the 1Password app does its checks for nearby items locally so your current location never leaves your device. The company also added an additional layer of security around the loading of map data by giving users the option to turn off this feature entirely at any time.

To be honest, I don’t see much utility in this feature. Most of passwords I use take place at home or in an office/cafe setting anyways. This seems to be a rather niche benefit for those using 1Password to keep important documents.

What do you think?

Yeah completely useless imo not to mention the fact that my password manager simply doesn’t need to know my live location.

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I agree with you fully. But that’s literally what 1Password is trying to rationalize with this.

I’m sorry, but I think this is silly of them.

I think it would be a great feature if we didn’t have auto fill…

I can think of one useful situation, but I personally wouldn’t want to use it even in this case. I often have to log in to different computers across my work, and I could see it being useful if when I opened 1password on my phone, it knew to surface the password I keep using whenever I got to that room… but it only takes 2 seconds to search for it in the app, or even less time to favorite it. Not worth it for me to give my location for the saved 2 seconds, but maybe if someone was consistently having to move all over their workplace and login to different things where 1password wasn’t installed and they had to use different passwords?

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