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I've been a customer for 10 years (coincidentally, I checked email and I downloaded it from the iOS app store 10 years today) and very happy. The two things I'd love for them to fix are:

1/ Make the Windows version feel more like the macOS one. I switch between the two OS's all the time and it always feels jarring to open the Windows one after using the other.

2/ Add an option to cache everything locally. My phone has plenty of storage and there have been a few times where I have been with cell service or wifi and unable to pull down a document or credential I have stored there.

Mostly though I love it and can't imagine what life must have been like before password managers.

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Personally I like that macOS and Windows apps are different. Those are two different platforms, with their own design paradigms, human interface guidelines, etc. They should have different versions, tailored specifically for the OS they're running on. I don't like apps, usually Electron- or something like that-based, that are exactly the same on all platforms, because they feel out of place on all of them, IMHO.

Thats fine and all but there's some things the windows app just doesn't do or do well at all compared to mac. Searching is one of them, along with being able to use 1pass x with the desktop app for auth.

I'm just amazed that they have so many employees yet their window and browser apps are still really lacking.

Side nitpick: it's annoying that they're moving to 1Password X. I really don't want to run the desktop app AND an independent version in my browser. It's not as bad on mac since it can communicate with the desktop app to unlock, but on windows... ugh.

> I'm just amazed that they have so many employees yet their window and browser apps are still really lacking.

Well they're lacking an entire platform (Linux), so it's not even just about differences in polish.

I use the desktop app and browser companion extension on both Mac and Windows. AFAIK, it's not going anywhere, even though they are promoting 1PasswordX pretty heavily.

I know they're keeping it around but when you ask for a feature/bug report they push over to 1pass x, pretty defensively too.

Yep understood and I agree with most of that. It's been a gripe of mine for a while but I went back now and compared the two and the Windows one, IMHO, is much improved.

Certainly thankful in any case that there is a Windows version and I don't have to manually transcribe from my phone.

I'm pretty sure you can access all your passwords offline. So not sure what os/version you are using... but you might ask 1Password support about why that's not working for you.

I may have misspoken and been referring to secure attachments - I'll check. (This is on my iPhone).

I'm sure I've been in situations where I am trying to download a travel permit for example at a check in desk overseas and there is no signal.

I'll see if passwords are the same - maybe those are indeed kept locally.

Perhaps you are correct, I think the situation might be this:

1. Add a new 1Password item on device 1

2. Do _not_ open the 1Password app on device 2

3. At some point/the next day or whatever, device 2 goes offline

4. Now, while offline, you do not have access to the new item on device 2 because data wasn't synced because the 1Password app hasn't been opened after #1.

The problem seems, 1Password doesn't sync the data in the background (iCloud in my case.)

However, if you did sync by manually opening the app while online, all data will also be available offline later (including attachments.)

Interesting and sounds very plausible. Typically, for example, I'll add a travel doc for a trip on my desktop and then try to open it in a different location (often country) on my phone for the first time.

Maybe worth me submitting a feature request that facilitates making checked items available offline (like I think Dropbox/Google Docs iOS apps support).

I just saw this has been requested/discussed already on the 1Password forums:

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/108049/ios-iclo...

Looks hopeful - thanks for the heads up.

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