January 30, 2024 -

Hey fellow 1Password Android users! 👋

I wanted to reach out to the community to gather some feedback on the current state of the 1Password app for Android. I personally took a break from using the app about 6 months ago due to a slew of bugs that were affecting my overall experience. Issues I had:

- Autofill
- Opening the app with the previous state
- Homepage wit redundant items
- Invisible menu

I'm curious to know how things have been for those who continued using the app. Have there been any significant improvements or updates that address the previous issues? How's the overall performance and stability now?

February 13, 2023 -

So, there are many posts on this topic but I finally decided to create another anyway after making quite some observations. This is going to be a bit long as I wanted to make it a little detailed. Screenshots are attached for reference.

Autofill on iOS is better than Android and I totally get why that is. Apple's native autofill is simply better than Google's half-baked native autofill framework which doesn't recognize username & password fields 70% of the time. I don't blame 1Password for this. And I can totally see that all password managers are equally struggling to make a reliable autofill system for their product/app.

Hence, I don't expect 1Password autofill to work flawlessly 100% of the time (at least that's tough unless Google does something about it). But I do expect 1Password 8 autofill to be better or at least at par with it's predecessor. I used 1Password 7 on Android for some days and the end experience feels better than 1Password 8.

Take my word with a pinch of salt as I'm not a professional android developer but at least from my observations, autofill works better when accessibility service permissions and display over other apps permissions are also supported by the password manager. What I mean by that is, 1Password 7 used the native autofill framework for supported apps. And login fields in apps/sites that the native autofill framework couldn't recognize, the accessibility service helps 1Password 7 detect login fields and then it would use display over other apps permissions to show an overlay (or use inline autofill if your keyboard supports it). This similar set of permissions can also be turned on for Bitwarden, which is why even their autofill experience on android is commendable.

1Password 7's Accessibility Service toggle Bitwarden using "Accessibility" & "Draw-over" to improve login form detection Bitwarden using it's "draw over" permissions to show a popup for apps that don't support native autofill framework

We know you are busy right now as there are many LastPass users migrating and also passkeys are coming. But can we expect a better implementation of autofill in the coming future that works at least 90% of the time? Something which is at least at par with 1Password 7 and Bitwarden? We don't need this feature to be prioritized, but we do want you to accept the fact that the autofill experience is indeed broken and improve it in future.

Also I do have a suggestion. Bitwarden provides an "Autofill" quick tile which means in cases when it doesn't recognize login fields, I don't need to minimize the app, then open Bitwarden and copy my username/password and go back to the app and paste it. Just swipe down and select the tile, it will display an overlay and I can copy my password and paste it into the app. It'd be great to see this in 1Password.

Bitwarden's quick-tiles are a better approach than having to open the app

Pheww, thanks for reading this long post! 💙

EDIT: Oops, forgot about one more thing. 1Password 7 shows a pop-up to save username/password if it detects that a password isn't saved or shows an update password prompt if it detects that password entered after a successful login doesn't match with the password stored in vault. Screenshots are attached. It's mentioned in Android Developer Documentation as well (https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/autofill-services#save).

Please bring this to 1Password 8 as well. We're excited for the future 💙

1Password 7 asking to save a login 1Password 7 asking to update a login

May 14, 2023 -

Hi all.

I am considering moving to 1password from Lastpass but apparently 1password sucks in Android. Considering my use case is solely for Android (specifically Android 11), is it worth moving to 1Password or should I look at other alternatives like Dashlane and Bitwarden (higher ratings than 1password)?

I liked the autofill and secure notes features of Lastpass; unfortunately it seems 1password's autofill does not work more often than not for Android.

Or would it be possible to just get the previous 1password version that was working fine for Android? Thanks

Addendum: is there a way to import lastpass data into 1password without the desktop app?