Goodbye and Good Riddance to 1Password!
Freedom! That feeling I got when we cut the cord over, what? A Decade ago? No more cable or satellite subscriptions. Paying for shit that I didn’t need.
I recall one year DirecTV offered me some NFL ticket for free as part of my package. I politely refused. I don’t watch sports. “But sir, that’s a $400 a year value!” Not to me. How about fuck your football and just comp me the $400? No? Didn’t think so. Must not really be worth $400 then, eh?
I’ve felt the same way with 1Password for a long time now. Ever since they switched over to a subscription model. But I was trapped! I had all my passwords in there, and the included password keeper that came with my iPhone or iPad just wasn’t snazzy enough to meet my minimal needs – passwords and notes.
Until now. Before i/iPadOS 18 the built in password app was part of a device setting. Now it is its own full fledged application, icon and all. And it has everything I need. I saw it on the horizon; knew it was coming. In preparation, I cancelled my 1Password subscription back in July and made sure all the passwords I needed, as I used them, were entered into the system password settings app.
If 1Password only had kept the buy once per major numerical version, they’d still have me. As it is, I’m super-stoked with the new Passwords app on my iPhone.