Today, 1Password developer AgileBits announced that their popular iOS password management app, 1Password, has been updated to the Apple Watch. But 1Password could even be cooler in the updates that follow.
1Password for both OS X and iOS are already fantastic at automatically detecting the site you’re trying to log into, and populating it with your name and password. Predictably, the Apple Watch version is going to do the same thing, but on your wrist. Here’s a description of how 1Password for Apple Watch will work, from AgileBits’ blog post:
After a couple months of diligently attending the gym, you’ve earned a coveted private locker. Of course, remembering your locker combination is probably not a priority when you’re counting reps. But if you store that combination in 1Password, it only takes a couple of taps for you to see the combination in 1Password for Apple Watch when you’re back at your locker.
That’s pretty cool, but over at Gizmodo, Sean Hallister suggests a way this functionality could even be cooler:
Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could just walk up to your locker, glance at your wrist, and see the right combination appear on your smartwatch screen? Particularly if you multiply that by every lock and password you encounter over the course of a day?
Hallister then proposes that such an app could protect your passwords with your heartbeat.
Sadly, developer access to the Apple Watch’s heart rate monitor is still forbidden, and as for geofencing, my guess is that 1Password will have to wait until they actually get their hands on an Apple Watch to figure out how to make that possible. But this app update still seems like it could be the first small baby step to 1Password coming to the real world near you.
Source: Agile Blog
