In my case, I’ve used LastPass and 1Password’s password generators to replace all my passwords with long cryptic ones, and reading those on the Apple Watch’s small screen can be challenging, so I appreciate how 1Password helps make these more legible by displaying upper/lower-case, numbers and special characters in different colors. But this still can be useful for keeping important information handy, in case you should need to log in to an account from an unfamiliar computer, for example. But all this takes a few extra steps.Īt the start, I was hoping that I would be able to use my Apple Watch to control 1Password and LastPass on my iPhone, and I was a little disappointed to see that both apps limit you to only viewing your saved logins, profiles, and notes. LastPass also lets you search your vault using your voice, which I’ve found works relatively well. Luckily, LastPass provides a bit of help: Rather than mixing logins, notes, and profiles into a single list as 1Password does, LastPass segregates them into separate views. But since LastPass makes your entire database available on the Apple Watch, those items can be a little slow to appear, and scrolling can take awhile. If you’ve carefully tagged only a few important 1Password records, then finding any of them on the Watch is a quick and easy task. In both apps, you can scroll through your vault using the Digital Crown. In either case, no data is being stored permanently on the Watch: Your Watch and iPhone must be paired and in communication for your password data to be available on the Apple Watch.Įnable 1Password (left) and LastPass (right) to work with your Watch.
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Both apps give you the option of further securing your data with a 4-digit PIN code that you enter occasionally when accessing their Watch apps, but they take a slightly different approach in the way they let you access their password databases stored on your iPhone-LastPass for Apple Watch gives you access to your entire iOS password vault, while 1Password requires that you specially tag items in the iOS app before they will appear on the Watch. You can enable these apps for the Watch from within their respective iOS app settings or from the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. Getting started with LastPass or 1Password on your watch is a cinch, once you have your account set up. We’ve come to trust how these apps work across our Macs and iOS devices, but how do they stack up on the Watch, given that we don’t actually need to use our account passwords on the Watch that often (if ever)? Let’s take a look.
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