It’s great that you’ve enabled 2FA on any site that has it. If you’re NOT able to export the 2FA to another password manager, then you’ll need to go to each site and disable and then re-enable the 2FA to transfer to the new password manager or authenticator.
Thanks all of you, @OogieM and others I value your opinions but I settled on 1Password. All of you who replied are voices I heed. Frankly even for a Poweruser the whole thing is overwhelming at times. I still have rookie fears of being ‘locked out’ because I don’t fully understand how these things work. Something not mentioned in the recent show on this, the show in fact just made me more nervous on that score.
I have to say I am pretty mad at the time I have wasted struggling with LastPass despite the breeches and so on.
To date 1Password is really great, imported everything without a glitch and, to date, every site has worked.
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There’s is a popular saying that “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM” that I think today could be applied to 1Password. Nothing is perfect but the easiest and most reliable path for most people is to pay for the value and peace of mind that 1Password clearly provides.
That said, the Strongbox password app fits my needs and is what I continue to use. 
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I have noted that and add your vote, I will investigate in due course. LastPass help desk are still sending me barely intelligible emails. I believe there is some major issue.
I am not “voting” for or recommending anyone get the Strongbox password app. Sorry, I was not clear. We all differ from each other in our backgrounds and needs. While I find Strongbox to be suitable for me, others might appreciate a more mainstream solution. My guess is that 1Password is an entirely suitable choice for many if not most Mac users. I would not second guess your decision, if I were you.
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I wasn’t clear either, I meant I take what you say seriously. For the time being it looks like 1Password for me. I, like so many of us, can spend waaay too much time on ‘IT’ rather than… 
I was with LastPass since 2013 would you believe.
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Glad you settled on 1Password! I’ve been using it since 2019 and can’t imagine life without it. There are just too many great features to list.
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Regarding Strongbox or Keepass, is it possible to store an encrypted vault on a usb stick? If only storing a handful of passwords that you don’t want in the cloud, I was wondering if rotating 2 sticks is possible? I believe it was possible back in earlier versions of 1Password.
For sure! In Strongbox (or Keepass for that matter) the “vault” is just a regular encrypted file with .kdbx extension. You should be able to store it in a USB stick.
A week or so now, I am very pleased and wish I had taken advice here months ago. There is no comparison regarding performance and ease of use on Mac. I have’nt’ put it on my iPhone yet. I don’t log into much there though.
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1Password is life-changing on an iPhone with face recognition!
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I’ve been reviewing my current slate of subscriptions and have been thinking about switching away from 1Password. The app/integration seems to bug out on my MacBook Pro in Safari more often than I’d like, where authenticating my TouchID just doesn’t do anything. It works mostly fine on my iOS devices, but I notice similar hiccups now and then too.
I’m considering Bitwarden which is $10/year vs $36/year. Has anyone who used it know if 2FA codes get auto entered or auto copied like how 1Password does it?
I suppose there is also the new Apple Passwords manager which I understand can do passwords and 2FA as well. My only reservation about using this is if Apple decides to limit access to my account for whatever reason I would be completely screwed. I hear horror stories about Google cutting off peoples Gmail accounts and so forth for random or no reason at all.
I’ve occasionally had a problem with 1PW on Safari for Mac after clearing my browser cache and the solution is to quit then re-open safari.
I’ve had no problems with 1PW on Chromium browsers.
Are chromium browsers at energy efficiency/battery life parity with safari nowadays?
I’ve been very happy with Bitwarden. I prefer to use a separate 2FA app to maximize security, but folks in the Bitwarden subreddit who use the feature seem to like it.
I read that Google made some changes a while back that some say has improved its efficiency. But I seldom run my Mac on battery so it’s never been an issue.
The main difference between Safari and Chrome for me is compatibility. Safari for Mac just doesn’t work properly on some websites and I have to use Chrome. Safari on iPadOS seems to have better results on some of these.
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I’ve used 1Password for years, but I’ve now switched to using Apple Passwords. I still have an annual subscription to 1Password for the next six months, so it’s active if I find a password missing in Keychain.
So far, so good. It performs precisely as 1Password did. There’s nothing I miss from 1Password. I moved some stuff I kept in 1Password into locked Apple Notes—no big deal. I don’t need 1Password to store those items.
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I switched when they broke their promises. I was there from the beginning but they changed in recent years. First they introduced subs and then they got rid of local vaults. They deleted critical posts in their forums and with version 8 they switched to electron as a wrapper for their former native Mac apps.
I was very disappointed and just couldn’t trust them with my passwords anymore.
A small developer team became a big company with more than 500 employees and big investors and those investors want to see growth and revenue. This is IMHO their main reason for switching to subs and Electron.
Electron is cheaper to maintain, it emulates cross-plattform and subs gives them a ton of money.
People always argue that devs need subs to survive but I think this is our time’s fairytale. Look at the gaming industry, there are no subs (besides MMOs) although games have massive data transfers, games need a lot of development time and are much more complex than a password manager. What password manager needs 500+ employees? It’s just blown up.
I switched to Bitwarden and then to Apple Passwords. And I save my notes and software keys in Apple Notes. It does the same, as you say, and it works better. I had so many problems with 1Password helper and extensions and all. Apple Password does what Apple does: it just works.
Back in 2018 reports that Apple had purchased an enterprise license for 1Password and rolled it out to all of their employees led to rumors of a possible acquisition, which was later dismissed. I wonder if Apple still provides this benefit?
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I can imagine that Apple is still giving out 1Password licenses.
Big companies give their people all kind of goodies and 1Password itself isn’t bad. It works and it looks nice.
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