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by artdigital 875 days ago
Way overdue feature IMHO. A reason why I didn’t want to use passcodes or keychain for passwords was that once someone knew my passcode to unlock my phone, they could access all my accounts

1Password at least uses a different password and isn’t unlockable with passcode alone

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Nitpicking here. Older 1Password versions do allow unlocking using the iOS passcode if biometry fails, but I’m not sure it was ever intended as a feature. It isn’t a UI that is built into 1Password though, it’s the iOS fallback UI for that scenario (which looks very similar to the SIM PIN unlock screen).

A _lot_ of apps did and still do fall back to iOS passcode authentication when biometry fails. It does seem like more developers are disabling this, however.