1Password for Mac gets support for Touch Bar & Touch ID on new MacBook Pros
AgileBits has updated its flagship password management app for the Mac, 1Password, with support for the Touch ID and Touch Bar features on 2016 MacBook Pros.
Touch ID must be enabled from 1Password's Security Preferences menu, but will then let people unlock the app with a quick fingerprint scan. Touch Bar support should make it easier to run searches, add new items, and switch between vaults as well as lock them down.
The first MacBook Pro shipments have yet to arrive, but 1Password is part of the first wave of Mac apps with Touch Bar compatibility to be approved by Apple.
1Password has also been upgraded with a new first-run experience, designed to be simpler whether people are signing into an existing account or opening a new one. It should also be easier to search through vaults using third-party apps, one of the first apps updated for this being Alfred.
1Password for the Mac costs $64.99, and requires OS X 10.10 or better.
Touch ID must be enabled from 1Password's Security Preferences menu, but will then let people unlock the app with a quick fingerprint scan. Touch Bar support should make it easier to run searches, add new items, and switch between vaults as well as lock them down.
The first MacBook Pro shipments have yet to arrive, but 1Password is part of the first wave of Mac apps with Touch Bar compatibility to be approved by Apple.
1Password has also been upgraded with a new first-run experience, designed to be simpler whether people are signing into an existing account or opening a new one. It should also be easier to search through vaults using third-party apps, one of the first apps updated for this being Alfred.
1Password for the Mac costs $64.99, and requires OS X 10.10 or better.
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Maybe in a year from now, if we're lucky.
I've been saying in other threads that the Touch Bar seems like an awesome addition to have and use on OS X devices, and I'd buy a Touch Bar Apple Keyboard in a nanosecond if they released one, but I think that it's more like Apple to keep it as a MacBook Pro exclusive, at least for the time being.
Not everybody needs a new MacBook Pro or has plans to buy one in the near future, but tons of people have other OS X devices that they use, and a Touch Bar Apple Keyboard would be an extremely popular item, if they decide to make one.
Again, please prove me wrong Apple, and release one soon. They would sell a gazillion of them.
I'd love to see Apple release a brand new limited edition orange key Touch Bar keyboard! Woah! I'd be all over that one!
That is of course never going to happen, unfortunately, so I agree with you, and I would be content with seeing black keys on the next Apple Keyboard.
Enough with the white already! I'm tired of it.
Time for the complete opposite next time, bring back the black keys.
Some of my older Mac keyboards have dark and black keys, and I wouldn't mind my next Apple keyboard having black keys again.
The keyboard will likely need to be heavier, thicker, and cost considerably more to power the display and T1 chip running in a keyboard. The only other issue would be latinency of having a wireless display that you would want to drag and drop things into or use immediately upon switching apps. Can BT do that? I think that might take the 802.11 protocol, which also uses more power than the current BT keyboard and therefore would need a larger battery, which would increase the weight, size, and cost.
Not everything needs to be super thin. I'm glad that iPhones and iPads are super thin, but a keyboard that is going to sit on my desk? Not a problem at all.
Make it heavier if you need to. Put a larger battery in it, if needed. I'm ok with that.
And I'm also ok if it's going to cost more than the previous version, that's to be expected. I imagine that it would cost quite a bit more than the current keyboard, maybe triple the price.
I can't stand latency at all.
I'd rather have a wired version with near zero latency instead of a wireless version, if latency is a problem. It's going to be on my desk, so I don't care about a wire at all. I want the best performance and the lowest latency.
I thnk we'll see it when Apple figures out how to wirelessly power the keyboard and mouse from the Mac.
Now, if only the bloody thing would ship...
por que?
If it's only 2 out of 3 of the late 2016 MacBook Pros that support it ... will Apple have much of a Touch Bar user base? If they release an Apple Keyboard with Touch Bar support, it can be taken up a lot more widely, generating more interest.