1Password 8 for Mac got here out of beta and into public release on Tuesday, bringing a extra trendy redesign and a lot of new options to the favored password supervisor. But there’s one factor in regards to the app that could be a game-changer for Mac customers: a brand new Universal Autofill function meaning you possibly can mechanically enter passwords into apps the identical as you possibly can in browser tabs.

Previously, like with most password managers, all the pieces was seamless sufficient within the browser: load the webpage, click on the icon, and it fills your password. But if you happen to’re in a local app, you must open your password supervisor, seek for the account, and replica and paste your data into the app. With Universal Autofill, which 1Password assigns to a world ⌘ keyboard shortcut, you possibly can open a brand new overlaid menu that can fill passwords in apps identical to you’d count on. (1Password 8 has been out for Windows for months however doesn’t have a function like Universal Autofill.) In my temporary testing, it really works nicely, and it’s impressively quick particularly if you happen to even have Touch ID turned on.

This new model has been a long-time coming. 1Password 8 has been in public beta for months — the corporate mentioned 40,000 individuals have been testing it — and the corporate has promised it could repair virtually all the pieces that ailed earlier variations: an odd Chrome memory bug, the app’s occasional slowness and complicated interface, all the pieces. I’ve been a kind of beta testers for the previous few months, and it’s in actual fact a massively higher expertise — fewer cases of 1Password taking ceaselessly to load or not loading in any respect, fewer memory-hog issues, and an interface that belongs on this decade.

But options like Universal Autofill are actually what make or break password managers. Because regardless that it’s an unequivocal, no-question, easy-choice good concept to make use of a password supervisor, most individuals don’t. Password managers are a ache! On iOS and Android, the place typing your lengthy hexadecimal password is a trouble, password managers are a straightforward win, and each OSes have performed an excellent job turning them right into a two-tap course of. On desktop, although, it’s each simpler to sort and extra annoying to hunt by your password supervisor. 1Password is making an attempt to unravel that and provide you with even fewer causes to not use it.

Universal Autofill can be a kind of options that 1Password might use for a lot of extra issues. The service has been branching out from “password manager” to “important-info-of-all-kinds manager” that additionally shops your crypto wallets, hides your e-mail, and extra. A function like Universal Autofill might prepare customers to make use of 1Password extra and ultimately use it to retailer extra stuff.