I haven’t received this update yet, but it sounds like they no longer understand what business they’re in.

I wish in addition to WatchTower they had a way to identify sites that no longer exist. I want to clean things up before I migrate—delete logins for dead companies, delete accounts on sites I no longer use, etc. Some tools to help with that would be much more useful than the new features they actually added. These are tools I’ve wanted/needed for a long time now. I have over 300 logins in 1Password, and that’s after I’ve already done a few manual efforts to cleanup in the past (277 items already archived).

This might be where they could actually add AI in a useful way, instead of item naming. Ping the URLs periodically to see if they are still alive. If they’re dead, have the AI do a little research to see if the site is just down or the company went under… and maybe try to find out if there is any information on how the data was handled upon company closure. For dead sites, consolidate all that information into a section of the app for vault pruning and maintenance. Make it easy to archive all this old stuff and feel good about it. In addition to this, surface how to delete account data on each site I have a login for. There are websites for this, why doesn’t 1Password pull that type of information in to make cleanup easy. Deleting an account that is no longer needed is safer than rotating the password periodically or when I had been breached and shows in WatchTower. These sites store more than just password data that gets taken, deletion is always better.

Maybe they don’t care, because few accounts are as old as mine, but these are the types of things I’d expect from a tool for power users vs all the free options out there. There is a lot of competition in this space now, and if they don’t want to be old-reliable, they could at least be useful.