Passwords give us a way to protect just about everything digital that we have on our devices. Be it online banking or Netflix account, passwords are only thing which makes sure that nobody else gets into your device and play the havoc.

Though bank accounts tend to be a bit more important as compared to Netflix queues, same rule applies: if there isn’t any strong password available, your accounts’ security can be compromised anytime.

However, many don’t really like to use passwords because it’s not easy to handle them. Secure passwords are always long, unique and complex. While some workarounds and strategies always exist, one simple thing that you need to understand is that remembering 50 different passwords for your different accounts is almost impossible. Above all, everyone wants to take shortcuts and same thing applies here as well.

People love to use most easy-to-remember passwords that are actually quite insecure. And another common mistake is that they keep the same password for all their online assets. As soon as somebody manages to break into your Netflix account, they also get access to your bank accounts as well.

So, the ultimate solution for this issue is to use some password manager and take everything out of your manual control. With a password management app right there on your device, you can set passwords that can be any random letters, symbols and numbers without any need of memorizing them all. All you have to do is to memorize the password to your password manager. And, the best password manager out there is 1Password.

So, let’s get into the details of how you can keep all your stuff secure on 1 Password.

1Password For Your iOS Device’s Security

Before the arrival of iOS 8, the app was good enough but offered quite limited capabilities. It did not integrate with different other applications and there wasn’t any support for it in Safari. For making full use of the app, inbuilt browser of the app was needed.

To be fortunate, the extensions added by Apple in iOS 8 allow 1Password to directly communicate with Safari as well as other applications. With this change, 1Password’s usefulness has been increased quite dramatically. Basic app is available for free to iOS users but if you want to make full use of the app, you’ll have to use its OS X version as well. Obviously, it’s pretty useless to generate secure passwords for your iPhone and then manually entering them on your Mac. So, if you want to implement your strategy for password management, you should implement it across the board.

In order to begin, download the app on your iOS device first. When launched for the first time on your device, you will be asked to create your password. You should make sure that you set a strong password that can be remembered easily as well. In fact, that’s the only thing that you have to remember and, therefore, you can afford it to be a bit more complex.

If you have TouchID support on your iOS device, you’ll be able to use that for logging into your 1Password account as well. It is often recommended because it lets you to go with an even complex password as there won’t be any need of using it too frequently.

If you are using Mac app already, all your stored passwords can be synced across. For this, you will have to go to Preferences using your Mac application and choose Sync. After that you can choose either Dropbox or iCloud as your sync service.

When it comes to iOS app, open Settings and choose the Sync option. Remember, you always need to select same method for syncing here as on your OS X application. Just provide password to your OS X vault and it will sync both the apps.

Once you have set up both the applications, they will sync automatically in background every time some change takes place. This ensures that all your passwords remain updated at all times.