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Customizing your settings

Learn how to customize your settings to best suit your needs.

Written by Owen Parry

Updated at August 9th, 2024

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Accessing Settings Description of Individual Settings

Password Boss allows you to customize many of the app's features. However, all settings are not available on all devices and may require a paid subscription to access them. 
 

Accessing Settings


Desktop

Click on the gear icon to open Settings. The Settings are arranged on multiple tabs.

 
 

iOS

  1. Tap the More ios_more_button.png  button.
     
  2. Tap the Settings button.
 
 

Android

  1. From the top left, tap the menu icon android_menu_icon.png
     
  2. Tap the Settings button.
 
 

WebApp

  1. Click on Settings on the left-hand menu
     
  2. The settings are arranged on the left side of the display.
 
 

 

Description of Individual Settings


Desktop and Mobile

Account Profile

  • Account Status shows your subscription details.
  • Update your name.
  • Mobile number is used to send you alerts and for 2-Step Verification.
  • Choose the app language.
  • The Country is what Password Boss uses as a default when you create new items.

Backups

  • Configure your online backups.

Security Settings

  • Set the delay before the app automatically locks.
  • Change your Master Password.
  • Should Password Boss remember your email when you log out.
  • Do you want to see your passwords automatically when you click into a login field, or do you want to have to click the owl first.
  • Do you want to automatically see prompts to fill in web forms or do you want to click the owl first.
  • Configure 2-Step Verification.

Devices

  • See all of the devices on your account.
  • Delete devices from your account.

Folders

  • Create, edit, and delete folders.
  • If you delete a folder, you will also delete all of the items in that folder.

Advanced Settings (Desktop)

  • Configure auto-login.
  • Disable status messages.

Disabled List (Desktop)

  • Turn off Password Boss for individual web pages or for entire sites.
 
 

WebApp

You and Password Boss

  • Change your display language and appearance.
  • Change your data storage location.
  • Update your name and mobile number.
  • Mobile number is used to send you alerts and for 2-Step Verification.
  • Add a secondary email address

Security

  • Set the Auto-Logout timer after a period of inactivity.
  • Change your Master Password.
  • Get the Recovery Code and download the Recovery Key (a PDF) file that allows you to change your Master Password without losing your Passwords.
  • Should Password Boss remember your email when you log out.
  • Configure Two Factor authentication.
    • Allows you to enable or disable two-factor authentication
    • You can select which method to use for two-factor authentication between an Authenticator App or SMS
    • Create recovery codes allowing access when you do not have your 2-factor authentication. 

Dark Web Scanning

  • Automatically scan your email addresses to check for any data breaches from third-party websites or apps.
  • It allows you to scan individual email addresses found in your password items selectively.
  • Notify you if a password that you use has been found in a security breach

Preferences

  • Toggle the setting to Automatically prompt to fill on websites.
  • Toggle the setting to Automatically prompt you to fill in personal information on websites.
  • Toggle the setting to Automatically login to saved sites by default.
  • Clear sites with disabled auto-save
  • Enable logging into remote servers.
  • Enable support for the ConnectWise Control extension.

Folders

  • Create, edit, and delete folders.
  • If you delete a folder, you will also delete all of the items in that folder.

Devices

  • See all of the devices on your account.
  • Delete devices from your account.

Disable List

  • Turn off Password Boss for individual web pages or for entire sites.

Domain Rules

  • If you use the same login on multiple websites, you can set up Equivalent Domains to allow logins across different domains with the same saved password.' Global' domains are added by Password Boss.

Tags

  • Use tags to organize your items

Custom Views

  • Organize your items with tags to create custom views

About Password Boss

  • View additional information about Password Boss
 
 

 

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