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May 19, 2022
Question

1Password 8 keeps stealing focus on Mac

  • May 19, 2022
  • 92 replies
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Ever since 1Password 8 came out of beta, every update causes the app to start randomly stealing focus. For example, if I'm working one window and then click into Chrome, 1Password will pop up on top. It's very disruptive and distracting. Quitting the app does not fix it, as I will still see 1Password stealing focus, there is just no window. It seems to usually be fixed by Force Quitting 1Password, but the next time it updates it starts happening again.

I also noticed that even though I changed 1Password to use the Production update channel several updates ago, it still says I'm on BETA (80800094).


1Password Version: 8.8.0
Extension Version: 2.3.4
OS Version: macOS 12.3.1 (Silicon)

92 replies

November 12, 2022

I have this problem in 8.9.8 build 80908009 on PRODUCTION channel on Mac. Extremely annoying and very disruptive to workflow.

November 15, 2022

Same, this just started happening to me.

rensa
November 16, 2022

I've also started having this happening on 8.9.8 build 80908009 (I'm on macOS 12.6.1).

I'm seeing two problems:

  1. When you close the 1Password window, it reopens a few seconds later. This pushes it to the front of the Cmd+Tab stack, making it very hard to Cmd+Tab to other apps.
  2. Even if you don't touch the keyboard, 1Password will steal focus intermittently. If you've closed the window and it's "reopened", the app still gets focus in the menu bar even though the window doesn't appear (same as if you Cmd+Tab into it accidentally).

The combination of the two makes it really easy to accidentally activate 1P keyboard shortcuts :/

December 19, 2022

Hi. Any update concerning this issue? So annoying.

Newest Update of macOS and Extensions and App - Issue still there.

January 4, 2023

If I disable the browser extension (V2.5.1) the problem seems to go away.

January 4, 2023

Hi. Thx for your feedback. But for me it's v.2.4.1 within Safari (no newer version available). Or did you mean an other browser?

January 4, 2023

I'm using Chrome as my default browser.

January 6, 2023

Thx for your feedback.

Sad to see that it's not only related to Safari... It's so annoying. And why on earth can't they solve this stupid issue. So sad to see, that more and more bugs are coming up. Same as the stupid different keyboard shortcuts for every browser, main app,... 1PW7 didn't had those issues.

January 29, 2023

Tried the steps above Alex’s post of June 2022 but this is still an ongoing - and intensely irritating - problem.

January 29, 2023

Yes - and no update from 1Password since a long long time... It's sooo annoying!