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Anonymous
Feb 23, 2022 10:47 PM UTC

Feature Request: Per-user favourites

I have only a few favorites in 1Password and this was an excellent way to find "My Favorites". All of a sudden, I am now seeing favorites which other people who have shared vaults are marking as their favorites. The odd thing is, I can turn them off if I want, but then that removes it from their favorite list.

Is there a way to have our own favorites only show up in favorites. We have a large team of people sharing vaults from different cities. I am not enjoying searching through everything to find mine. I may as well not use favorites anymore.

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    Pinned Reply By 1P_Dave

    @AdamC

    Thanks for the feedback. There isn't an expected release date that the team and I can share. Changing favourites to be per-user rather than per-item is a request that is in our product team's backlog but there are prerequisites that have to be developed first before the team can consider making the change.

    The metadata that stores whether an item is favourited exists in the item itself using the faveIndex value:

    • If an item is favourited then "faveIndex": 1.
    • If an item isn't favourited then "faveIndex": 0.

    Each item is responsible for declaring whether it is a favourite or not, this system was developed in a time when sharing items in 1Password wasn't as common as it is now. Before favourites can be made per-user this faveIndex metadata has to be moved out of the item and into a new user-specific layer in the database. Creating this user-specific layer requires some architecture work and, for the moment, this work is yet to be done.

    Personally, I'd love to see user-specific favourites and I'll continue to push for the feature internally. And, if I do come across any updates that I can share then I'll make sure to update this thread. 🙂

    -Dave

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    1P_Dave
    1Password Employee
    1P_Dave
    1Password Employee
    Jun 19, 2024 5:13 PM UTC

    @KennyC

    Thank you for the feedback, I've shared it with the team as well.

    -Dave

    ref: PB-40566588

    Anonymous
    Aug 6, 2024 3:34 AM UTC

    The Favorites list should show only the items that I've favorited.

    If I want to share my favorite items, I'll duplicate/move them into vaults or create links to the favorites.
    If someone wants to share their favorites with me, they can duplicate/move their favorites into vaults or create links to their favorites.

      1P_Dave
      1Password Employee
      1P_Dave
      1Password Employee
      Aug 7, 2024 7:06 PM UTC

      @DoctorWade

      I've shared your request and feedback with the team as well. Thank you!

      -Dave

      ref: PB-41309954

      ddirks
      ddirks
      Jan 18, 2025 7:57 PM UTC

      Definitely +1 for the idea that favorites should be specific to individual users. As currently configured, the feature is not particularly useful for group accounts.

      In June 2024, Dave_1P provided this information:

      The metadata that stores whether an item is favourited exists in the item itself using the faveIndex value:

      If an item is favourited then "faveIndex": 1.
If an item isn't favourited then "faveIndex": 0.

      I'm not a coder, but would it be possible to overload the existing faveIndex value with a list of the individual userIDs for those who have marked the item as a favorite?

        1P_Dave
        1Password Employee
        1P_Dave
        1Password Employee
        Jan 23, 2025 3:35 PM UTC

        @ddirks

        Thank you for the feedback! I've shared your comment and suggestion with the team. 🙂

        -Dave

        ref: PB-45841241

        siplhium
        Mar 2, 2025 10:57 PM UTC

        A big +1 from me, too. We have a family account and our favorites are clashing or canceling each other out, I don't know which — but it's really annoying. This feels like a design flaw; wherever you see Favorites in software it's user-specific. Otherwise, what's the point?

          Brenters
          Jul 30, 2026 5:16 AM UTC

          Same here. We use shared vaults company-wide and ended up in the same invisible tug-of-war @advisory-david describes: people favoriting and un-favoriting the same items without realizing it changes them for everyone.

          Favorites are personal by definition, and there is no workaround since tags are shared as well.

          And is there any roadmap update after four years?

            1P_Dave
            1Password Employee
            1P_Dave
            1Password Employee
            Jul 30, 2026 8:44 PM UTC

            ​@Brenters 

            Thank you for the feedback! I don’t have any updates to share however the feature request is still open with our product team for consideration in the future. 

            -Dave

            Bikr
            Bikr
            Nov 12, 2026 4:17 PM UTC

            I upvoted and chimed in on a related thread a while ago, but I'm surprised this still hasn't been implemented. I understand it needs architectural work, but it's been years.

            I know much of this thread is about business use, but shared favorites don't make sense for families either. Each member should have their own favorites at the top.

            1P_Dave
            1Password Employee
            1P_Dave
            1Password Employee
            Nov 12, 2026 9:15 PM UTC

            Thank you for the continued feedback! I’ve let the team know that you’d still like to see per-account favourites be implemented in the future. 

            -Dave

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