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Clarea8
Clarea8
August 16, 2026

Finding Watchtower doesn't find all Passkeys or Two Factor logins, and the influence of browser bookmarks.

  • August 16, 2026
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I have been working down my duplicated passwords using Watchtower, which is a good way to structure one’s cleanup of passwords & such. In doing so, and having a look at Passkeys and Two factor authentication I realize there are many of my passwords that either have a non 1Password passkey or actually do have me on Two factor authentication but not recognized by 1Password. 

So I will stay at this point, having found lots of trouble trying to convert non-1Password security to 1Password security. The real goal is to increase security in known ways. I care about my security but I am not concerned when 1Password misses some of what I do.

My view is that this stems from 1Password being designed for members who have no internet logons. It is true that many of my Google Password Manager items came over without a problem, but those that were problematic could be very troublesome. Also, it is important to test the browser bookmark that calls the site- I have had to go back and redo work on sites for that reason. 1Password doesn’t provide a browser bookmark replacement (it can’t because there are many browsers) but what is in the browser bookmark can influence the username, password, and especially the web site that 1Password applies the info to.

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1P_Dave
1Password Employee
1P_Dave
1Password Employee
August 17, 2026

Hello ​@Clarea8! 👋

Thank you for reaching out! If you have a passkey, or one-time password for two-factor authentication, saved in another app then 1Password won’t know about those since it can’t see into those apps. You can save passkeys and one-time password in 1Password for your existing websites using these guides: 

For both passkeys and one-time passwords, you would remove the existing one from the website, then save a new one in 1Password using the steps in the guides that I posted above. 

If you’re migrating from another password manager then you can migrate your passkeys as well if your previous password manager supports the Credential Exchange standard: Import from another app in 1Password on your mobile device 

Note: if you’re already imported your login from your previous password manager then I don’t recommend that you import your logins a second time since you’ll end up with a lot of duplicates. 

Let me know if you have any other questions. 

-Dave

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