Question

How 1Password resolve edit conflict without sending unencrypted data to server?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
June 7, 2025
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If everything in the vault is encrypted and never leaves the server unencrypted, how does 1Password resolve edit conflicts? Does everything happen automatically, or does the user need to intervene?

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1P_SimonH

Community Manager

Hi @nawan,

Good question! You might be interested in our Security Design documentation to get an in-depth understanding of how your data is kept secured. In less-technical language, the data is always encrypted when vaults or items are syncing across devices.

For conflicts, are you imagining a scenario like two members of a family account editing the same item at the same time?

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nawanAuthor

For conflicts, are you imagining a scenario like two members of a family account editing the same item at the same time?

Yes, sort of. The operational transformation used by Google Docs and many others seems impossible due to the end-to-end encryption of the data.

1P_SimonH

Community Manager

Hi @nawan,

There's no push notification or popup within 1Password – if two people edit an item seconds apart, the more recent edit will be reflected in the item. The earlier edit will still be saved in the history of the item, so no data will be lost in the unlikely scenario that two users are editing the same item simultaneously.

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