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How do I disable passkey support?

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February 20, 2025
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How do I disable all prompting or integration for passkeys in the 1password browser plugin for safari?

Best answer by 1P_Dave

Hello @ProratedMongoose! 👋

Thanks for reaching out! Is there a particular reason why you wanted to turn off passkey support for 1Password in Safari? Passkeys are the future of authentication and I would recommend upgrading to passkeys wherever possible: Save and sign in with passkeys in your browser

That being said, you can turn off passkey support by following these steps:

Open your browser.
Right-click on the 1Password icon in your browser's toolbar and click Settings.
Click Autofill & save.
Turn off "Offer to save and sign in with passkeys".

If you're an administrator for a 1Password Business membership then you can also turn off passkeys for your entire team using app usage policies.

-Dave

1P_DaveAnswer

1Password Employee

Hello @ProratedMongoose! 👋

Thanks for reaching out! Is there a particular reason why you wanted to turn off passkey support for 1Password in Safari? Passkeys are the future of authentication and I would recommend upgrading to passkeys wherever possible: Save and sign in with passkeys in your browser

That being said, you can turn off passkey support by following these steps:

Open your browser.
Right-click on the 1Password icon in your browser's toolbar and click Settings.
Click Autofill & save.
Turn off "Offer to save and sign in with passkeys".

If you're an administrator for a 1Password Business membership then you can also turn off passkeys for your entire team using app usage policies.

-Dave

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ProratedMongooseAuthor

My question has seemingly been resolved with that answer.

After helping the 4th person get themselves back into accounts that they got locked out of because of the terrible state of Passkey usability I came to the conclusion that for many, this half-baked feature should be turned off.

See also these articles which I would assume 1password is familiar with.

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salv0

I'll second your "half-baked" observation. I never initiated it on my account, yet upgrading to v8 led to a persistent/annoying "No passkeys available" prompt on my Android (with the unhelpful option to "Use a different device"). I get the impression they have organizationally changed along with their business values.

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ProratedMongooseAuthor

How do I disable Passkey support entirely on iOS? This includes both in Safari and in other apps I never want 1Password to offer to save a passkey. I have already disabled iOS from doing it

I am aware that 1Password wishes I would use passkeys. As I once again had to assist a friend with an account recovery because of the poor user experience that is passkeys in the world, I find I need to disable it entirely from 1Password on iOS.

1P_Dave

1Password Employee

Hello @ProratedMongoose! 👋

I'm sorry that you're running into issues with passkeys. On iOS, AutoFill is specifically handled by the operating system and 1Password just provides the data for the experience. iOS AutoFill doesn't provide an option to just turn off the passkey functionality while keeping password AutoFill turned on, if you look at AutoFill settings on your phone you'll see there's only one switch for both passwords and passkeys:

That being said, AutoFill will only offer to save a passkey if the website or app that you're on makes a webauthn request. Usually this happens because you've tapped on an option to create a passkey on that website or app. Then AutoFill intercepts that webauthn request and offers to create a passkey in your preferred password manager.

Out of curiosity, what are the issues that you and your friend ran into? Did a passkey that you had previously saved in 1Password not work to sign you into a specific app or website?

-Dave

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1P_Bobby

also late to this party Dave but my concern is when the Passkey is a W11 Hello biometric, and the biometric does not recognized my face, the backup is a PIN XXXX, 4 digits only. Pretty easy to break it seems. What am I missing.

Also, not real clear how to disable this for just 1Password master account login.

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