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mobidutch
April 29, 2025
Question

How to set "My Vaults" as default?

  • April 29, 2025
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On iOS, when I open 1Password (personal) after it was locked, the "Home" page defaults to showing the "My Vaults" collection.  

However, on Windows it often (not always, oddly enough) opens up to my profile name, which means it shows ALL vaults.

Is there a way to have 1Password for Windows always default to "My Vaults" the first time it loads/opens?

8 replies

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
May 6, 2025

Hello @mobidutch! 👋

Thank you for reaching out! 1Password for Windows should remember the collection that you had open last and re-open to that collection. The next time that this doesn't happen, so that the team and I can investigate further, I'd like to ask you to create a diagnostics report from your Windows PC:

Send a diagnostics report (Windows)

Attach the diagnostics to an email message addressed to support@1password.com

With your email please include:

  • A link to this thread: https://www.1password.community/discussions/1password/how-to-set-my-vaults-as-default/155346
  • Your forum username: Mobidutch


You should receive an automated reply from our BitBot assistant with a Support ID number.  Please post that number here.  Thanks very much!

-Dave

mobidutch
mobidutchAuthor
May 7, 2025

I sent the diagnostics report via email, but I did not receive an automated reply form your BitBot assistant.  The email was sent from [redacted].

The issue is that when I start 1Passsord after a fresh boot/reboot of Windows (or after shutting down 1Password and restarting it), it always opens to the collection that has my full name [redacted], which contains all vaults. Instead, I would prefer it to always open to the "My Vaults" collection by default.

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
May 7, 2025

@mobidutch 

Thank you! I see your email and one of my colleagues will send you another response by email soon. Please continue the conversation there. 

I've removed your email address and name from your post in the public community for your privacy. 

-Dave

mobidutch
mobidutchAuthor
August 1, 2026

Hello Dave… this is still an open issue. I did not receive a follow-up by one of your colleagues. 

I would still like to request that a setting is added to 1Password that determines which vault collection opens by default after first opening 1Password following a boot/reboot. For my installation, it always seems to open to the collection that has my name. It never opens by default to “All Accounts”, which I am OK with. But after startup, it also never opens by default to the one collection I added myself.

 

Once I have manually selected my custom collection from the drop-down, it stays on that selection every subsequent time I open 1Password, so that is good.  There just doesn’t seem to be a way to also force it to open that custom collection by default after a reboot.

 

Can that functionality be considered please?   Thank you!

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
August 4, 2026

@mobidutch 

Thank you for following up, just to confirm are you still seeing the issue on Windows after you restart your Windows PC? It’s been some time since the last post in this thread so I want to make sure that I still have the platform correct.

-Dave

mobidutch
mobidutchAuthor
August 4, 2026

The behavior is hard to pin down. After a reboot, sometimes 1Password opens to the “My Vaults” collection. Other times it opens to the ‘vault’ that has my full name, which contains the same number of items as the “All Accounts” drop-down.

I would like it to always open to “My Vaults”.

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
August 5, 2026

@mobidutch 

Thank you for the reply. This is a behaviour that we’ve been able to reproduce consistently with the macOS app but less so with the Windows app recently (although we’ve reproduced the issue with the Windows app in the past). 

Would you mind sending in a new diagnostics report the next time that the issue occurs:

Send a diagnostics report (Windows)

Attach the diagnostics to an email message addressed to support@1password.com

You should receive an automated reply with a new Support ID number.  Please post that number here.  Thanks very much!

-Dave

mobidutch
mobidutchAuthor
August 5, 2026

One additional piece of information: It looks like what is happening is that when I start 1Password AFTER it was completely closed (also not running in the background), it always opens to the collection that I chose last in my most recent 1Password session.   I suppose you could call that ‘desired behavior’. But my preference would be:  After I shut down 1Password (or reboot PC) and then open 1Password again, I always want it to open to a preferred collection. 

Also: 1Password has a setting under General=>Defaults called “Open 1Password to”. I have that set to “Favorites”.   The first time I open 1Password after a reboot, it indeed opens to Favorites. But if I subsequently click on e.g. “Watchtower” and then close 1Password (with or without killing the app in the tray), and then reopen 1Password, it again opens to Watchtower.

I would MUCH prefer this behavior:

  • 1Password ALWAYS opens to Favorites (if that’s what I picked) under “Open 1Password to”, no matter what I did in my previous session.
  • 1Password ALWAYS opens to the collection “My Vaults” (or whatever collection I pick in Settings).

I’ll try to capture a log if I think about it...