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July 12, 2023
Question

Pressing Option key to reveal hidden passwords stops working after restarting 1Password

  • July 12, 2023
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After I fully quit 1Password (using the menu bar icon) en then restarting it again, pressing the Option key to reveal hidden passwords no longer works. If I toggle the option off and on again in the settings, it works again (until the next restart).


1Password Version: 8.10.9/81009012 BETA
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: macOS 13.4.1
Browser: Not Provided

47 replies

August 5, 2023

I'm seeing the same issue with the currently nightly on macOS (1Password for Mac 8.10.12 (81012013))

Toggling "Hold option to toggle revealed fields" doesn't help, but ⌘R does reveal the fields.

Holding option has been part of my muscle memory for years, so losing that functionality is fairly high-impact for me.

August 6, 2023

Thanks for the reply, will give that a shot!

1P_Tommy
1Password Employee
August 7, 2023

Sound good. You might also try Command + R.

August 7, 2023

Can confirm same issue here on my machine, 1Password Version: 8.10.9, OS Version: 13.4.1, Apple M1.

Hold Option to toggle revealed fields will break on first launch of the app, and will work if uncheck the option and check again.

Also, the title of the Settings window will change upon the first modification of any setting, from Settings to <user account name> - <current selection in the main app sidebar> - 1Password. I'm not sure if there's anything related between these two bugs.

August 7, 2023

I've recently noticed that alt/option no longer reveals the masked passwords. I can't confirm this happened right after updating from macOS 13.4 to 13.5, but that's the last thing I did to my laptop.
The relevant setting in Settings > Security is still checked; I've tried both bluetooth and builtin keyboards.


1Password Version: 1Password for Mac 8.10.9 (81009046)
Extension Version: 2.13.0
OS Version: Version 13.5 (22G74)
Browser: Edge 114.0.1823.51

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
August 7, 2023

@zhang13 and @seguri

I'm sorry that you're also affected by the issue. Our developers are investigating and we hope to release a fix in the future.

In the meantime, you can use the workaround that I described here or use Command + R to reveal the fields.

-Dave

August 7, 2023

@1P_Dave sorry for opening a duplicate thread. I swear I checked first, and didn't see this one 😇

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
August 7, 2023

@seguri

No worries! I merged the threads together so that we keep the conversation in one thread.

Thanks again for reporting the issue. 🙂

-Dave

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
August 7, 2023

@xeno

I'm sorry for the impact to your workflow. Our developers are aware of the issue and are investigating.

-Dave

August 25, 2023

This has been happening for many months, it's frustrating that the only workaround is to constantly toggle the setting

I'm currently running 1Password for Mac 8.10.13 (81013005)