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LarryMcJ
December 2, 2022
Question

TouchID requires password too often

  • December 2, 2022
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I realize there are several discussions about this, but in order to provide something definitive, I did an experiment, keeping track of all results. I ensured 1Password was configured to require a password for TouchID every 30 days (screenshot below). In a single 48-hour period, using 1Password on macOS (Ventura v13.0.1), I used AutoFill a total of 50 times. Out of those 50 times, 1Password required my actual password (not TouchID) 10 times. If this is a bug and expected behavior...I'm perfectly fine with it. But if it's not supposed to occur, can someone explain why it does? Having to type in a password this often defeats the purpose of TouchID. Thanks.


1Password Version: 8.9.8
Extension Version: 2.4.1
OS Version: macOS 13.0.1
Browser:_ Safari

45 replies

LarryMcJ
LarryMcJAuthor
December 5, 2022

Three more times this morning this happened. Any "official" word on when it might be resolved?

andrew_l_1P
1Password Employee
December 6, 2022

Hi @LarryMcJ, @shaas4, and @VT1P,

Sorry to hear this behaviour persists. I recognize how disruptive it must be and apologize for any inconvenience. To help us better understand the issue, I'd like to ask you all to create diagnostics reports from your Macs. Ideally these are generated immediately after the password prompt:

Sending Diagnostics Reports (Mac)

Attach the diagnostics to an email message addressed to support+forum@1password.com. Please include your forum usernames and a link to this thread in the email as well.

You should receive an automated reply from our BitBot assistant with a Support ID number. Post that number here so we can link the conversations. Hopefully a look under the hood will give us more insight and we can come to a solution or at least find a workaround. Looking forward to hearing from you all. 👍🏻

LarryMcJ
LarryMcJAuthor
December 7, 2022

Just happened yet again at 7:29pm ET. Message has been sent with attached diagnostics and other info as requested. Below is the Support number.

[#CHT-99432-439]

andrew_l_1P
1Password Employee
December 7, 2022

Thanks, @LarryMcJ!

I see you're already chatting with Grey, you're in good hands. 🙂

ref: CHT-99432-439

LarryMcJ
LarryMcJAuthor
December 7, 2022

I'm hopeful, but I'm quite sure this isn't a Settings thing, otherwise it would happen all the time. Sometimes it demands authentication and sometimes it doesn't. The settings clearly are set to only require authentication once every 30 days.

December 7, 2022

Hi all, I've got the same issue since I upgraded to Ventura.

LarryMcJ
LarryMcJAuthor
December 7, 2022

FWIW, my problem began with 1P v8 beta (not on the beta now), which preceded Ventura.

LarryMcJ
LarryMcJAuthor
December 11, 2022

After the recent update to v8.9.10, I'm happy to report this is not happening anymore. I've tested it dozens of times and it is 100% fixed! I didn't change anything on my end with hardware or other apps, so I have to think v8.9.10 was the solution. Thanks to all the 1Password staff for the forum and email support with this!

December 12, 2022

Same problem here. Frequent hangs of browser extension in Safari and constantly asking for manual input. Incredibly frustrating.

LarryMcJ
LarryMcJAuthor
December 12, 2022

@whackit – FWIW, upgrading to v8.9.10 seems to have fixed this. It was occurring all too often, but it hasn't since 1Password updated. If it's still happening to you in v8.9.10, then it's probably just a matter of time before I see it again.