1Password 8: 2nd account doesn't unlock with app

Howdy @charlesjolley @"Nathaniel Daught"! 👋

I went ahead and merged both of your respective threads to keep things tidy, hope you don't mind!

Nathaniel: "Perhaps this is meant as a security measure(?) but in the past I've NEVER had to re-enter my alternate (work) account master password once it was added to my apps..."

Charles: "I use multiple accounts on my Mac (personal/family and work). They have different master passwords. When 1Password8 is locked, I am presented with a screen to put in my password - but how do I unlock both accounts at once?"

In short, this is intentional behavior. As you noticed, 1Password 7 will unlock all accounts, even if they have different passwords, whereas 1Password 8 selectively unlocks accounts based on the password entered, unless you're using Touch ID to unlock the app.

Why change things now?

To give a bit of backstory, back in the day we implemented a very "hacky" workaround in older versions of 1Password to allow you to use the Account Password for the first account added to the app. Admittedly, this was a seriously handy tool to have, but it came also with some serious drawbacks. What you couldn't see is that this tended to cause many issues where the password could be different depending on the devices, on top of the fact that the Account Password would change suddenly when that first account originally added to the app was removed, leaving folks locked out of 1Password entirely.

You can still unlock all of your accounts simultaneously in 1Password 8 by using the same password for all of them. They will each still have their own unique Secret Key to protect against the normal threats caused with password reuse.

If you're curious about some of the finer details, our very own Security Wizard @jpgoldberg explains it all here...

Nathaniel: "Kudos to your UI designers on v8. Besides preference panels rendering the main interface useless I'm really enjoying the new interface. Still adjusting to "Quick Access" replacing Mini. At this point my only real concern with the switch to Electron is memory usage."

Thank you for the kind words, I'll be sure to pass them along! Our design team has really been putting in some serious work making 1Password 8 as beautiful as can be! 🥰

Quick Access has easily become so much more useful than I think Mini ever was, at leastfor me personally. As for the memory usage related to Electron, then I think you can put your fears to rest entirely. As of today, actually were finally able to find the bug that was causing 1Password 8 for Mac to consume huge amounts of memory in some cases. The culprit? A 4 year old bug in Swift...