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rando
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3 months ago

Allow copying as pasting a passkey

While enabling passkeys, 1Password has created many new entries for each web site, but with a passkey. Now, I have two entries per site. One with a passkey, and one with all other info. I want to kee...
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1P_Dave
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3 months ago

Hello rando​! 👋

Thank you for the feedback! 1Password doesn't allow the copying and pasting of passkeys in order to prevent passkeys from being exfiltrated by a phishing attack. That being said, I can see how being able to merge a Login item containing a passkey and a Login item containing a password for the same website would be useful and I've passed this, along with your specific comments, along to our product team. 

While enabling passkeys, 1Password has created many new entries for each web site, but with a passkey.

Whenever you save a passkey, 1Password will offer to save it to your existing Login item as long as that Login item's website address field matches the website address that you're on:


If you have passkeys saved in a new item, and the rest of your information in another item, then the easiest way to fix this would be to do the following: 

  1. Sign into the website or app in question.
  2. Remove the passkey from the website or app. 
  3. Delete the Login item containing the passkey in 1Password. 
  4. Save a new passkey and this time choose to save it to your existing Login item.


I hope that helps.

-Dave

PB-50884266

rando's avatar
rando
New Contributor
3 months ago

Hi 1P_Dave​ !

As I mentioned before, I don't need an actual copy/paste but simply the ability to move the passkey from one login entry to another. Phishing shouldn't be an issue in that case, I guess.

I know about adding a passkey to an existing entry. But the problem is that doing that used to remove the password from the entry. I'm not sure if that's still the case, but that's how I ended up with many duplicate entries over time. Many web sites don't consider having a passkey as "going passwordless" and they can still ask for your password. The ideal approach would be the combine password and the passkey. Maybe, it's fixed now, but doesn't help my current situation.

I've already been doing what you suggested: removing passkey and adding it again, or moving other fields one by one to the one with the passkey.

Thanks for passing this along to the product team, I hope it gets better. Maybe it already has? 

Thanks!

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    1P_Dave
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    3 months ago

    rando​ 

    Thanks for the reply. I've passed your request/feedback along to our team internally. You wrote: 

    But the problem is that doing that used to remove the password from the entry.

    Which version were you using when you ran into this issue? And on which device? This definitely isn't the correct behaviour, when you save a passkey in an existing item any passwords in that item are kept. 

    -Dave

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      rando
      New Contributor
      3 months ago

      Hi 1P_Dave​,

      I think it was when passkeys were first rolled out. I don't recall the exact version number. I tried it with a web site now and it correctly suggested me to merge the passkey with the existing login item, and kept the password too.

      This seems to have been resolved, at the expense of my merging efforts :) 

      Thanks!

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        1P_Dave
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        3 months ago

        I'm glad that everything is working now! 🙂

        -Dave