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Merging Duplicated Password
Is there a way to merge duplicate entries in 1Password?
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Hello robertoborges! 👋
Thank you for the question! 1Password 8 includes a duplicate finder through Watchtower, try these steps:
- Open and unlock the 1Password for Mac desktop app.
- Click on Watchtower in the sidebar.
- Click on Show Items under Items with duplicates.
The duplicates remover tool will only look for items that are exactly the same and that are located in the same vault. You can read more here: Use Watchtower to find account details you need to changeI hope that helps.
-Dave
The “Duplicates Finder” feature does not effectively address the issue of multiple saved passwords for the same website. If there is even a slight variation in the base web address (e.g., a single letter difference), the system fails to recognize these as duplicates. As a result, multiple entries for the same site accumulate—especially when using mobile apps or different login URLs—making it unclear which password is the most current. This often leads to login failures, forcing the use of the “Forgot Password” option, which only creates more confusion if the older, duplicate entries are not manually deleted. This issue is frustrating because the core purpose of a password manager is to save time and simplify logins. Instead, I’m spending more time resetting passwords and cleaning up duplicates.
- 1P_Dave
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Thank you for sharing your use case. I'm curious about the following:
If there is even a slight variation in the base web address (e.g., a single letter difference), the system fails to recognize these as duplicates. As a result, multiple entries for the same site accumulate
I'd like to know more about how you end up with multiple items for the same website. As long as the domain portion of the website address is the same, 1Password will suggest a saved login for that website. So if you have https//domain.com/page3 saved in an item in 1Password, 1Password will still suggest that item on other pages with the same domain:
- https://domain.com/page1
- https://domain.com/page2
When you try to save a new password for the website in the browser, 1Password will remember that you already have login credentials for that website and ask if you want to update your existing item:
Are you using 1Password to automatically save your login credentials on websites and in apps? Or are you creating items manually in the 1Password app?
-Dave
80–90% of my saved passwords in 1Password are duplicates for the same service. After exporting my vault into Excel and parsing the data, I ended up with ~5,000 duplicates across ~1,200 unique logins.
I cannot believe this isn’t obvious to 1Password internally. I’ve been using password managers for 10+ years and consider myself tech-native, yet I’m left having to choose between 3–10 different entries every time I log into an account. That defeats the entire point of using a password manager.
Honestly, I’d be better off with a Word doc tracking my passwords than dealing with this mess. I regret switching from LastPass, which at least didn’t bury me in duplicates.
If needed, I’m happy to share more details of this absurd duplicate problem via DM or phone call. But to reiterate: 90%+ of my 1,000+ logins have multiple duplicates. I can’t believe I’m the only one dealing with this. I have never made a post like this re. A bad experience with software. But this problem butts its ugly head literally every day. What the heck am I paying for?
- 1P_Dave
I'm sorry that you're seeing so many duplicates, that definitely isn't the normal experience for folks who have migrated from another password manager. I suspect that you might have imported your items from Lastpass multiple times but more investigation will be needed to confirm the cause of the issue.
I recommend that you send an email to support@1Password.com so that our support team can help further on a one-to-one basis. Please include a link to this thread. After emailing in, you'll receive a reply from BitBot, our friendly robot assistant with a Support ID that looks something like [#ABC-12345-678]. Post that here, and I'll be able to locate your message and make sure it's gotten to the right place. 🙂
-Dave
Hi
I´d also love such an feature.
Eg, many credentials have different domains. Eg if you log in on a website, 1password will pick up the website with its url. If you use eg. their app, 1password will create an additional object with the "android://" url.
This and similar use cases end up in multiple objects with basically the same credentials, but different names/urls
So it would be fine to be able to merge entries in a automatic way
