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olisturm
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2 months ago

Password queried multiple times per day

I use my Mac with the display closed and I rely on my Apple Watch for quick unlocking - works fine, though not perfectly, with the Mac itself. However, recently I've noticed (perhaps for a few weeks now) that 1Password asks me for the account password several times most days. This worked a lot better before, and since I specifically configured 1Password to never ask for the password, I don't understand what's going on. I found a few other older threads on similar topics, but none of them had a visible solution.

Here are my settings  - no clue by the way why the checkboxes in the "unlock" part are grayed out.

I should mention that Apple Watch unlocking works occasionally, I saw it just yesterday. This is 1Password for Mac 8.10.72 (81072027) on macOS 15.4.1.

Any pointers how to fix this?

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  • olisturm's avatar
    olisturm
    New Contributor
    2 months ago

    So... I don't know what happened, but a couple days ago out of the blue there was a popup that said something like "1Password wants to use TouchID". I confirmed this (I rarely actually use TouchID on this machine because the display is closed, but I assumed it may also refer to other similar unlocking mechanisms) and since that time it appears that my watch unlocking works better than it did recently. 

    I guess that somehow 1Password lost or dropped some sort of registration for this mechanism that had been in place before, and then it stopped working properly? But then why was it working sometimes, but not all the time? Strange... and whatever prompted it to repair its setup now, I have no idea.

    I'll watch things (ha!) and see how it goes in the future.

    • 1P_Dave's avatar
      1P_Dave
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      2 months ago

      Hello olisturm​! 👋

      I'm glad that things are working better now! If the issue returns then let me know and the team and I can help further. 

      -Dave

      • olisturm's avatar
        olisturm
        New Contributor
        2 months ago

        Hi 1P_Dave​ - thanks for getting in touch. 

        Unfortunately this problem is not resolved, it just happened again this morning.

        In the meantime I have seen something a couple of times that I don't remember coming up before either: a little dialog that says something like "1Password is attempting to activate authentication with your Apple Watch, confirm?" (I thought about it and I'm not 100% that it mentions my Watch - it could be that it refers to TouchId in general). So I confirm it, probably around three times or so since my last message here, and then for a little while things are good. 

        It appears that perhaps 1Password somehow loses its integration with the authentication system on the Mac? And then sometimes it attempts to reestablish it, other times it just asks for a password... or something like that. Please let me know if I can give you any information that may help fix this problem.