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chaanmaan
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1 day ago

Trouble Creating New Account

I am in the free trial phase. I wanted to see how 1password would work with passwords that I typically use on a shared work computer (classroom podium). When I used the browser plugin in Chrome to sign into 1password, I was asked if I want to include all the passwords in the My family account. I'd rather just give a shared work computer browser access to the passwords I use for work. Creating a Work vault did not work -- it seems I need to crate a Work account. When I go to Manage Accounts \ Create a New Account, I sign in with email, password, key, etc., but I am then just taken back to my My Family account. There's no way to create a new Work account or "sign into a new account" as I see in the online instructions. What am I doing wrong?

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  • 1P_Dave's avatar
    1P_Dave
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    1 hour ago

    Hello chaanmaan​! 👋

    Welcome to 1Password! When you sign in to your 1Password account on a device or browser, you give that device or browser access to all of your items. The easiest way to just give your work device access to only your work-related vault is to use a guest account: 


    Guest accounts only have access to one vault and are included if you already have a 1Password Families membership. You can can sign in to your work computer using the guest account rather than using your personal account and only the vault that the guest account has access to will appear on your work computer. 

    That said, I recommend checking with your employer before storing work-related passwords in 1Password. They may prefer to set you up with a 1Password Business account, or they might require a different password manager and ask that work credentials not be stored in a personal account they don’t manage.

    -Dave