Unlock behavior with multiple accounts - Difference between v7 and v8 on Windows, not on iOS

Hi jimgarrison:

Great question! In short, yes, this is intentional. Generally speaking, our official recommendation is to use the same 1Password account password for all accounts you use: How to use multiple accounts

Why the change?

For a bit of backstory, we used a relatively "hacky" workaround in older versions of 1Password to allow you to use the account password for the first account added to the app. While this was definitely a handy tool to have, it came with some serious drawbacks. This tended to cause many issues where the password could be different depending on device (based on what accounts were added and what order they were added in), on top of the fact that the account password would change suddenly when that first account was removed. You can still unlock all of your accounts simultaneously using a password in 1Password 8 by using the same account password for all of them. As the passwords themselves are never transmitted over the internet in any form whatsoever, as well as each account having their own unique Secret Key, there is not a worry about password reuse.

If you'd rather stick with using two separate account passwords for each of your 1Password accounts, after each has been unlocked with their own account password, Windows Hello will be able to unlock both of them.

Let me know if that clears it up for you!

Jack