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Unlock with Apple Watch very unreliable in 1Password 8 - system sleep seems to break it for 1PW8
I use 'unlock with Apple Watch; on my Mac, a lot. As well as using it to unlock the Mac itself, I have several apps that use it one of them being 1Password 8. I often leave my Mac with 1Password open but minimised. I have it set to lock 1PW on sleep, screensaver (never occurs on this Mac) or switching users (also never occurs on this Mac). Every single time I come back to my Mac a bit later, such that the system has slept and then been woken (and unlocked by my Watch) 1 Password no longer offers me the Apple watch unlock dialogue nor does the master password entry field have the watch icon at the right hand end. If I quit 1PW8 and then re-launch it the functionality is instantly restored virtually every time.
I have tried to reproduce this issue with other apps that also provide 'unlock with Apple Watch' functionality but they do not seem to have this issue, hence it seems to me that this is a 1Password 8 bug.
This is quite annoying; any chance of a fix?
1Password Version: 8.9.4
Extension Version: 2.3.7
OS Version: macOS 12.5.1
Browser:_ Safari
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1P_Tommy I don't see that 'presence' has anything to do with this, nor why it should matter. The issue occurs even if I just lock/sleep my Mac while sitting at my desk and then unlock/wake it a minute later (or 30 seconds later, or an hour later, or...). If 1PW8 was open at the time the system slept, then 'Unlock with Apple Watch' is permanently broken until I quit and re-launch 1PW8.
On system wake:
- macOS itself wakes and unlocks itself with my watch
- Other apps that use unlock with Apple Watch that I click on to unminmise themselves immediately display the unlock with watch dialogue.
- 1PW8 just displays its window with the 'Enter your password' field and no offer of watch unlock nor any Apple Watch icon. Clicking in the password field and hitting enter just causes it to wobble; it does not result in the issuance of the unlock with watch dialogue nor the appearance of the watch icon.This occurs consistently and depends solely on whether the system has slept or not. System sleep seems to break this functionality for 1PW8 (it it is open across the system sleep/wake events) but not for macOS itself nor for other apps. That surely must not be what is desired and should be fixed...
- 1P_Tommy
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I often leave my Mac with 1Password open but minimised.
Every single time I come back to my Mac a bit later, such that the system has slept and then been woken (and unlocked by my Watch)This is likely the culprit. In my understanding we don't have a way to determine when things like walking away and coming back happen. No presence detection would be how I would describe it. A workaround is when you return to the desk put the cursor in the password field of the app and press the return key. This should trigger an unlock prompt. This is what I do when I walk away for a break and return.
