Unlocking multiple accounts at once using an account password

Hello Dru89! 👋

Thank you for posting on the community forum! The behaviour that you've described is by design in 1Password 8: when using an account password to unlock the 1Password for Mac app, only the account associated with that account password will unlock. You'll need to unlock each account using its own account password.

Using Touch ID to unlock 1Password allows us to fetch the secrets to decrypt and unlock all of your accounts at once from the Secure Enclave. When you use your account password to unlock the app, the secrets for the other accounts aren't available and so only the account associated with your account password is unlocked.

We have a guide on how to simplify the process so that you can use the same account password to unlock all of your accounts at once: How to use multiple accounts

I hope that helps! 🙂

-Dave