November 2025 at 1Password: Access-Trust gap, planning your estate, and an updated unlock experience

Welcome to your monthly roundup of what’s new in the world of 1Password!

Read our 2025 annual report: The Access-Trust Gap 

The Access-Trust Gap is the widening divide between the types of access that security and IT teams can control and the reality of  how people, and now AI agents, access sensitive systems and data in practice. We recently published our annual Access-Trust Gap report with findings based on the responses of more than 5000 individuals working in security, IT, and knowledge-based roles.

Our report presents insights on where the Access-Trust Gap is the widest, and where employees are commonly accessing resources without proper controls:

• 37% of employees don’t follow their company’s AI policy
• 52% of employees download apps without IT approval  
• 70% of IT/IS professionals say SSO doesn’t secure employee identities

 

Along with the report you can read three supporting articles which explore key insights in detail, and provide further recommendations on how to close the Access-Trust Gap with 1Password.

• Access-Trust Gap Report
• The enterprise AI crisis
• SSO is falling short
• Password habits are worsening

Introducing a new unlock experience 

We’re excited to share that our updated unlock experience is now available on 1Password for Mac and Windows. This update introduces device-based unlock options as well as unlock presets that allow you to find the right balance of security and convenience. That means you can now choose to unlock 1Password with your device, use your device password to unlock 1Password, and adjust how frequently your password is required. 

You can find all the details in our announcement.

Windows 11  Passkey Support

Creating and using passkeys has been available on Windows with 1Password in the browser since 2023. Expanding our passwordless features, 1Password for Windows now offers native Windows passkey support. That means you can create and use passkeys in desktop apps, as well as in the browser, then seamlessly sync them with 1Password.

If you have any questions, or are curious to learn more you can check out the announcement post here in the Community.

Read our digital estate planning guide

Estate planning is an important consideration for everyone. However, what often goes overlooked is a handover plan for online accounts and digital assets. This month we released our digital estate planning guide to help you make sure these important details aren’t forgotten.

How will you transfer accounts with 2FA or passkeys to your family members? What will you do with accounts that are left to you in a digital estate? Our digital estate planning guide walks you through these questions and many more. 

You can find the digital estate planning guide, and our digital estate planning episode of Random but Memorable with Willful in our Community. 

Watch the latest episode of Securing the Win: Our continuing docuseries with Oracle Red Bull Racing

We teamed up with Oracle Red Bull Racing to explore how world-class organizations balance performance and protection.

In this month’s episodes you can push boundaries with Nimesh Kotech, read up on Matt Cadieux’s playbook, then get behind the wheel with Verstappen and Tsunodo. 

• Episode 3: How Nimesh Kotecha pushes the boundaries of control
• Episode 4: Oracle Red Bull Racing CIO Matt Cadieux’s cyber resilience playbook
• Episode 5: Behind the wheel with Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda

Random but Memorable

• Episode 15.9 - Why you need a digital estate plan (and where to start)
• Episode 16.0 - How to avoid online shopping scams 

Release note highlights

Browser Extension

• There are new unlock settings available for the 1Password browser extension. If you don’t integrate the browser extension with the 1Password app, select 1Password in your browser’s toolbar, then select the account menu > Settings > Security to manage your settings.
• We’ve fixed an issue where websites with many fields and dropdowns could crash in Chromium browsers when using the 1Password browser extension.
• Localization has been improved for a number of our supported languages using new translations from Crowdin.
• We’ve fixed an issue where business passkey policies prevented personal accounts from filling passkeys while 1Password was locked.

Mac, Windows, and Linux

• We’ve fixed an issue where 1Password would open in front of other windows after a silent MSIX update. [Windows]
• We’ve fixed an issue that prevented rich SSH and CLI prompts from appearing on Wayland. [Linux]
• If duplicates are detected when you import environment variables, you can now choose to ignore, overwrite, or keep both.
• We’ve expanded the additional browsers you can connect to the 1Password app to include browsers that use more complex background processes. [Mac]
• When you view an Environment in 1Password, updated wording now distinguishes between temporarily revealing variables and changing their default visibility.
• We’ve fixed an issue that caused comma-separated URLs in code blocks within Secure Notes to change when you saved them.
• In-app updates are now blocked for MSIX system-wide installs and Microsoft Intune-managed deployments to avoid issues tracking 1Password’s install state, update failures, and de-provisioning. [Windows]

iOS, and Android 

• There are new unlock settings and presets available for the 1Password app, including Unlock with device. You can manage these settings in the app under Settings > Security.
• If biometric unlock fails, you can now use the SSO login option instead. [iOS]
• We’ve fixed an issue that caused comma-separated URLs in code blocks within Secure Notes to change when you saved them.
• We’ve fixed an issue where you couldn’t select the “Sign in” button after you changed your account email, and an issue where your Secret Key wouldn’t pre-populate after you changed your account password. [Android]