Deleting Vaults

@manxman To delete a vault, sign in to your family account on 1Password.com, click your family name in the top right and choose Admin Console, then click Vaults, select your vault and click Delete Vault. More details on this, as well as vault management in general, are available in this article:

Create, share, and manage vaults

If you're watching a video from Aleen, it's likely older. I can let the video team know you asked about a vault management video :) Hope that helps!

Hi @manxman,

For vaults that you have created, like your DOCS vault, you can delete the vault from your Home page. Click on the pencil in the vault card to edit the details of the vault and you should get an image similar to the following.

From there you can click on Delete Vault and follow the prompts to delete your vault. I hope that helps.

I am glad it worked.

I agree that it is a bit oddly placed, but we didn't want to put it somewhere where it would be clicked accidentally :)

@abc2mit: If it helps, you could create a local vault with a different Master Password in 1Password for Mac and simply not use that vault; you'll still be able to unlock the app with its Master Password.

However, this (like your comments about using a shorter password because you enter it a lot) isn't something we recommend. Using a long, strong, unique Master Password is crucial because this is fundamental to your security. I know it can seem onerous, but if you think about it it's much, much easier to remember and type a single good Master Password than more than one weak one, and both become easier with time and practice as well. Cheers! :)

@learning_1pw: Great suggestion regarding the 1Password for Mac security preferences! You may also want to take another look at 1Password for iOS Settings > Security. Rather than enabling and disabling the PIN repeatedly, you could change the locking behaviour there. I use Touch ID so I don't recall if this also applies to the PIN setting, but you may find something in 1Password Settings > Advanced > Security as well. :)

@learning_1pw: You should really try Touch ID. It is much more secure than a 4-digit PIN, and a lot more convenient as well. However, it sounds like what you really need to do first is disable Lock on Exit. If that is enabled, then, like you said, 1Password will lock any time you switch away from it — which will often be before the timer kicks in. Hope that helps! :)

Thanks, brenty, for the Lock on Exit tip.

@learning_1pw: You're welcome! :chuffed:

I had misinterpreted that phrase. I was thinking that if I turned that off, that 1Password would not lock when I quit the program (double click on home button and sweep up the application).

That's understandable. I do want to mention that in general it isn't beneficial to kill apps in this manner. iOS handles this in the background automatically, and launching an app that's been killed uses more power (and therefore battery) than if you'd left it alone and let iOS pause it in the background while not in use. Of course, sometimes it's necessary to kill a frozen app though! But also, I find killing apps manually is just tedious. Just a thought. ;)

On your suggestion, though, I turned Lock on Exit off and quit the program. I was pleased to see that 1Password does indeed require the master password when I restart it. Now that you have given me a better understanding of what Lock on Exit really means, I'll leave it turned off. Thanks for your help.

Cool. I think a lot of people prefer this setting, but we do want to default to tighter security to be on the safe side. Glad that helped! :)

On behalf of Brenty, you're very welcome @learning_1pw :+1: To be honest I'm one of those people swiping up to close apps running in the background. I'll have to follow Brenty's advice here as well. I blame my OCD :lol: Have a great rest of your day!

@randy_g: Can you be more specific about how you're using 1Password that it gets in the way? It sounds like you're trying to share everyone's personal named vaults with everyone else. The Personal/Private vault exists so that each user has a place to store things without them being shared. You may have different expectations or wishes, but for most folks this is pretty important.

Hi @dbabq - By any chance do you have a secondary local vault besides your Primary vault? Any secondary vaults have to be removed first before the Primary vault can be deleted. If so, just follow the steps below but delete the secondary vault first then the Primary -

Open and unlock 1Password on your Mac. Click 1Password in the menu bar > Select "Switch to Vault" and choose Primary from the list. Click 1Password in the menu bar and select "Delete Vault" from the drop down list. You will have to enter your master password before you can delete the vault.

Keep me posted and let us know if this helped or if you're still running into trouble :smile:

Sounds good! We're here if you need us. :)