1Password 8.10.7 Mac locks when window closed

@mikeytwice

I've forwarded your comments and request to our Product team. Thank you for the feedback.

-Dave

ref: PB-34185707

Hi all, just want to join the chorus about wanting to keep 1Password running with the menu bar icon off. Aside from wanting to keep the menubar free of clutter (and not really needing the icon because I use hotkeys), I think there's a minor security issue here. For various reasons, I don't want people to know I have 1Password running, and the app's functionality is pretty severely kneecapped when the app isn't running in the background. (For example, when it's not running in the background, Chrome often and unpredictably solicits touch ID and asks me to enter a password.)

@reidtait

Thank you for the feedback. I've added your comments to the internal work item that our developers have open to look into turning the menu bar icon off while still leaving 1Password running in the background.

-Dave

I'm so glad I came across this thread. I find it a bit disingenuous that this change in functionality is being characterized as a bug fix to 1Password 8. I've been leaving 1Password running without any active windows and without the menu bar icon since the 1Password 7 days. Like others, I assumed that this was another bug in 1Password 8 and have spent the last couple weeks or so frustrated every time my 1P keyboard shortcuts weren't working.

I'll take the recommended steps and run the menu bar icon hidden, but for folks who don't use Bartender and don't want an unnecessary menu bar tool (my parents, for example), this seems like a fundamental change in functionality that breaks what I thought was 1Password's standard behaviour: always running in the background ready to respond to keyboard shortcuts.

@burtmacklin21

Thank you, I've shared your feedback with the team. I don't believe that it's likely that the app will go back to the old behaviour but we do have a work item open to look into giving folks an option to keep 1Password open and unlocked even when the menubar icon is disabled.

-Dave

ref: dev/core/core#9557

I find this new behavior confusing as well. Until I realized what was going on, I kept logging in and closing the app window afterward like I normally do, which stuck me in a cycle of unlocking and immediately locking 1Password. An option to go back to the old behavior would be great, and in the future, better messaging around a high-impact change like this would be ideal 🙂 I definitely thought this was a bug and kept looking for an update that would patch it.

@c224

Thank you for the feedback, I've passed it along to the team. Hopefully we can improve the experience with keeping 1Password open even when the menubar is disabled in a future update.

And thank you for being part of 1Password for so many years! If you're running into other issues then please open a new thread for those so that we can take a look and investigate. 🙂

-Dave

I was having this issue on 2 Macs and showing the menu at icon resolved both machines. I have no need and don’t want to have the menu bar icon.

1Password prior to v8 was awesome software. I think I’ve been using 1Password since the iPhone 3G days (or close to it). It’s sad that I’m hating v8 more and more each day. It’s just filled with bugs and unreliable.

sam_doran

I've added your request that we add an option to keep 1Password running in the background, even when the menu bar icon is disabled, to the internal work item open for the issue. Thank you for the feedback. 🙂

-Dave

I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing this. I thought I was just going crazy.

I do not have 1Password in the menu bar enabled since I have long used ⌥⌘\ to bring up Quick Access, née 1Password Mini.

I have found that shortcut to be less reliable than the old 1Password Mini days. I suspected it was because 1Password was being quit because I do not have it set to be available in the Menu Bar. Now I know that is indeed the case.

Today I got into this fun situation where I would click the 1P button in the browser toolbar, it would launch 1P so I could enter the password to unlock my vault, then it would close the window and send me back to the browser, quitting 1Password and starting the cycle all over again.

I'll put 1Password in the Menu Bar (and tuck it away with Bar Tender). It would be great if 1Password could run in the background without windows open on a Menu Bar icon, though.

Thanks for making a great product, helping keep my family and friends secure!