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1Password 8 keeps stealing focus on Mac
Ever since 1Password 8 came out of beta, every update causes the app to start randomly stealing focus. For example, if I'm working one window and then click into Chrome, 1Password will pop up on top. It's very disruptive and distracting. Quitting the app does not fix it, as I will still see 1Password stealing focus, there is just no window. It seems to usually be fixed by Force Quitting 1Password, but the next time it updates it starts happening again.
I also noticed that even though I changed 1Password to use the Production update channel several updates ago, it still says I'm on BETA (80800094).
1Password Version: 8.8.0
Extension Version: 2.3.4
OS Version: macOS 12.3.1 (Silicon)
- 1P_Dave
Moderator
Hello everyone,
I'm sorry for the delayed reply to this thread. If you're still running into this issue then, as a start, please update to version 8.9.15: How to keep 1Password up to date
If, after the update, you can still reproduce the issue then I'd like to ask you to send in a diagnostics report:
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-Dave
Yes - and no update from 1Password since a long long time... It's sooo annoying!
Thx for your feedback.
Sad to see that it's not only related to Safari... It's so annoying. And why on earth can't they solve this stupid issue. So sad to see, that more and more bugs are coming up. Same as the stupid different keyboard shortcuts for every browser, main app,... 1PW7 didn't had those issues.
Hi. Thx for your feedback. But for me it's v.2.4.1 within Safari (no newer version available). Or did you mean an other browser?
Hi. Any update concerning this issue? So annoying.
Newest Update of macOS and Extensions and App - Issue still there.
I've also started having this happening on 8.9.8 build 80908009 (I'm on macOS 12.6.1).
I'm seeing two problems:
- When you close the 1Password window, it reopens a few seconds later. This pushes it to the front of the Cmd+Tab stack, making it very hard to Cmd+Tab to other apps.
- Even if you don't touch the keyboard, 1Password will steal focus intermittently. If you've closed the window and it's "reopened", the app still gets focus in the menu bar even though the window doesn't appear (same as if you Cmd+Tab into it accidentally).
The combination of the two makes it really easy to accidentally activate 1P keyboard shortcuts :/
