2 week relogin is excessive

rmschne

Sorry I've not been clear here. When I said "you'll always have to enter your account password", I meant in the context of there being no other way for you to unlock your Mac. The emphasis there was on "enter your account password", rather than "always".

In your case, you should set "Lock after the computer is idle for" to Never, and turn off "Lock on sleep, screensaver, or switching users", which appears to be the case from your screenshot already.

On the General tab of Settings, you should also make sure that "Keep 1Password in the menu bar" is turned on, so that if you choose 1Password menu > Quit, or press ⌘Q (Command–Q), 1Password remains unlocked by staying in the menu bar.

You'll always need to unlock 1Password when you start up your Mac from cold and there is no way to turn this off, because your 1Password data is encrypted on disk. If your Mac wakes from sleep, 1Password will still be unlocked. You would also have to unlock 1Password if you manually locked it, or completely quit 1Password from the menu bar.

So in your case, the only situations that would mean you have to unlock 1Password are:

• starting up your Mac (instead of waking it from sleep),
• after manually locking it through the 1Password menu > Lock, or
• right-clicking 1Password in the menu bar and choosing Quit.

Those are the three absolute minimum cases where unlocking would be required using the settings I've described above.

Your Mac will use close to zero power when it's asleep, so if you want to avoid unlocking 1Password as much as possible, don't shut it down and put it to sleep instead, so that 1Password will still be unlocked when you wake it up.