Auto-updated to beta from production download post-install

@rdela

Are you implying I will not get migrated to production even though I have changed the release channel in the Advanced tab of Preferences from Beta to Production?

Not right away, no. Each time 1Password checks for updates, it'll look to see if there is a version which:

• is both newer than the currently installed version, and
• is in the channel set by the "Release channel" setting in Preferences > Advanced.

So, for example, if you were running 8.9.7 Beta and the release channel was set to Production, 1Password would never install 8.9.6 Production, because that breaks the first rule.

Similarly, if the release channel is set to Production, you would never be updated from 8.9.5 Production to 8.9.6 Beta, because that breaks the second rule.

Because Beta releases will almost always have a higher version number than Production releases, there might be a wait until the current Production release "overtakes" the Beta release you have installed (see the first rule above).

It's tricky to say what's happened specifically in your case, but if you'd used Migration Assistant (or something like it) to move everything wholesale from one Mac to the other, the preference file which tells 1Password which channel to use would have transferred to the other Mac, potentially leading to this situation.

The easiest solution to this problem is to change channel from Beta to Production and then wait. Then, when a newer Production version is available, 1Password will jump to using that instead. Meanwhile, it would stop receiving beta updates. That's the method we describe here:

To stop using the beta:

In Preferences > Advanced, set “Release channel” to Production. You’ll be updated to the next stable release when it’s available.

— from the article, Use 1Password beta releases — To stop using the beta, from the 1Password Support website

If you want to force the channel change now, you can do, and I can provide instructions on how to do that, but if you are able to wait, I'd strongly recommend that instead.