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System
Super Contributor
7 months ago

Integrate 1P in the native macOS password manager

This discussion was created from comments split from: Issues with 1Password with Profiles in Safari.
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JohnIT
Occasional Contributor
7 months ago

Hi 1P_Dave

Yes, I am also affected by this issue described in the previous thread from where this was split. It seems that if you are actively using multiple profiles in Safari, 1Password extensions have issues communicating with the main 1P macOS app. And there are multiple scenarios that I found as a workaround:

  1. 1Password is locked and I click on the macOS 1P app to unlock. In this situation, the 1P extensions will not unlock and basically lose connection to the main app. I then click on the 1P extension in one of the profiles which will show an error that asks for the extension to reload, after which it will start working but only on the profile I do this operation. The other profile will still have a locked 1P extension

  2. 1Password is locked and I click on the 1P extension in one of the profiles. In this situation, the 1P extension in that profile unlocks as well as the main 1P macOS app, but the second profile still has a locked 1P extension.

  3. 1Password is locked and I close Safari completely and open it back up. In this situation both profiles have a working 1P extension and everything works just fine until 1Password locks again.

Most of the time, because of the issue described above, I gave up on using the 1P Safari extensions and just keep them "dead", and use Universal Autofill for passwords. But as mentioned by others in the previous thread, this does not work for passkeys and there's no way of using passkeys without functioning extensions.

That's why I mentioned my previous request asking for 1Password to adopt the macOS native password API, which will mean that I can use the app itself for passkeys. This has the added benefit of supporting passkeys in other macOS apps as well, not only for webpages in browsers.