Passkey/Back up Query

Hello aligla193! 👋

Thank you for the feedback! When you save a passkey into 1Password that passkey immediately becomes available on all of your devices where you have 1Password installed. If you save a passkey in 1Password on one device, you can sign in using that same passkey on a different device as long as you have 1Password installed on that device.

1Password maintains an offline cache of your passwords so that you retain access to them even if you don't have internet access. Passkeys are used for authentication and that usually requires internet access so that the website or app that you're signing into can contact the server on its end.

Your 1Password membership backs up all of your passwords, passkeys, and other items to your 1Password account where it is replicated across redundant copies on our end. Item history is kept so that you can restore previous versions of items if you accidentally edit or delete an item:

• View and restore previous versions of items
• 1Password backups

You're correct that exports aren't generally considered backups since they're not encrypted and they lack several of the features that a true backup would have such as versioning. You wrote:

its just another fail safe in case the internet isn't available and there is no access to devices.

If you have no access to any devices and you have no internet access then would a 1PUX export be useful in that scenario? You would need to install 1Password on a device in order to import the 1PUX file and the installer would require internet access to download the app, then you would need internet access to sign into your 1Password account using the app on that device before you could import the 1PUX file.

-Dave