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Former Member
2 years ago

TOUCH ID - anyone else finding the 1PW Mac implementation arcane and inconsistent?

I have TouchID on my MB Air. Ideally, when I go to a web page which has a corresponding 1PW entry, I would touch the TouchID button, and 1PW would popup the password or field data, or a choice thereo...
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1P_Dave
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2 years ago

DollarbillW

Thank you for clarifying. It sounds like the behaviour that you're seeing is normal. When the 1Password window is open but locked on your screen, in order to avoid spamming users with biometric unlock prompts, 1Password will wait until you try to unlock (by clicking on the fingerprint button) before it shows the Touch ID prompt.

If you'd like, you can have 1Password stay unlocked when user switching:

  1. Open and unlock 1Password for Mac.
  2. Click on 1Password next to the  in the menu bar.
  3. Click Settings.
  4. Turn off "Lock on sleep, screensaver, or switching users".

You can read more about auto-lock here: How to set 1Password to lock automatically

-Dave