Why passkey login to 1Password?

rallyn1password

Thank you for the reply. It's important to be aware that your passkey, stored in iCloud Keychain, is by itself not enough to add your 1Password account to a new device. You'll always need to perform an additional step: confirming the sign in from an existing trusted device.

In the worst case scenario of losing all my devices, and my email password is in 1Password, and you require me to have access to my email to recover my 1Password access, then I have just been locked out out of the platform, correct?

We recommend adding several trusted devices to your passkey account. A trusted device can be used to gain access to your account, or to grant access to another device should you lose one. This will allow each of your trusted devices to receive verification codes if you lose access on one of your devices, or need to sign in on a new one.

You're correct that your recovery code by itself is not enough to recover access to your 1Password account. You’ll also need access to your email address to receive a verification code. It's unlikely that you would lose access to all of your devices where you have access to your email at the same time.

That being said, if you do end up in a situation where you don’t have access to your email address on any of your devices then you can reach out to your email service provider for help with resetting the password for your email account. Once you’ve regained access to your email account, you’ll be able to use your recovery code to recover access to your 1Password account.

I appreciate the information, but at this point, I will not be allowing anyone in my family group / friends to use Passkey login to 1Password. Having to know a login name, password and security key is at least dependable, reliable, secure, and easy to explain and share between trusted users. Passkey login to 1Password seems to be none of those.

Passkey unlock for 1Password is currently in beta and you and your family/friends can certainly choose not to join the beta and just stick with your existing accounts. As the beta progresses we hope to share more regarding things like account recovery for family accounts and more. 🙂

-Dave