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1Password - Remove Old Account Login Options

Overview

1Password stores previous logged in accounts so you can easily sign back in. However, if you leave an organization those logins remain. These instructions allow you to clean up the available accounts on the Account Management screen.

Instructions

As a convenience feature, to make signing into the 1Password apps across multiple Apple devices easier, if you've set up your device with an Apple ID and have iCloud Keychain enabled (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204085), then when you sign into a 1Password membership inside one of our apps for Mac or iOS, the app will write some of your sign-in details to your encrypted iCloud storage. Then, if you go to sign into an account on a different Apple device that's set up with the same Apple ID and iCloud Keychain, the 1Password app there will find the account details stored in iCloud, and will present it as a list of found accounts to make signing into them easier.

If you have an account being found in the details stored in iCloud, and you no longer want that account to show in the list of found accounts, you can remove the data from iCloud keychain using a Mac set up with that same Apple ID as follows:

- On the Mac, launch the "Keychain Access" utility that comes with macOS
- In the search box in the upper-right corner of the app, search for "com.agilebits.onepassword.b5Credentials" (without the quotation marks)
- Each search result you see is one account's details that are stored in iCloud Keychain

You can delete all of those entries if you want to remove all of the account credentials stored in iCloud Keychain (this won't impact the 1Password app or your account); if you only want to remove the one specific set of credentials, follow the steps below:

- Double-click on the entry you want to examine
- Tick the "Show password" box at the bottom of the Attributes tab, and enter your macOS user password when prompted
- The contents of the box will show the stored account details - you can click into the box and use the up and down keys on your keyboard to see all of the details
- When you have identified the entry that relates to the specific membership you no longer want to have recorded in iCloud Keychain, delete that one com.agilebits.onepassword.b5Credentials entry
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