1Password on the Mac has become EXTREMELY Sluggish

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Has 1Password on the Mac become extremely sluggish for anyone else? When I say extremely sluggish I’m meaning taking 20-30 seconds to load when starting up, 8-10 seconds in a search for the card to appear, and 10-12 seconds for “edit” to open a card. Typing is also very delayed.

I’m running an M1 MacBook Air w/ Sequoia 15.5 and ver.8.10.80 1Password for MacOS (so, both up-to-date).

Any suggestions for “repairing” my 1Password? Should I delete the app and re-download and install?

BTW, my 1Password on iOS & iPadOS works fast and fine!

Any help appreciated! Thanks!

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Yes, this has been my experience as well. You can read more about a solution at 1password.community. Basically it states that if you migrated your 1password from an Intel Mac to a M series Mac, you may experience the issue. It reads as though a reinstall is the answer, but I suggest reading the post yourself and decide what’s best.

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Here the info/discussion from the 1Password community:
https://www.1password.community/discussions/developers/mac-client-v8-10-80-released-june-10-2025-is-painfully-slow/157772

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Thanks for putting link in.

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Chiming in with my $0.02 and I can echo these sentiments. It’s been very frustrating lately. The Safari extension has been horribly slow, doesn’t load, randomly wants me to login again online, and fails to autofill passcodes.

I have 2 Mac’s and it’s doing it on both. One running macOS 26 (personal) and one on 15 (corporate). It’s frustrating as I just switched back to 1P along with Fastmail for masked email.

Don’t get me started on the 1P Fastmail integration, that works maybe 30% of the time.

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I was going to guess you’re running the Intel version as well. Either way, try a fresh copy of the application.

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Thanks! I migrated from an Intel Mac about 3 years ago. Haven’t had a problem till the last few weeks. I’ll check out what the link says & try a re-install. Thanks again!

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How often do you shut your Macs down? I find if I don’t shutdown for more than a week 1Password becomes flakey in Safari and Chrome.

It’s a reminder to shutdown, I used to every evening and have stopped for no real reason.

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My friend who uses 1Password was showing me their MacBook a couple of days ago in the office because they were experiencing this exact issue. I couldn’t see anything obviously wrong. Thanks @clausimausi for the link - I’ll pass it on to them.

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I’ve been using 1Password for 10 years and have never needed to do this or worry about my Macs uptime. I also haven’t seen much improvement from a reboot.

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I’m running same version of MacOS and 1Password on a brand new MacAir (working on setting it up today). I did go to 1Password’s web site and downloaded and installed over the top the same version … Haven’t the foggiest if what I did made any improvements because I can’t compare how it was, but I do notice no sluggishness yet, for what it’s worth.

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I was beginning to consider a delete and reinstall. It’s perfectly snappy once I have the application open, but a Cmd-\ in Safari always takes 5 seconds. I’ll definitely do it now, thanks.

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On all 4 of my Macs!

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I’m getting really close to making the switch back to Passwords with all the trouble 1P has been giving me lately.

One of the big reasons I switched as masked email support with Fastmail, and that works about 20% of the time.

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When you downloaded on top of the one you had installed did you maintain the same secret key or was there a new one?

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I did no more than just re-install on top of. Did not change any keys or login passwords.

1Password working fine here on macOS 15.5, no anti-virus, 32 GB memory, Apple M4 chip.

If not already discussed with 1Password support, might be a good idea to do so.