How to Uninstall 1Password on Mac in 2026: Manual and Automatic

To uninstall 1Password on a Mac, export your vault first if you're leaving for good, quit it from the menu bar icon, drag 1Password from Applications to the Trash, then delete its leftover folders in ~/Library (Application Support, Preferences, Containers and Group Containers). Remove the browser extension separately. Uninstalling doesn't touch your 1Password account: your vaults stay on 1Password.com until you delete the account.

Leaving a password manager feels riskier than leaving most apps, because the thing you're deleting is the thing that remembers how to get into everything else. The order matters more than the clicks. This guide covers exporting first, the manual uninstall, an automatic option, the Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Brave extensions, the command-line tool, moving to Apple's Passwords app, and closing the account itself.

What happens to your passwords when you uninstall 1Password?

Removing the 1Password app from your Mac deletes only the copy on that Mac. Your account, and every item in it, stays on 1Password's servers and on your other devices until you cancel or delete the account. The catch is the local data: 1Password's uninstall guide warns that cleaning out the leftover files removes all local 1Password data on the Mac, including backups, so check you can reach your items on another device or at 1Password.com before you start.

If you're leaving 1Password for good, export your vault first. Once the account is deleted, there's nothing left to sign in to. When I cleared 1Password off an old MacBook before passing it on, I did the export before anything else, then signed in to 1Password.com in a browser to confirm my items were still there. Only then did I start dragging things to the Trash.

How to export your 1Password data on a Mac

In 1Password 8 for Mac, the export lives in the menu bar under File > Export. 1Password's export guide walks through it in five steps:

1. Open and unlock 1Password.
2. Choose File > Export in the menu bar, then pick the account you want to export.
3. Enter your account password (or sign in with your identity provider if you unlock with SSO).
4. Choose 1PUX or CSV, then select Export Data.
5. Pick a save location and select Open.

Two details trip up a lot of exports. Neither format is encrypted: 1Password says exported files are stored in plain text, and it recommends deleting them when you're done rather than emailing them or putting them in cloud storage. And passkeys don't come out of the desktop app at all. 1Password's export page says passkeys can be exported only from 1Password for iPhone and Android, so on a Mac you'll need to set new passkeys up on each site.

I save the export to a USB drive, never to Downloads or a synced Desktop, and delete it as soon as the import into the new app is done. A plain-text file holding every password you own is the one file you don't want iCloud quietly backing up.

How to uninstall 1Password manually on a Mac

The manual uninstall has two parts: remove the app, then remove the files it leaves in your Library folder. Removing the app takes under a minute and follows 1Password's own instructions:

1. Click the 1Password icon in the menu bar and choose Quit. In 1Password 7, choose Quit 1Password Completely.
2. Open Finder and click Applications in the sidebar.
3. Drag 1Password to the Trash.

If macOS says the app is still in use, something is still running. Apple's uninstall guide suggests closing the app, and if that doesn't work, restarting the Mac (or starting in safe mode) and trying again. Emptying the Trash is what makes the deletion final; until then you can select the app in the Trash and choose File > Put Back.

How to delete 1Password's leftover files on Mac

Dragging 1Password to the Trash leaves its settings, caches and local data behind in your user Library. To remove them, open each folder below with Go > Go to Folder in Finder (or press Shift-Command-G), paste the path, press Return and move the matching items to the Trash. The folder names come from 1Password's uninstall guide:

1. ~/Library/Application Support/: move any folders with "1Password" in the name to the Trash (for example, 1Password 4).
2. ~/Library/Preferences/: move any files with "com.agilebits" or "com.1password" in the name (for example, com.agilebits.onepassword4.plist).
3. ~/Library/Containers/: move any folders with "com.agilebits" or "1Password" in the name (for example, 2BUA8C4S2C.com.agilebits.onepassword-osx-helper).
4. ~/Library/Group Containers/: move the 2BUA8C4S2C.com.agilebits or 2BUA8C4S2C.com.1password folder. If Finder says it can't find the folder, skip this step.
5. Empty the Trash and restart your Mac.

If you search Finder for "1Password" instead of opening these folders, you'll also turn up exports, PDFs and screenshots that happen to have the name in them, so stick to the four paths above.

How to remove 1Password automatically

An uninstaller app hunts down an app's leftover files for you, which spares you the trip through each Library folder. AppCleaner, a small free Mac app (the developer asks for donations), is the simplest: drag 1Password onto its window, review the list of related files it finds, and click to delete them. Version 3.7 runs on macOS 15 and later.

1. Quit 1Password from the menu bar first.
2. Open AppCleaner and drag 1Password from Applications onto its window.
3. Read the file list before you delete anything. Untick anything named "1Password for Safari" or "com.1password.safari" if you'll remove the Safari extension separately, and anything that's clearly yours, such as an export file.
4. Click AppCleaner's remove button, then empty the Trash and restart.

If you installed 1Password with Homebrew, remove it the same way it came in. The 1Password cask is named 1password, and Homebrew's standard uninstall command takes the app out of Applications. It doesn't clean the Library folders, so do the leftover-file steps above afterward.

brew uninstall --cask 1password

My view: for one app, the manual route is quick enough that an uninstaller doesn't save much, and 1Password's guide is written around the manual steps. Where an uninstaller earns its place is when you're clearing out several apps at once. Either way, the export comes first, because an uninstaller can't tell a folder you need from one you don't.

How to remove the 1Password extension from your browsers

The browser extension is a separate install, so uninstalling the Mac app leaves it in place. These steps are from 1Password's browser removal guide.

Safari

1. Choose Safari > Settings in the menu bar.
2. Click Extensions, select 1Password for Safari and click Uninstall.
3. Click Show in Finder, then move 1Password for Safari to the Trash and empty it.
4. Back in Safari, choose Safari > Clear History, pick All History and click Clear History.

Clearing all history also clears other browsing data, so 1Password's guide suggests saving anything important first. Skip the last step if all you want is the extension gone.

Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Brave

• Chrome: Chrome menu > Extensions > Manage Extensions, find 1Password, click Remove.
• Firefox: Firefox menu > Add-ons and Themes, open 1Password's options menu, choose Remove.
• Edge: Edge menu > Extensions, click the three dots beside 1Password, choose Remove from Microsoft Edge.
• Brave: Brave menu > Extensions, find 1Password, click Remove.

If you use Chrome profiles, each profile has its own extensions, so repeat the removal in every profile you've signed in to. I forgot a second work profile once and kept getting 1Password's fill prompt there weeks after I thought it was gone.

Check login items for anything 1Password left behind

Login items are the apps and helpers macOS opens when you sign in, and one more place a removed app can leave a trace. Open System Settings > General > Login Items & Extensions (only an administrator of the Mac can change these). Under Open at Login, select any 1Password entry and click the minus button to remove it. Apple's login items guide notes that a yellow triangle beside an item means it was moved or deleted, which is exactly what a leftover from a removed app looks like.

How to uninstall the 1Password CLI on Mac

The 1Password command-line tool (op) is a separate install from the Mac app, used mostly by developers. 1Password's CLI docs say to remove your account details first, then the tool. If you might use the CLI again, note your Secret Key and account password first, since forgetting the account removes its details from this Mac.

op account forget --all
brew uninstall 1password-cli

If you installed it by hand rather than with Homebrew, the docs give rm /usr/local/bin/op instead of the brew command. The account details live in a config file at ~/.op/config, ~/.config/op/config or ~/.config/.op/config; accounts you signed in to through the desktop app integration aren't stored there.

How to move your 1Password logins to Apple's Passwords app

Apple's Passwords app on the Mac imports logins from a CSV file, so the CSV export from 1Password is the one to use. Apple's import guide lists the steps:

1. Export a CSV from 1Password (see above).
2. Open Passwords on your Mac.
3. Choose File > Import Passwords from File.
4. Click Choose File, select the CSV and click Import.
5. When it finishes, use the Delete option Apple offers to remove the CSV file.

Imported passwords don't overwrite ones already in Passwords, and you can review any that didn't come across. Before I deleted 1Password from my work Mac, I signed in to the few accounts I use every day (email, bank, the company admin panel) using only the Passwords app. Those are the logins that hurt most if something didn't come across. Anything that lived only in 1PUX, such as secure notes or custom fields, needs copying across by hand. For new accounts from here on, our guide to strong passwords on a Mac covers letting Safari and Passwords generate them.

How to cancel or delete your 1Password account

Uninstalling stops nothing on the billing side. You have three choices, all on 1Password's account page: cancel the subscription and keep the data for later, freeze the account, or delete it permanently.

To delete an individual account, sign in at 1Password.com, select your name in the top right, choose Manage Account and scroll down to Permanently Delete Account. For a family or team account, only the organizer, owner or someone with the delete permission can do it, from Settings, and it erases the information for everyone in the account. Business accounts go through 1Password Support.

• After deletion you can't sign in to 1Password.com or the apps.
• Your information is permanently deleted 30 days later. Within those 30 days, 1Password says an individual account (or one you own or organize) may be restored if you contact support.
• If you paid through the App Store, the subscription is billed by Apple. Cancel it from the App Store app on your Mac: click your name, click your name again, choose Subscriptions, pick 1Password and click Cancel Subscription, per Apple's subscription guide.

If you share a family account, tell the others before you delete it. Deleting a family account erases everyone's items, not just yours, so give the others time to export first.

Removing 1Password from iPhone and iPad

Deleting the 1Password app from a phone or tablet removes the 1Password data stored on that device, so 1Password's uninstall guide again says to confirm you can reach your items elsewhere first. Then delete the app from the Home Screen as you would any other. If you rely on passkeys, export from the phone before you delete the app there, because 1Password lets you export passkeys only from its iPhone and Android apps.

A quick checklist before you call it done

• Exported a 1PUX backup and, if switching, a CSV, stored offline.
• Signed in to your most-used accounts with the new password manager.
• Quit 1Password and moved it from Applications to the Trash.
• Cleared the four ~/Library folders, then emptied the Trash and restarted.
• Removed the extension from every browser and every Chrome profile.
• Checked Login Items & Extensions for anything left over.
• Canceled, froze or deleted the account, and canceled any App Store subscription.
• Deleted the export files once you no longer need them.

For other apps that hang on after you've removed them, our guide to removing My Inbox Helper from a Mac walks through the same login-item and browser checks. And if you changed passwords during the move, updating an email password on Mac covers getting Mail and Outlook to stop asking.