Bitwarden locking Secure Input on Mac [re-open]

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Previous thread from other community member

It looks like when Bitwarden desktop on Mac is open but not active and/or focused, it can log a user out and put their cursor in the Bitwarden password field, which interferes with programs that use keyboard shortcuts. Also have trouble if the cursor is in the search field of Bitwarden, but that part might have been user error. I can see secure input disabling necessarily if we leave the cursor in the search field; however, when a user is automatically logged out, I believe we should have some way of keeping the cursor out of the password field, even if it means an extra tab later when we return to Bitwarden to login.

I start Bitwarden, login, and use and forget about it for some number of minutes. Eventually, Keyboard Maestro or a text expander stop working. And when I go back to Bitwarden, I see the cursor is in the password field (on BW vault login screen).

It may be that preventing the cursor from returning to the password field, or overlaying some elegant “click to enter password” button over the field and deactivating it, may resolve this behavior.

System & Settings:

macOS Sequoia 15.7.3*, Bitwarden Version 2025.12.0^

Vault Timeout is set to On System Idle and Timeout Action is set to Lock. Unlock with PIN and Unlock with Touch ID are disabled.

  • *macOS Sequoia 15.7.4
  • ^Version 2026.2.1
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In the other thread, you said that the issue was fixed in January. Was the problem fixed, and later re-appeared? Did the problem only re-appear starting with version 2026.2.1?

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Hey, good news–fixed as of Version 2026.3.1!

I can’t be sure of the timeline because I may have adjusted my timeout settings at a point. One detail I can give, re:

No extra tab needed–cursor stays in the password field, but seems Bitwarden is properly releasing control of the input back to the operating system. (Or something, but I’m apparently no good at my guessing since the delivered solution was perfectly elegant versus my workaround suggestions.)

Thanks @grb , thanks Bitwarden team!

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hmmmm…..

Secure Input just locked up again–could tell because I was inserting odd characters in text forms when I was trying to press Keyboard Maestro hotkeys. Quit Bitwarden (where my cursor was in the password field), and my Keyboard Maestro hotkey worked.

Will monitor w/o changing settings.

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