Locking and unlocking

While Vallkey is unlocked, your vault’s keys are in the app’s memory. Locking wipes them.

When Vallkey locks

Where	It locks
Browser extension	When you click Lock, when your screen locks, when the browser closes, and after the time you choose without keyboard or mouse input
iPhone, iPad and Android	When you lock it, and after the time you choose away from the app
Mac	When the Mac sleeps, when its screen locks, and after the time you choose behind other apps
Windows	When the computer wakes from sleep, and after the time you choose
Linux	When the computer sleeps or its screen locks, and after the time you choose
Web vault	After the time you choose, and whenever you reload or close the tab

Choose the time under Account: 5, 15 or 60 minutes, or never. It’s 15 minutes until you change it, and it’s set for each device.

In Safari, the extension locks when Vallkey goes unused for that time, since Safari doesn’t tell extensions when the screen locks.

Unlocking

• Your master password always works.
• Your face or finger, once you turn it on under Account on that device: Face ID, Touch ID, Android biometrics or Windows Hello.
• The desktop app, for a paired browser: see Unlocking the browser with the desktop app.

If you enroll a new face or finger on a device, Vallkey asks for your master password once, then biometrics work again when you turn them back on.

What you copy

Whatever you copy from Vallkey is cleared from the clipboard after 90 seconds, and when Vallkey locks, unless you’ve copied something else since. The web vault can’t do this, so clear what you copy there yourself.

Clipboard histories, such as the one in Windows, keep their own copy, which Vallkey can’t clear.

While locked

A locked browser extension still shows its menu under sign-in fields, offering to unlock. On your phone, AutoFill opens the vault with your face or finger for one fill, and the app stays locked.