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DoctorBrown
July 6, 2026
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How to search and display only those where match is in Title.

  • July 6, 2026
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I have many, many items where the logon email is *@gmail.com. I also have several actual Gmail email accounts. Most times when I search for a Gmail item I am looking to view only the Gmail account items, not every item that contains gmail. I specifically titled those entries as “Gmail - Name”. Where name is what is before the @ so they could be easily found.

When I search for the string “Gmail -” (without quotes) only those items where that string appears in the Title is shown in a popup. So far so good. If I select one item in the Popup, it becomes the selected item, but 1P Search Results also displays every item that contains “Gmail” and a “-”! It doesn’t make a difference if I put the search string in quotes, same result.

I don’t see a way for the search results to only show the items with matching Titles. Am I missing something? In other search algorithms if I quote the string it will display results for the exact string, 

1Password Desktop 8.12.26

Windows 11.

3 replies

1P_Gem
1Password Employee
July 6, 2026

Hi ​@DoctorBrown, thanks for posting!

 

The search bar in the latest stable version treats special characters as separators, so instead of searching for the term as a whole, it splits it up and searches for each part individually, even if quotes are used.

 

Could you try using the Find button at the top of the item list (to the right of the All Categories dropdown) instead of the main search bar? This should get you closer to the behaviour you're looking for.

 

Alternatively, our developers have been working on adding the ability to use quotation marks to search for an exact phrase, and this is currently available in the latest beta version. This will make its way into the stable release, but if you'd like to give it a try ahead of time, you can find out how here: Use 1Password beta or nightly releases

 

Let me know how you get on, or if you have any further questions!

DoctorBrown
July 7, 2026

Ah, Yes. that is the ticket. I must say, having two search fields in one window is a little (very) confusing. How is one to know what is the difference in behavior unless one digs into the online help (few do).

1P_Gem
1Password Employee
July 8, 2026

Hi ​@DoctorBrown, glad that helped!


I can definitely understand how having two search inputs with different behaviour and no easy-access explanation isn't very intuitive. I'll pass that feedback on to the team. Hopefully the exact-phrase search landing in stable soon will help too.

 

Let me know if you need anything else!