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1Password dropdown masks macOS autofill for SMS verification codes
Many websites and services require verification with a code sent by text message. macOS has a nice feature that offers to auto-fill the code from the Messages app. Normally, it appears as a drop-do...
Thanks, Dave, but for me getting this specific page fixed would not be a good use of your developers’ time. I chose it as an arbitrary illustration, not because that site is especially important to me.
I see this situation on many different pages, so if it’s going to be fixed, a one-off approach would be impractical. What’s needed, in my opinion, is the ability for 1P to determine from context or from the site’s coding what kind of entry is being asked for. Since any human could tell at a glance that it’s not a prompt for a user id or password, it doesn’t seem insurmountable for that to happen in software.
Even better though, Apple itself usually “knows” what kind of field it is, as we know because it waits for incoming texts and fills in the confirm codes automatically. Developers can enable this functionality following instructions at an Apple Developer site called “Enabling AutoFill for domain-bound SMS codes”
(Your system wouldn’t let me post the actual link because some tags there made it uncomfortable.)
So, it shouldn’t be hard for 1P to recognize the situation and get out of the way.
1P_Dave
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ModeratorThanks for the reply. 1Password has a filling brain that it uses to identify whether a field should be filled or not. It looks like you're running into a few different cases where the filling brain is identifying a field as something that 1Password can fill when it shouldn't be.
If you can send in the page structure of one of the instances where you're running into this issue then our development team can see what went wrong and improve the filling brain for that specific website and for other sites where the filling brain is misidentifying fields in a similar way.
-Dave
