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How do I disable 1Password guessing a username on new login item creation?
A somewhat recent update seems to have made 1Password make an assumption about the username for new login items. For a variety of reasons, it has been wrong 100% of the time for the dozen plus login ...
Hello everyone,
I'm happy to share that, with the latest update to the stable version of 1Password (8.10.78), our team has added a setting to turn off the prefilling of usernames when creating new items in the app:
You can find instructions on how to update here: How to keep 1Password up to date
Thanks again for all of the feedback and for always helping us make 1Password more useful for your needs and your workflows.
-Dave
1P_Dave
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ModeratorHello ProratedMongoose! 👋
Thank you for reaching out! When you create a new Login item, 1Password will now automatically fill your email address in the username field and generate a password. Username suggestions are based on the vault that you’re creating a new item in and are suggested based on frequency of previous use in that vault.
You can read more about this new feature on our blog: 1Password product enhancements [Winter edition]: Mobile improvements, better item creation, and even more security features
I've let the team know that you'd like an option to turn this feature off. The team plans to add ability to directly choose which email address is suggested based on your default identity. This new functionality is currently being tested in the beta version of the apps and will make it into the stable version soon.
-Dave
PB-46615313
The way the feature currently works is creating false data in my life. That’s really bad in the context of a password manager. Suggesting that users edit the entry (as wa done on Reddit) before saving is not great. Asking users to remember a workaround for something most people don’t do that often is not a good way to minimize annoyance
Some possible fixes;
- Mark fields as being guessed (and not intentionally added thorough direct user action) like done with fields extracted from webpages.
- Suggest the auto-fill on clicking into the field.
- Provide a preference to disable this feature which creates false data.
The 1Password reply to all of us who have been (almost) screaming to give us an option to disable this very annoying feature has been to tell us that this is their shiny new feature and deal with it. “Marked as solution” by themselves. It is frustrating to be ignored so badly. We don’t care if they want to keep this feature in, all we want is the ability to turn it off when it isn’t working for us. They don’t seem to care, which is mind-boggling to me. The prefilled username has been wrong 100% of the time for me too. In the latest update it now says it uses the username from the identity. Still 100% wrong 😑
I do find it insulting when a support person marks something as a solution when it clearly is a workaround at best. Workarounds are good to document. They can work for many people. But in this case it isn’t even a reasonable workaround for me.
Agree. It’s not a reasonable workaround for me too. I now chose to replace my email address in my default identity with a random word. I even thought about using a swear word :D (but didn’t). In that way 1P shows the word instead of my email address whenever I want to create a login, so that my address is not filled in by accident. Let’s hope the issue gets properly resolved soon.
- 1P_Tommy
See if this post helps https://www.1password.community/discussions/1password/before-i-submit-this-as-a-bug%E2%80%A6-user-name-prefilled-when-creating-a-new-login-/47790/replies/154413
Thank you for trying, but no it doesn’t. My post still stands. Any identity I could use would still never solve my problem with this feature. I use aliases to protect my identity.
