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ProratedMongoose
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3 months ago
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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 ...
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  • 1P_Dave's avatar
    1P_Dave
    16 days ago

    Hello folks,

    I wanted to provide an update here where everyone in this thread can see it. As discussed, 1Password will automatically fill your email address in the username field and generate a password so that you can create new items faster. Username suggestions are based on the vault that you’re creating a new item in and are suggested based on previous use. 

    In the last month (March 2025) the team has made an improvement to the feature, you can now configure a default identity and always have the email address of that default identity be suggested when creating a new item: Choose your default identity and credit card items

    The team will continue to iterate further based on everyone's feedback and are looking into adding a setting to turn off username suggestions in the future. We'll continue to keep the community updated on new developments. Thanks again for all of the feedback! 

    -Dave

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1P_Dave
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16 days ago

Hello folks,

I wanted to provide an update here where everyone in this thread can see it. As discussed, 1Password will automatically fill your email address in the username field and generate a password so that you can create new items faster. Username suggestions are based on the vault that you’re creating a new item in and are suggested based on previous use. 

In the last month (March 2025) the team has made an improvement to the feature, you can now configure a default identity and always have the email address of that default identity be suggested when creating a new item: Choose your default identity and credit card items

The team will continue to iterate further based on everyone's feedback and are looking into adding a setting to turn off username suggestions in the future. We'll continue to keep the community updated on new developments. Thanks again for all of the feedback! 

-Dave

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    ProratedMongoose
    New Contributor
    16 days ago

    What has been implemented is possibly a solution for some, but it is at best a bad workaround for me. I could create a default identity with a bogus email address but that means it is easy to forget that I need to remove that before saving and if I don’t I once again have false information in my password manager and that is very bad. Plus it means I can’t make use the default identity system in the ways it is meant to be able to be used. 

    To repeat my request in a different way; How do I disable 1Password from making assumptions that cause erroneous data to be put into something it’s vital never has false information in it. 

    • 1P_Dave's avatar
      1P_Dave
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      15 days ago

      ProratedMongoose​ 

      Thank you for the continued feedback. There isn't currently a way to turn off username suggestions, but the team is looking into adding such an option in the future. 

      -Dave