How do I disable 1Password guessing a username on new login item creation?

Yes! This is wonderful news, thank you so much 😊 Grateful that you listened to all our concerns!

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. 

I’d like to add my voice to this topic.

I understand that the pre-filling of the username field is meant to make it easier to create new logins.

However, it doesn’t take into account that users (especially privacy- and security-conscious users, who are likely a core target group for 1Password) use different email addresses (aliases or “hide-my-email” addresses) or different usernames for different logins.

In fact, in a blog post from December 3, 2021, you even recommended using different usernames for different logins—just as passwords shouldn’t be reused.

With that in mind, this feature (which unfortunately has no opt-out option) is problematic and, for many users, doesn’t solve a problem but instead creates new ones.

Personally, every time I try to create a new login, I get a username suggestion that I’ve only used once and that doesn’t even appear in my identity entry. I’ve specifically created a default identity entry that contains neither a username nor an email address—but even that workaround doesn’t seem to work for me.

Additionally, I have to point out that several core aspects of using a password manager have unfortunately become quite frustrating recently:

• Creating new logins with automatically suggested usernames that can’t be disabled and often give unwanted suggestions
• Unwanted opening of entries in edit mode after launching the app (I believe this has been fixed)
• Moving multiple elements within an entry (fields or sections) not being saved correctly (there are several bug tickets and forum posts about this)

All of this is making the user experience increasingly frustrating for me.

For me, it’s important that upcoming updates really focus on these core aspects and bring bug fixes instead of introducing new features.

Even though it might remain just a wish, it would be great if 1Password introduced a legacy management feature that allows designated trusted individuals to access an account in the event of death (a long-standing request—Proton Pass plans to introduce such a feature in the coming months).

As a long-time and enthusiastic user of 1Password, I’m sadly a bit disheartened by the feeling that I’ve recently been forced to test more and more unfinished and immature features—or run into bugs that really shouldn’t be part of a final release that gets rolled out to what are likely millions of users.

Hi

Can you offer the possibility not to get any username suggested? I set a different username for every service I sign up for. Which means that the username proposed by 1Password is always wrong.

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.