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snoringelephant
2 years agoFrequent Contributor
How to suppress "Use Suggested Password" dropdown?
Is there some 1Password setting/configuration combination that will prevent me from ever seeing the "Use Suggested Password" dropdown as shown here:
NOTE: I still want to be prompted with ...
1P_Dave
Moderator
11 months agoI'm sorry for the delay in responding, I've merged your threads together to keep the conversation in the same place. The behaviour that you're seeing is expected, basically the 1Password filling brain is analyzing the webpage and correctly identifying it as a sign-up page and not a login page. Because of this 1Password is offering to generate and save a new password since most users won't have created a login item for the page in question before signing up for the website.
Since a website isn't expecting existing login credentials when you visit its sign-up page, 1Password won't offer existing credentials. However, as you noted, you can fill (or copy and paste) your already saved sign-up credentials from the pop-up.
NOTE: I don't have a screenshot of a 'change password' web form, but I believe the same applies (i.e. only the 'Use Suggested Password' is shown in the change password form field even though a 1Password entry exists).
On password change pages 1Password will offer to fill your existing password into the "Current Password" field and will suggest a new random secure password in the "New Password" field.
I feel better using my approach of using the 1Password app to add/create/delete my passwords manually and using the browser integration to only perform 'retrieval' operations. This way, I feel more confident about what is being saved in 1Password.
Thank you for sharing your workflow and reasoning, I appreciate the detail that you provided and will share your experience with the team. We've recently built some improvements to how saving a password in the browser works and I'd like for you to give it a try to see if things work better for you now. Here's an example of how the process looks like on the website that you provided which would save you a significant number of steps from the process you described:
-Dave