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New item login field already populated
Hi, When I create a new item in the Linux, Android and iOS 1Password apps, the login field is already populated with an email address and focus is set on the password field. How to change that? I w...
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 Spacehog! 👋
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 under "Better item creation and navigation - New item creation flow": 1Password product enhancements [Winter edition]: Mobile improvements, better item creation, and even more security features
The current expected behaviour is for 1Password to automatically generate a password and fill it into the password field when you create a new item.
-Dave
Hello Dave!
Indeed the password is auto-generated and I am fine with that.
But the login is my wife email address which is used in a few items. The thing is that I use a different address email alias for each web site, so I guess her email address comes as a suggestion as it is used more often than each unique alias...
Would it be possible to define a default email address?
Thanks
Nicolas
- 1P_Dave
Thank you all for the feedback. The team is planning to allow you to choose which email address is suggested based on your default identity: Choose your default identity and credit card items
This change isn't in the stable or beta version yet but we hope to ship it as soon as possible. I know that this won't address all of the use cases discussed in this thread and I've made sure to pass along all of your comments to the team.
-Dave
I AGREE... I want a BLANK username and password so that I don't accidentally save something in 1pw that the website knows nothing about. Even "default email" or "emails" at all are problematic since usernames often are not emails.
1PW has "saved my marriage" and allowed me to give my kids far more independence AND support my aging grandparents AND occasionally streamline work projects and such. I LOVE it. BUT this pre-fill feature is really messing things up.
So much this. I was transferring credentials into 1Password, and I had to triple check each account to make sure that the pre-populated value wasn't there in place of the correct value.
It was a pretty tedious process as 1Password still pre-populated the password. I had to erase it and paste in the correct one each time.
I have exactly the same. Only he uses my private email address instead of work. It doesn't matter which safe I choose. Very annoying, I would like to choose but I would much rather have an empty email address since I often create a username and password for customers. Can this become a choice asap?
Please, please make this optional! Or take it out until you do. I use aliases for almost all my accounts and logins. I want to choose the password options on every account I make. This is really a weird (bad) decision! It could even mean a deal breaker for me.
Same here. I would prefer an empty login field like it used to be.
The automatic filling is a weird move for a password manager. It should at least be optional via a setting.
