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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
For security reasons, it's best practice to have a unique username and password for each account,. That way, if one account is compromised, no part of credentials can be used to gain access to another account.
I even create a unique email for each account so that if that address is somehow leaked, it is only compromising one account.
Another reason to not pre-populate the password is for users transferring credentials from another password manager into 1password by hand. When you are copying and passing information from one application to the other applications like I am doing this moment, pre-populated values get in the way and increase the possibility that the wrong values for the account will in 1Password.
I love 1Password, but please don't try to second-guess the user. They know what they want to do, so make it easy for them to do it!
- 1P_Dave
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Thanks for sharing your use case. You can now turn off username guessing if you wish, see my post from yesterday.
Is there a specific reason why you're migrating passwords manually? 1Password has the ability to import passwords from a variety of password managers, or by using a CSV file: Move your data from other applications to 1Password
-Dave
Yep. I only want to migrate a select few passwords. I think most methods are all or nothing approaches.
