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prime
Dedicated Contributor
11 months ago
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Request: Turn off username guessing in the apps [RESOLVED]

When I go to create a new login, the user name is prefilled with an email address I haven’t used in years. This shouldn’t have any email address, especially when I use Fastmail’s masked emails. I hop...
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    1P_Dave
    6 months ago

    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

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prime
Dedicated Contributor
10 months ago

1P_Davethis is now on Reddit, and someone said they are movingbecause of it. Looking at this person other post, they use SimpleLogin, so this feature is 100% useless for them if you do something with Fastmail. 

I definitely going to do something for my mom, because this is really driving her nuts. I am looking for options now for her, to have an 80 something year old lady to change their ways of making logins (using the extension) because you guys added this feature is ridiculous. 

My renewal is in October. I’m not leaving yet, but I am also not going to manage 2 password managers for my family for very long.