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prime
Super Contributor
1 year ago
Solved

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
    10 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
Super Contributor
1 year ago

I am on beta and it now fills a username. There are articles all over the internet why it’s a bad idea to reuse a username. Why does anything need to be filled…. At all? There are 2 separate posts on Reddit about people not linking this. 
Also1P_Dave how is this showing “Solved” when it’s not?

I am moving my mom and in-laws to Bitwarden in the next few weeks because of this. The family account is created and I just need meet up with them to help them. Why on earth you’re not giving us the option to shut this off is beyond me.