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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...
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
This is a real problem. I too use my own aliases, and the unintended consequence is that my wife's email is always suggested as the user name for every new item. I suspect it's because her email address is the most common user name in the vault. This assumption is a bad one.
1P_Daveplease give the users control over this, to turn this feature on/off, and if on, to set the default email address to use.
- 1P_Dave
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Thank you for the request and I'm sorry that the new feature is getting in the way. I've shared your feedback with the team internally.
The team plans to add ability to directly choose which email address is suggested based on your default identity. This new functionality is currently being tested in the beta version of the apps and will make it into the stable version soon.-Dave
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The team plans to add ability to directly choose which email address is suggested based on your default identity. This new functionality is currently being tested in the beta version of the apps and will make it into the stable version soon.
How about the ability to suggest nothing?
I feel like 1Password just wants to add a feature just to add one despite people asking to shut it off completely.
