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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
Echoing requests to make this opt-in or have an account-wide Web UI toggle to disable.
Personally frustrated, professionally frustrated, a good proportion of ~150 colleagues frustrated.
This isn't a positive change.
xioso far it’s “they are working on improving it”. We don’t want it improved, we want an off switch. I have people who I recommend 1Password too going to other password managers because of this, and making me look bad.
A person on Reddit also left 1Password because of this. My wife wants to move also, but for now, I convinced her just her work stuff and we will give it until a month or 2 before our renewal.
I had to set up a family account on Bitwarden for my mom and in-laws because they are done with this feature. The fun part, I’m the one who has to fix this all with my family and friends who I recommend this too.
prime without a doubt there’s a high level of frustration, we’ve encouraged people to use password managers so much that it’s become a part of their lifestyle.
The unfortunate reality is no matter how secure 1Password may be, there’s an expectation of convenience and usability; this will be the likely thinking for people considering migrating away.
1Password should be rolling this back and improving it as an optional feature, it shouldn’t be that difficult for their developers to achieve.
