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prime
Super Contributor
1 year 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
    8 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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Muero
New Contributor
10 months ago

Choosing a default identity in no way solves this issue, because the whole point is that we don't want a default username at all. Instead of enabling faster creation of new items, this just slows it down and creates an opportunity for incorrect information to be saved.

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prime
Super Contributor
10 months ago

I couldn’t agree with you more. We don’t want a default email address in a profile, we just want an off switch. An off switch should have been done 1st then other improvements. All this is doing is making a lot of users mad, and I feel like 1Password doesn’t see this as an issue at all. 4 months and counting.