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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's avatar
    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

aurora9SATISFY's avatar
aurora9SATISFY
New Contributor
7 months ago

This is great, thankyou. Will this setting work it's way into the mobile apps (and browser extensions) too at some point or is this an account wide flag i.e. once set somewhere it applies everywhere/across all apps?

Cheers

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1P_Dave
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7 months ago

aurora9SATISFY​ 

Thanks for the question! The setting will be available for the mobile apps as well, you'll have the choice to enable or disable the feature on each device where you're using 1Password. 

-Dave

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    aurora9SATISFY
    New Contributor
    7 months ago

    Great thanks. 

     

    It's really good to see the community can influence the direction of the product. 

     

    Cheers again