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prime
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12 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
    7 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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1P_Dave
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11 months ago

prime

Thanks for the reply. The new workflow should speed up item creation for most people, you can read more in our new blog article under "Better item creation and navigation":

It’s also filling in an email address I haven’t used in years… probably 5 at least.

Username suggestions are based on the vault that you’re creating a new item in. Is it possible that the vault that you're creating the item in has login items that use that old email address?

Please…. Please give me the option to turn it off at least.

The team is considering a few different options to better accommodate different use cases, including Fastmail integration and I'm happy to pass along your feedback. Out of curiosity, would having 1Password automatically generate a new Fastmail masked email alias in the username field be something that you'd find useful? Or do you just prefer an option to turn the automatic suggestion off entirely?

-Dave

ref: dev/core/core#34931
ref: dev/core/core#34930