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prime
Dedicated Contributor
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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prime
Dedicated Contributor
11 months ago

1P_Dave

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?

I found 1 out of 357 items. I also just moved it to the archive.

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.
Thank you

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?

No, because I make up my own aliases and have fun. For instance; for Subway I can have footlong@mydomain.com, Costco I have bigstore@mydomain.com, and so on. Since I got my domain, I rarely use the Masked Emails anymore.

Or do you just prefer an option to turn the automatic suggestion off entirely?
Yes, I would like an option to turn it off. There are some features I don’t use, but as long as it’s not in my way, I don’t care. This one is definitely in my way.