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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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Ben
Frequent Contributor
11 months ago

I’m having the same issue, but it’s more to do with the fact that I’ve changed my email address rather than anything to do with the integration referred to above.

I understand the benefit in having it automatically populate however having the ability to set the username would be much more useful. Ended up accidentally creating an account with the wrong email address a few times without noticing.