Why does universal autofill not work everywhere?

Hello blgentry! 👋

Thank you for the question! I've merged your other comment into your original thread so that we can keep the conversation in one place. 🙂

Universal Autofill is very deliberate about where it will fill your login credentials. This is a decision made for security reasons. Just like 1Password in the browser won't fill your password into any field on website, Universal Autofill will only fill your password into a password field in an app that you've previously linked to that login or that 1Password already recognizes as being associated with that login.

In order to protect the safety of logins, since they provide access to privileged data, the team has worked hard to make sure that 1Password is never filling login credentials into the wrong app.

When I pull up quick access, find my record, navigate to autofill and press enter, shouldn't it fill my password? It's extremely confusing that it just does nothing if it does not recognize the application or context as being "valid for autofill".

If you press command-backslash to fill your credentials into the password field inside of an app, and that app isn't recognized by 1Password then you'll see Quick Access appear instead. You can use Quick Access to select the appropriate login and then choose Autofill to fill that login. 1Password will then ask if you're sure that you want to fill your login into the app and will remember the app for the future. Are there specific Mac apps, aside from the terminal apps that you mentioned, where this isn't happening?

I usually use a different terminal app. Either kitty or alacritty. Both of which are much better terminals for me personally. UA will not fill in either of those terminal programs using the command-\ key.

Currently filling your Mac login password when using a sudo command will only work in Terminal and iTerm2, that being said I've filed a feature request on your behalf with our product team.

I look forward to hearing from you.

-Dave

ref: PB-36983011