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timfin
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5 hours ago

Feature request: Path-aware login suggestions for multiple credentials on the same domain

I'd like to file a feature request and share a use case where the current "domain-only" matching makes day-to-day autofill noticeably worse, and to ask whether path-aware matching could be reconsidered as an opt-in option

Up front: I can see from a quick search that this is clearly a much-requested feature, with threads going back what feels like several presidential administrations. Normally I'd just add a thumbs-up to the canonical request rather than start a new thread - but without a feature-request tracker (more on that at the end), I genuinely couldn't tell which of the many overlapping discussions is the "live" one the team is actually watching, vs. the ones now being slowly reclaimed by the forum equivalent of moss. So I'm posting fresh rather than guessing wrong and shouting into a tomb. Apologies for the duplication; please feel free to merge this into whichever discussion is currently canonical.

## The situation

I have multiple distinct logins on the same domain, distinguished only by path. For example:

- https://[example.com]/[teamA]/login -> Login A

- https://[example.com]/[teamB]/login -> Login B

- https://[example.com]/[admin]/login -> Login C

Because 1Password matches on eTLD+1 and ignores the path for suggestions, all three credentials surface every time I land on any of these pages. There is no way to tell 1Password "when the URL path starts with /teamA, prefer Login A," which means every login attempt is a small multiple-choice quiz I am demonstrably bad at.

## Why this matters

The "pick from a list" flow is fine for an occasional ambiguity, but in this scenario it happens on every single login. I autofill the wrong credential maybe 1 in 3 times, which - and I cannot stress this enough - triggers the account lockout flow on at least one of these systems. My password manager and I are, in effect, collaborating to lock me out of my own accounts. Favoriting helps for exactly one of them; the others remain a coin flip with worse odds.

I understand from past forum threads that 1Password removed path matching some years ago because it complicated things for typical users, and that the team is (rightly) conservative about adding options. I'm not asking for the old behavior back as a default - I'm asking whether a per-item, opt-in path constraint could fit the existing model:

- Today's "Fill anywhere on this website" -> unchanged default

- Today's "Only fill on this exact host" -> already path-blind

- New: "Only fill when URL path starts with ..." (per Website entry)

That mirrors the existing exact-host option, just one level deeper. No regex, no globs, no Turing-complete URL DSL - just a path-prefix string on the Website field when the user explicitly opts in. Items without the new option behave exactly as they do today, so there's no impact on users who don't need this.

## Alternatives I've tried

- Favoriting: only helps one of N items.

- Exact-host: doesn't help because the host is identical.

- Splitting into separate Website entries: doesn't help because the path is dropped from matching.

- Open-and-fill from the 1Password app: works, but defeats the purpose of an in-browser password manager for daily logins - at that point I'm essentially using 1Password as a fancy bookmarks menu.

## A small meta note

This connects to the situation I described at the top. I understand the team's reasoning for not running a formal voting system - that vote counts don't capture the "why" behind a request, and that discussion surfaces better signal. Both of those things are true. But the current setup also means there's no way for users with the same underlying problem to converge on a single canonical request, no visible signal of how widespread an issue is, and no acknowledgement loop telling requesters whether something is even on the radar. The current incentive structure rewards starting yet another duplicate thread (hi!) over piling onto an older one nobody can confirm is still being read. A lightweight feature-request tracker - even one without public vote counts, if that's the concern - would make it easier for users like me to contribute signal without worrying we're duplicating a thread buried three pages deep. Worth considering alongside the substantive request above.

Happy to discuss the use case further or test a beta if this is something the team is open to exploring. Thanks for considering it, and apologies again to whichever poor soul at 1Password has to read the seventeenth version of this request.

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  • Please also support subdomains.

    Let's say I have the following subdomains.
    aaa.company.com
    bbb.company.com
    ccc.company.com

    And I go to bbb.company.com

    The login for bbb.company.com should be first along with the other logins for that main domain company.com.

    But please check the subdomain, then the full path in order to sort the suggestions.