Possible bug: When adding a credit card, the "number" field doesn't accept macOS dictation

stevenjklein

In the New Item window, when adding a credit card, I can use macOS' Dictation feature to fill in the fields except the one place where it would be most useful.

Some background info:
I'm a touch typist; I don't look at the keyboard while I'm typing, but I do need look at the screen to confirm that I'm not making any errors. That's I'm typing something I already know (like my name or address), and also good for when I'm composing some original text.

But if I'm trying to get some data from hard copy into my Mac, I like to use macOS Dictation. This allows me to look at the hard copy and dictate, confident that my text will appear correctly on screen. (Dictation sometimes introduces errors, but when I'm just dictating digits, I've found it to be 100% accurate.)

A credit card is an obvious example. I can turn on Dictation, the look at my credit card and read the number aloud.

The problem:
A few minutes ago I added a new credit card in 1Password. I want to use dictation to fill in the number in the "number" field, but it didn't work.Out of curiosity, I tried using dictation in other fields, like the item "title" field, and the "cardholder name" field, and it worked fine.

So you're apparently doing something special with that field that blocks (perhaps unintentionally) macOS Dictation. (It's also blocked for the "verification number" field, but that's okay, because after reading a 3-digit number from my card, I can remember it long enough to type it in manually.)

So, the 1Password app on my Mac allows dictation in all the fields where I don't need it, and blocks it only in that field where I most want to use it!

(Dictation probably also does an end-run around malware that captures keyboard input, a security benefit that's lost when I'm forced to use the keyboard. But let's hope I don't have malware on my Mac!)

Any chance this can get fixed?

I'm using:

• 1Password for Mac 8.10.7 (81007041), and
• macOS 12.6.6 (21G646)

I look forward to replies from the Agile folks, or any members of this support community.

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OS Version: macOS 12.6.6
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Dave_1P

Hello @stevenjklein! 👋

Thank you for reaching out! 1Password is indeed doing something special to certain fields: to protect data that you type into 1Password we use a macOS technology called Secure Input to protect that data. Secure Input is used to make sure that the sensitive information that you type into 1Password is secure and won't be intercepted by other applications.

Secure Input isn't activated in username, text, address, or notes fields but it is activated in password, credit card number, and other sensitive fields.

When Secure Input is invoked for a certain field other apps won't be able to see what you type into that field and you won't be able to use other services, such as Dictation, to input into these fields since those other services can't "see" the fields in the first place. As a workaround, if you do want to use dictation, you can dictate the characters into another app like a text editor and then copy and paste the characters into the 1Password app.

I hope that helps! 🙂

-Dave