Suggesting user's email address when creating new login

ollifi

When I need to create a new Login manually in the 1Password iOS app, I usually need to enter my e-mail address to the username/e-mail field. It'd be extremely helpful if the app could suggest the e-mail in the field, perhaps after typing few characters of it or maybe immediately when the field is focused. The user could enter their e-mail in 1Pw settings or the e-mail could be grabbed from "me" item in user's address book (requires asking user permission, however).

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AGAlumB

@ollifi: That would read require 1Password to know something about you, and prompting for access to user data isn't something that most people want either. Additionally, many logins don't use an email address as a username, so we'd have to delete it manually each time in those cases. And finally, it's always much better (and easier) to save a new login for a site (rather than creating one by hand). This also allows 1Password to save additional information from the form (even better using the 1Password browser extension on the computer, if that is an option for you). Just try these steps:

1. Navigate to the website
2. Enter your login credentials
3. Tap the 'key' icon (or the Share button, to use the extension in Safari) to bring up the login menu
4. Tap + New Login
5. Tap Save
6. Close the webpage and tap the URL in your new login item to have 1Password fill it
7. Tap the "Sign in"/"Log in" button to submit the form

We can certainly consider various ways of making the login creator more intelligent, but I hope this helps in the mean time. Let me know if you have any other questions! :)

ref: OPI-2395

ollifi

@brenty
Thanks for the reply. I just checked and 77 of my 166 logins use e-mail as username :) That's almost a half of them.

Perhaps prefilling the e-mail would be a bad idea, but I'd love if 1Password could suggest it after typing few characters of it.

I'd always want to save the login, but unfortunately, not all apps yet support you. So every time I manually need to create a login, I feel frustrated about having to type the e-mail address :) If the e-mail field could be in the advanced settings, I think it wouldn't bother people so much. Then people wanting to use it could type their e-mail address there.

nmott

@ollifi thanks for the suggestion. Perhaps an alternate way to think of it is that more than half of your logins don't use your email for the username ;) Depends on whether you're an email address-half-full or half-empty kind of person, I guess ;)

In all seriousness, we do appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with us. I don't know if or when this will change, for the reasons brenty listed, but I only say never in the context of the saying "never say never."