Login Automation

@allawrence – Good question! Long ago, we did have a feature that we called autosubmit. That is, until we learned that having the ability for browser extensions to be able to imitate key strokes, such as the ‘return’ key that we emulate for auto-submit, can be exploited by malware to do some fairly nefarious things. That caused some OSes to block the ability to imitate the 'return' key altogether. We’ve tried out a few different things in the past, including using JavaScript to search for and “press” the submit/login button. This proved to be a fairly unreliable approach, and nothing we’ve found works quite as well as the return key. When designing software like 1Password, web browsers, and operating systems, there is always a fine balance between security and convenience.

As far as automating the sign in process, 1Password feels pretty strongly about allowing the user to select a Login before filling. There's a blog post written by our very own Chief Defender Against the Dark Arts explaining it here: https://blog.1password.com/1password-keeps-you-safe-by-keeping-you-in-the-loop/

I highly recommend giving that blog post a read - there's a lot to learn!

If you have any other questions, let me know. :)

@allawrence:

It's for security reasons ;) The blog post goes into some details about this too :+1:

@allawrence – I'm glad to hear that cleared things up for you. I appreciate the feedback around having an optional setting to autofill. It's good to know that's something you'd be interested in.