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Update about Autofill improvements in Beta
Hey folks,
We’ve worked hard over the last three months to improve the reliability of Autofill in complex situations, such as when you have multiple items for the same website or want certain items to only be shown on a specific page.
If you’ve been using the beta, you might’ve run into the following improvements already:
* When editing an item, you can now access the “Autofill Behavior” menu, which lets you customize how an item will show on a specific page;
* When signing into websites, an opt-in improvement to the Autofill algorithm generates more reliable results in complex situations where subdomains, ports, and paths matter in order to prioritize certain items over others.
We appreciate your curiosity and have been looking on eagerly as you discovered and tested these new features. Your feedback has been very helpful, and we’re keeping track of what you shared so we can incorporate it into future versions of 1Password.
Over the last week, we’ve decided to temporarily retire the “Improved Autofill suggestions” feature. This is due to us having a very busy roadmap ahead of us and not being able to prioritize making this feature as good as it should be for the time being. However, please rest assured that we will return to it later this year and ensure it addresses all your feedback.
What this means for you
Within upcoming betas, you’ll keep seeing the “Autofill Behavior” menu. That’s not going away, and it will keep working as expected. It is slated to enter the production channel within a month or two once we’re comfortable with its performance.
The toggles for Improved Autofill Suggestions will gradually disappear from the Browser Extension and 1Password 8 betas. The behavior will revert to the original version of Autofill regardless of whether you’ve switched to the new version.
As mentioned above, we’re not abandoning this feature permanently; we’re just ensuring we’ll have enough time when we get back to working on it to truly make it shine.
Thank you for your understanding! We’re always open to your feedback and questions, so please let us know if there’s anything we can help with.
Cheers,
Gabriele
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I think there may be some confusion about the autofill improvements discussed here. I originally thought it was a single new feature, allowing users to specify they'd like certain entries to have different "Autofill Behavior" and that to enable it one had to select "Improved Autofill Suggestions" in their extension.
However it seems like these might be two distinct features that are mostly unconnected, one of which ("Autofill Behavior") will be staying while the other ("Improved Autofill Suggestions") will be removed for the time being. Is that accurate?
@GDZ : Guess what? I don't have problems unlocking my iOS devices with 1Password 8. So, for me personally, it's not an issue ... But I see and read a lot of customers having such an issue here. But there are also a lot of requests for a better autofill feature ...😉
DenalB: We evidently rate what is more important very differently.
For us as a company (with several tousends of PW entries), it is more important to have a reasonable autofill than any "iOS issues unlocking... something" :)Ultimately, however, I do not know the customer structure of 1Password and with which customers the most revenue is made and therefore which customers groups are the most important.
I can only say what we are missing the most.
1P_Travis1Password Team
Hi folks!
Thank you to everyone that has taken the time to download our beta extension and give the alternative algorithm a try!
It’s important to recognize that 1Password, specifically the Authentication team that leads the Filling and Saving experience, has an important role for improving the overall day-to-day experience of our customers. The alternative algorithm definitely has that potential in the future. However, with "Advanced URL Matching" still in active development, as well as numerous other improvements we have planned for the near future, I strongly believe we will be releasing new features and improvements that have had their value proven to our customers and will substantially improve the overall Filling and Saving experience for everyone. Those priorities and sheer volume of improvements are the right investment which was the core reason we decided to deprioritize development of the alternative algorithm at this time.
I encourage all of our beta extension users to keep it installed as they will have first crack at some truly amazing features and innovations coming soon.
I think DenalB said it best:
"I think it is a good start for the improved autofill behavior. Please take your time... I'm looking forward to an improved autofill behavior later this year."Best regards,
Travis Hogan
Senior Product Manager - Authentication
1PasswordI think it is a good start for the improved autofill behavior. Please take your time and concentrate on more important things, like the iOS issues with unlocking the app. 👍
I'm looking forward to an improved autofill behavior later this year.
Hey vidario, the plan is to retire the improved "Autofill Suggestions" within the next beta update or two. While you can disable auto-updating in the desktop app's settings, I don't know of a way to disable automatic updates to the browser extension since they are managed by the browser. I would also recommend against disabling automatic updates on either because you'll miss out on potentially important security or functionality updates that might affect your experience negatively.
I've shared your feedback about wanting to keep access to these features with the team :)
Cheers,
GabrieleHi, I returned to 1Password (upgrading my personal version to the family version) after I had abandoned it only because I saw that this feature had finally been introduced. From the tests I have done, the behavior is quite satisfactory, albeit with some minor flaws (duplicate items in some situations). How can I know when this feature will be retired? I would like to avoid going back to the previous behavior, even if it meant not updating the desktop version and the extension for a while...
