Turn off AutoFill for User Names and Passwords

In this video, we will look at how we can tell Safari to no longer save our passwords, our usernames, and passwords when we log into a site. This may come in handy if you write down your passwords yourself, or maybe you use a different password manager, such as 1Password or LastPass. Let’s see how we can tell Safari to no longer save and suggest usernames and passwords on the Mac. Let’s go to my Mac.

Now, if you didn’t know this, what Safari will do when you go to a website, let’s go and open up Safari here; when I go to a site where you log in, I’m going to log into my site here. What Safari will do is it will auto-fill your passwords for you. If you do not have a login or a password, Safari will suggest a password for you and save that. And then the next time you go to that site, it’ll automatically fill it with your username and password. This is part of iCloud.

Now that it’s iCloud, it will also sync your usernames and passwords across all of your different Apple devices. So if you’re solely in the Apple ecosystem, this may be an excellent solution for saving your user names and passwords.

But wonder if you have other devices that are not Apple; maybe you have a PC. You want to share your passwords along with that PC. Well, this is where 1Password and LastPass come in. What they’re able to do is share your different passwords across different devices, different brands. So in those cases, you may not want to use Apple’s iCloud to save your usernames and passwords because it’s not going to help when you’re on that other device, or as I said earlier, maybe you write them down in a notebook. You do not want them to be saved on your computer, on your Mac. So now what do you do? Every time you log into a site, Safari will ask to save that username and password. Well, what we need to do is we need to turn this off. We can then use our other password managers such as LastPass or 1Password, or we can just write them down in a notebook.

So how do we turn off this auto-save and auto-fill of usernames and passwords in Safari? Well, it’s pretty easy. All we have to do is just go up to Safari in the menu bar, and then we go over to Safari’s Preferences. From here, we need to go to AutoFill. Under AutoFill will be all of the different types of information that Safari will autofill, one of them being user names and passwords. Now all I need to do is just de-select this, and when I close this, I’m going to refresh my page here; you’re going to see it is no longer suggesting any usernames and passwords.

So that’s how you can tell Safari to no longer save and suggests usernames and passwords when you go to a website. Again, this may help you use a different password manager or just write them out in a notebook. All you have to do is just go to Safari’s Preferences, and then under AutoFill, you just de-select usernames and passwords.

So that’s how you can tell Safari to no longer save your usernames and passwords and suggest them on the Mac.