Change email address for autofill in Safari

To change the email address that autofill uses while in Safari click on Safari>Preferences>AutoFill. Make sure the box is check next to "Using info from my Address Book card" then click edit to the right of that. Your Address Book card wil open and have check boxes to the right of you info. Check the items you want to use for autofill.

Hope this helps.

I have the exact same problem. I tried WTBowman's solution, but I see no check boxes when Address Book comes up. It opens my card in Edit mode, but there are no check boxes to select which ones to use.

I am using OS 10.6.8 (not Lion).

-ME

I had the same problems as above, info in autofill was being pulled from the wrong card. Could not change the card in contacts or on the mac.

It seems the solution is a mix of what WTBowman and Joe Gramm above mentioned.

First, log in to www.icloud.com..

*open contacts,

*choose the card you want to be your contact card

* click on settings from the bottom left of the screen and choose "Make This My Card"

On your mac, open contacts and order the info (phones, emails, addresses) in the order you want it to be pulled with. The first item will be the one autofill will use to complete your forms.

I am using Mavericks 10.9

Hey guys,

I realise this is now years later, but for anyone finding this a little closer to the present day....

This bugged me for a while, I read and followed all steps but still couldn't get the result I wanted. i.e Autofill to choose the correct information from my contact card for forms.

In the end, I simply created another contact card in my contacts with the nickname AutoFill.

This card has the bare minimum info on it that I would use on forms: Name; address; tel; DOB; email. One entry for each - the one you would like Autofill to fill on forms.

Workaround, but it took 2 seconds, works perfectly and haven't looked back. Wish i had done this in the first place rather than messing around

Thanks for the effort on previous advice

I've looked through AddressBook and Safari Preferences and could not find an obvious way. Internet search turned up nothing. One Discussion here suggested Autofill may use the 1st one in order, but it seems you tried that.

Have the same exact problem. Only way to get it to choose the email address I want is to basically type most of it, or up to the letter where it distinguishes itself from the others. Like the new autofill feature in lion except for this email problem.

I would like to specify SOMEWHERE what email address to use, but I cannot find a place to do it.

The address that is being used is in NONE of my contacts.

Does anyone have any idea how to tell Safari what email address to autofill????

For what it's worth, I had this problem. I made sure everything was set up just as wtbowman suggested in Address Book, with the desired email address being the only one checked. Despite that it was still autofilling my work one, which I never use.

So I unchecked the only email address I wanted to use (so that none of them is checked) and Safari autofills the desired one now! For what it's worth, my main one is indeed the top entry on my email addresses.

Hope this helps somebody else!

Thanks. Unchecking the Using info from my Contacts Card box in Safari Preferences Autofill worked for me. I already had the Contact card I wanted to use selected in Contacts as Use This Card and my desired email was listed first.

Well, I've done all that and, on re-trying to log in to my (eg, Talktalk) account, I type in the first 3 letters of my log-in email and AGAIN the auto suggestion tag that appears underneath in blue is WRONG and I have to deselect it EVERY time. INFURIATING!!!

The suggested alternative isn't even listed in my various email addresses; it has obviously been picked up from when I must have, at some stage in the past, incorrectly entered my email address. I have no idea how to rid myself of this cursed annoyance. (I can't think it would make any difference but I am actually on OSX 10.11.1)

Interesting - have just noticed that if I type in an incorrect spelling in this forum I get the same standard spell check correction; so I typed in the said email address as above and - you guessed it, I get the same incorrect alternative suggestion in blue underneath the text - maybe it's a standard Spellcheck issue and not a 'Contact' issue???? If so how does one correct that?

Ramfrmcairo, thanks for taking the time to post this! I was able to change the tagged contact for my autofill and I appreciate your clear explanation. It worked! Ah, the little things in life! So happy 🙂

I had the same issue when trying to login to bank, on-line store, and more.

On a Mac:

System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text -> Uncheck "Correct spelling automatically"

Worked for me, if I checked it again, same problem re-appears.

Different year, same annoying UX.

I am having the same exact problem in mid-2016. My HOME or WORK tagged emails are not used. One of the OTHERs, in particular one I NEVER use to send emails from so it is not even in 'Recently Used' cache anywhere, keeps getting chosen. There are no Checkmarks in front of items to pick when following advice given from the past above.

Imran

I've done this and I still have the same issue. The only part I cannot do is the Mac part I don't have a Mac. Just an iphone. Why can I not just do this on the iPhone? there is no where to check anything or suggest that I would like to use an address as a primary address. I want it to auto fill my home address but keeps autodilking my work address. So annoying :-(

I tried WTBowman's solution, and I don't get check boxes to select what info I want Auto Fill to use. I'm using Lion.