Change email address for autofill in Safari

Hi guys,

I really love the autofill feature in Safari but this is driving me nuts:

in my address book card I have several email addresses. For the autofill feature Safari always uses my podcast address labelled "other". I definitely don't want that to be my standard address but the one labelled "home". How on earth can I tell Safari/Address Book to use this one? I already tried changing the order - no success.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Bado

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Sep 9, 2011 8:23 AM

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gurchinaus

Level 1

4 points

Posted on Jul 14, 2016 12:21 AM

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

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Feb 2, 2015 2:37 PM in response to wtbowman

This worked for me!!! I just had to then edit information in the Contact Card. This has been driving me crazy for a long time.

Thanks so much.

Sep 29, 2015 3:06 AM in response to wtbowman

Thank You,

This solved it for me!

Feb 20, 2017 1:18 PM in response to ramfrmcairo

This fixed all the problems I was having with the wrong card being chosen for all kinds of stuff in my system. Thanks!

emdashes

Level 1

4 points

Sep 12, 2017 8:01 AM in response to ramfrmcairo

This worked! Thanks! Ridiculous that it isn't a simple iPhone setting.

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Change email address for autofill in Safari