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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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wtbowman

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Posted on Feb 9, 2012 8:33 AM

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.

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Jul 14, 2016 12:21 AM in response to Bado

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

Aug 20, 2016 8:35 AM in response to Payton Garner

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 :-(

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

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

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

Change email address for autofill in Safari