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Modern Controls - Text boxes are autofilling previously entered data

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Posted on 1 Nov 2023 08:59:11 by brown_1892

I have a form and when I'm inserting a new record when I click into text boxes previously entered values are shown. The values displayed are not even just values that were input for this field e.g. the Call Off Number field is showing dates that were entered into other fields. This behaviour doesn't happen on all text boxes. Has anybody come across this?

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FilipLauridsen 12 on 22 Feb 2024 at 05:28:37

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Re: Modern Controls - Text boxes are autofilling previously entered data

This is indeed very disturbing. In most cases it's only an annoyance to have auto complete enabled.
Ideally "Browser Auto Complete" should be an advanced option which is set to default state "false".
Kathy_Sea 28 on 17 Feb 2024 at 00:03:57

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Re: Modern Controls - Text boxes are autofilling previously entered data

I had the same issue and hade to go to edge://waedge://wallet/settingsllet/settings to turn off most of the auto fill options.
kevvvv 6 on 15 Feb 2024 at 23:29:39

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Re: Modern Controls - Text boxes are autofilling previously entered data

This topic needs to be reopened and should not be pushed on browser settings. It was possible with standard (old) controls, so this is an easy-way-out excuse.
akash000 12 on 02 Jan 2024 at 19:31:57

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Re: Modern Controls - Text boxes are autofilling previously entered data

This has not been fixed and there is no clean way to disable autocomplete on the controls. Please reopen the ticket.
Viliam Juricek 68 on 26 Nov 2023 at 16:01:11

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Re: Modern Controls - Text boxes are autofilling previously entered data

Hello @v-mengmli-msft ,
I can't help myself but wonder what do you mean it is a browser issue not a Power Apps issue.

Setting autocomplete to off for the entire browser eliminates even useful autocomplete for users such as their addresses, and as @brown_1892 correctly pointed out, we just cannot ask users to turn this off just because Power Apps team developing modern controls omitted this basic attribute (although the control is still in preview).

To further support that this is most definitely Power Apps issue, please see this MDN Web Docs describing that autocomplete can be set on individual input level or form level. By extension, I believe this definitely points towards a choice while developing modern control text input to leave out this attribute.
<form method="post" action="/form"> … <div> <label for="cc">Credit card:</label> <input type="text" id="cc" name="cc" autocomplete="off" /> </div> </form>
<form method="post" action="/form" autocomplete="off"> … </form>
Link to MDN Web Docs - How to turn off form autocompletion

I just wanted to add this since in our experience is that this is hell of an annoying feature currently since it seems to be collecting all previously entered texts completely unrelated to the currently selected input.

BR
Wiliam
v-mengmli-msft on 06 Nov 2023 at 03:28:13

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Re: Modern Controls - Text boxes are autofilling previously entered data

Hi @brown_1892 ,

This is more of a browser issue than a PowerApps issue, and there is currently no way to set up autofill for a user's browser through PowerApps.
This may require the user to turn off autofill in the browser, but I don't think this is necessary, and some users may prefer to use their own browser settings.

Thanks for reading!
Rimmon
brown_1892 33 on 03 Nov 2023 at 15:19:13

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Re: Modern Controls - Text boxes are autofilling previously entered data

Hi Rimmon, thanks for your response.

Yes i'm using the modern controls but unfortunately setting the Value to "" doesn't work and after more testing the other fields that I thought were ok do intermittently show the same issue. I think the issue is with autofill in the browser (see screenshots from Edge and Chrome below that have different autofill values). I suspect turning autofill off will fix the issue but I can't ask everybody who is going to be using the App to turn that off. Are you aware of settings in Powerapps that need changing or any other idea?

Edge

Chrome
v-mengmli-msft on 01 Nov 2023 at 09:27:10

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Re: Modern Controls - Text boxes are autofilling previously entered data

Hi @brown_1892 ,

Are you using text input modern control?
If you don't want it to auto-populate value: the initial value is empty.
Try setting its value property to null.
Another possibility is that you have other settings on this control that are causing this problem, is it the same settings as other controls that are running fine?

Best regards,
Rimmon