Consistent behaviour on clicking a listed item in vault

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Having now lived with version 2026.4.1, I can confirm that the UX is significantly degraded due to the decision to eliminate users’ ability to configure one-click item viewing.

A significant pain point is accessibility of data in card and identity items. As I previously explained in December, 2024 (which is when users first lost one-click view access to cards and identities), this is a problem:

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2. Viewing Card/Identity Data Requires Extra Steps

There are common use cases when one needs to look up Card or Identity data for purposes other than autofilling an online form in an open web page. A very common example would be when providing such information by telephone. A user who enables the options to “Show Cards” and/or “Show Identities” will want such data at their fingertips. Having to unlock one’s vault is already a barrier, but having done so, the required information should be one click away (as previously, in the old UI prior to 2024.12.0).

There are many other use-cases in which viewing a vault item has higher priority than autofilling, so removing user choice in the name of “simplifcation” is (IMO) shortsighted.

For context, prior to v2024.12.0, cards and identities used to have their own dedicated (but optionally displayed) sections on the “Tab” page (default home page for the browser extension), with a one-click “View” button. This was great.

With the 2024/2025 UI-redesign, the “Tab” and “Vault” views were consolidated, and autofill suggestions became click-to-view (with a “Fill” button for autofilling), but Cards/Identities became hidden (i.e., unclickable) — except for when Bitwarden’s imperfect detection algorithm determined that there were payment or address fields on the web page. This was the subject of a feature request, which was ultimately addressed in v2025.2.2, by introducing the options to always show cards and/or identities as autofill suggestions (not in their own, dedicated sections, as in the pre-2025 UI). This solution was (IMO) clunky, but at least it restored one-click view access for card and identity data.

Unfortunately, with v2026.4.1, even if one has enabled the options to “Always show cards/identities as autofill suggestions”, it is now necessary to perform an extra click (on the “More Options” button), and a scroll to the top of the context menu, before one can click “View” to view the item details.

As a work-around, I have been forced to disable “Always show cards/identities as autofill suggestions”, add the cards and identities to my “Favorites” section, and then rename all favorited items to insert a numerical prefix (to create separate groupings of logins, cards, and identities within the “Favorites” section — albeit without headers for the subsections). This is ugly, inconvenient, and still a UX degradation, but at least it makes possible one-click access to the item details: