@Val-Crimea Welcome to the forum!
I moved your feature request into this existing topic.
FYI, I think the best solution to this would be the idea previously proposed by @tgreer, to allow the user to define an account “nickname” (alias), which would be displayed in lieu of the email address.
Yes please give the option to hide the email. I work from cafes a lot. If someone steals my laptop, or somehow gains access, they can see right away which email account they need to hack into to access my BitWarden account.
For those users who want to see what account they are logging into, a simple solution is to mask part of the email so you can’t see all the characters. This is common practice with Google and other accounts.
Simple solution: Part of the email address can be masked so not all the characters are visible. This way you can see which BitWarden account you are logging into without revealing the entire email address. This is common practice for lots of other accounts including Google.
Have considered masking a user’s email address
When the account is still locked(before entering the master password), anyone who gains or is given access to your machine, even momentarily, won’t have the other piece of information for your account - email address.
Maybe for example if a user’s email address is
john.doe@gmail.com
, the extension only displays(before unlock)
jo*@gmail.com
or j*e@gmail.com
Occasionally we share the screen and need to access the vault. So, hiding the username is important for security reasons.
Most critical when we are using the alias approach to improve the security of our vault.
I think this is a must, maybe adding the option to show the same way in the password with the eye icon.
@ali1 (Belated) welcome to the forum! I moved your thread into an existing feature request on the same topic (@AndyDaSilva52 your comment has been moved, as well).
I was looking for this feature, and found this thread on this forum. I can’t vote yet because of some trust level, but I wish this feature was implemented.
This post is from 2021, and it’s 2025 and there’s no option yet to hide my email. (correct me if I’m wrong)
Can we please get this fixed?
Hello,
please add a feature to hide the user’s email (as well as the password) by default at login. Increase safety if someone looks over your shoulder. Of course, it would be possible to display the text in the input field as readable via the “eye” icon.
It would be good because everybody knows the login email and when I write it and someone next to me will see my email. In addition, the situation is prevented when someone accidentally starts typing a password in the email field, so his password will still be hidden. (yes, I know such people)
Like this:
The picture is in Czech, so I’m sorry, but everyone understands that it’s a login screen. 
Thank you for your response, and I hope that it will be added.
I have used Bitwarden for years, and recently one issue has been bothering me: the email address visible on the unlock screen.
This may seem trivial and even obvious. Of course the email must be visible — how would you know which account you are signing into?
In recent weeks a stranger asked me for directions on the street, and to help I opened my phone while standing next to them. When I opened it, the Bitwarden mobile app was on screen and, fortunately, it had been locked automatically, so my passwords were not revealed, which is excellent — but the email I use to log into the app was visible. I do not believe that person would do anything with my email, but it still bothered me. You could say it was my fault for opening my phone near a stranger, and you would be completely right. Still, I personally think the app could offer a way to prevent accidents like this.
More recently, in a public place, I was about to open my vault using the browser extension when I noticed a camera pointed at me. Realizing this, I did not unlock the vault, but my email remained visible. Again, I should have been more careful, but I think a simple implementation would help inattentive people like me.
Personally, I have no reason to be excessively paranoid and, if this feature is not implemented, it would not harm me greatly. I know I am not someone anyone would want to spy on via security cameras to discover my private email, but I also know there are people who could be harmed by revealing a “simple email.”
My suggestion is to add, on the app unlock screen and in the browser extension, an option to hide the email which the user can click to reveal when desired.
Another suggestion is to partially mask the email on that unlock screen, for example:
original email: example.example@example.com
partially masked email: exa************le@**le.com
If the user wishes, they could also unmask it by clicking an icon to reveal the full email.
If this is a bad idea, please comment. Thank you for your time.
@Unmolded3490 Welcome to the forum!
I moved your post into an existing feature request on the same topic.
As I’ve mentioned a few times in this hread already, FYI, I think that the best solution would be the idea previously proposed by @tgreer, to allow the user to define an account “nickname” (alias), which would be displayed in lieu of the email address. By default, this nickname/alias could be the email address, so that the behavior is the same as it currently is, unless the user sets up a non-default value to use for the nickname/alias.
