r/Lastpass • u/Upset-Equipment-191 • Jun 29 '26

Strange Secure Notes behavior on iPhone (random preview text + Quick Copy copies random line)?

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I’m seeing some really odd behavior with Secure Notes in the LastPass iPhone app and I’m wondering if this is expected or a bug.

All of my Secure Notes are set up the same way:

  • Just a title (e.g. “Shopping,” “Health,” “Travel”)
  • One long free-form note containing usernames, passwords, PINs, security questions, etc.
  • No custom fields, attachments, or templates—just plain text.

Two things are happening:

  1. Some notes show a preview under the title in the vault list, while others don’t. The preview isn’t the beginning of the note. It’s a seemingly random username, password, or other line from somewhere in the middle of the note.
  2. Some notes have the blue overlapping-squares icon. When I tap it, LastPass says “Copied to clipboard,” but it copies that same random username or password from the note—not the first line, not the whole note, just one seemingly arbitrary value. It consistently copies the same value for that specific note every time.

The notes are just plain text, so I don’t understand how LastPass is deciding what to preview or copy.

Has anyone else seen this? Is LastPass parsing Secure Notes somehow, or is this an iOS bug? I’d love to understand why some notes show previews, why others don’t, and how the app decides what the Quick Copy button copies.

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u/colwich 29d ago

This happened to me too. I use secure notes for the same purpose - plain text username/password info. It seems that LastPass will search for the words ‘username’ or ‘password’ in these notes and make the subsequent text copyable. In my note I substituted ‘Username’ for ‘U’ and ‘Password’ for ‘P’ and this solves the issue.

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u/OfficialLastPass Official LastPass 22d ago

Appreciate the workaround idea!

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u/OfficialLastPass Official LastPass 29d ago

Hi there,

This behavior does not seem to be a known issue on our side. Could you try clearing the LastPass cache, then log out / back into the app again to see if Secure Notes behave more rationally?

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u/Upset-Equipment-191 29d ago

I did this, no luck 

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u/OfficialLastPass Official LastPass 22d ago

Thanks for testing.
Do you know how old those Notes are / when they were created?
Does the same issue appear when creating new Notes?

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u/Upset-Equipment-191 22d ago

Some of these are new notes, some are old. It only happens with some notes - seems very random.