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Well said Nick Tilly:

"It drives me nuts that this suggestion needs "the community to get behind and support it"... for goodness sake XERO - just do it!!

Yesterday I emailed the CEO about this so hopefully it gets some traction.

Tim Wiel you are a champion. It works like a dream!
Why Xero cannot fix this is beyond me.
Your work around should not have been needed but I thank you deeply for providing it

Thanks for all the support from the community.
I wish I could have raised it as a bug 🐞. This is usability 101, really.

Please Xero, what is stopping you to fix this?

I previously commented on just how simple this was to impliment in November 2024.

Today I've got sick of waiting for this to be implemented so I got ChatGPT to do it for me with a Google Chrome Extension (see https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pU7lTRhB17kjtcvHL1lI2yT1pZ9jQcWe/view?usp=sharing)

It's basic but works ... it's not in the Google App store cos I can't be bothered figure how to submit it.

And of course you can't install the extension on Google Chrome on your phone but desktop machines will work fine.

Really hope this helps someone cos it's going to help me.

It drives me nuts that this suggestion needs "the community to get behind and support it" ... for goodness sake XERO - just do it!!

I use numerous websites/apps every day and they all have this as a standard, eminently useful/sensible feature.

Seems completely bonkers to me that this inefficiency is a feature of XERO.

This is such a no-brainer it's embarrassing for you.

Back to Basics Edition. Forget the Flashy Gigits/Widgits/Ads All that is Wanted/Needed is what the Product Used to be 6 Years Ago. Since then the Price has Increase 50% and Productivity has Plummeted. Combined with All the Page Changes No Hotkey Support (Not Keyboard Friendly at all.
Even When you Sign in You Have to Physically Click in the MFA Box to Continue the Login Process. A Simple Programming Edit that Xero Appears to be Unable to Do.
Going Forward IF Xero Insists on not giving Users the Option to Retain the Basic Home Page. I Can Say Xero will definitely be Losing Me as a Customer along with all the Recommendations That I have been Giving.

This has been requested since May 2024 !
It is a bug fix
It is easy to implement
Just do it!
The silent majority will thank you silently

I cannot agree more. This may seem small and unimportant, but to me it is really critical to make login faster and easier. Makes Xero more accessible, every time I use it. Thank you.

Not homepage but before it. Set the focus to the field for the pin number on the preceeding logon page

Seriously guys. This is UX 101. I am a software developer so this especially annoys me. I don't know how many times I have started typing the code and the focus is not on the code box. This is such a SIMPLE fix that it should take no longer than 15 minutes with testing. I would be more than happy to do it for you if you wish.

To get you started, try simply adding the autofocus attribute to the code textbox in your HTML.

See:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global_attributes/autofocus

https://caniuse.com/?search=autofocus

Agree- this is not an enhancement awaiting a certain number of votes, it's poor UX that a savvy provider would want to fix ASAP!

This is a bug fix not an enhancement, of course the cursor should be in this field…..

Second this. I came here to request the same. such a small detail, with such an upside for the users, and super easy to implement. come on Xero...

When I log into Xero and bring up a 2FA code on my device ready to input, I automatically start typing. Then I look up to see that the digits are not in the input field, because you have to manually click on the field before you can add the 2FA. This gets me every time, and it drives me crazy!

If this page loaded with the cursor already in the box, it would be a lot more streamlined. At the moment, it's very pick-up, put-down:

1. Log in screen typing
2. 2FA screen pick up the device
3. Hand on mouse to click in the 2FA input field
4. Hands back on the keyboard to type in the the 2FA code
5. Then take hands off the keyboard again to click the Trust checkbox.

It feels kind of clunky?

This fix would increase usability so much!
I find it so annoying that I have to click into the MFA field manually(!) after taking attention of the screen to open and enable my Authenticator app on a different device.
Like others already wrote, fixing this should be a minor task for any web developer and it is surprising us users need to raise it here.

Changing the logon page to automatically move the cursor to the MFA field to allow immediate typing would take the developers a good 20 or 30 seconds to implement. This sort of lazy coding and lack of action when the issue is raised, does put a question mark over the amount of consideration our ideas are actually given by Xero...

Xero Login - set screen focus to the two-factor authentication (2FA) password.

Every time i start entering the two-factor authentication (2FA) password and then find its not set on the filed.

I log in and out of Xero dozens of times daily. the little square "Trust this device ticked" never works. Every time I need to log in, I need to go through the process again and again, email, password, authentication.
What I found really annoying and impractical is after keying in the password, the next screen is the authenticator code, if I do not take the mouse and point out into the authentication box, the numbers keyed in goes anywhere. This should be automated as MYOB and QuickBooks, BGL360, CAS360 have and many other accounting softwares. This will save me to watch the screen, I am a fast keyboard processor and this is very annoying.

This virtually how all other website with MFA work, as soon as the MFA dialogue box appears, this is selected as the input field.

It's a small thing, but, small things that you have to do EVERY DAY matter. It makes the logon process to Xero painful.

It must surely annoy Xero staff logging, because, it annoys customers.

I cannot think of another websites with MFA that I use that does not auto select the MFA entry box after entering a username and password.