Google Chrome - Manage Passwords

Need help accessing, saving, or deleting saved passwords on Google Chrome? Visit this article to learn more.

Summary

When you use Chrome, Google Password Manager saves your passwords for different sites.
You can save your passwords with Google Password Manager in many ways:

• Save passwords to your Google Account: When you're signed in to Chrome, you can save your passwords to your Google Account and use them across your devices and in some apps.
• Save passwords to your device: When you’re not signed in to Chrome, it stores passwords locally on your device. This is helpful if you don’t want to save passwords to your Google Account or share them across multiple devices.

 

Navigation

• Automatically save or preview a new password
• Manually add a new password
• Use a suggested password
• Start or stop saving passwords
• Check or remove sites that don’t save passwords
• Sign in with a saved password
• Add notes to your saved password
• Show, edit, delete, or export saved passwords

Step-by-Step

Manage New Passwords

Automatically save or preview a new password

If you enter a new password on a site, Chrome will ask to save it. To accept, select Save.

If you want to preview, review, or adjust a password:
To check the password that will be saved, select Preview 

• If there are multiple passwords on the page, select the Down arrow V. Choose the password you want saved.
• If your username is blank or incorrect, select the text box next to "Username". Enter the username you want saved.
• If you want to save a different password, select the text box next to "Password". Enter the password you want saved.

 

Manually add a new password

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, select More > Passwords and autofill > Google Password Manager.
3. Select Add.
4. Enter a website, username, and password.
5. Select Save.

 

Use a suggested password

1. On your computer, sign in to Chrome
2. Go to a website and sign up for an account. 
3. Select the password text box > Use strong password.
   • If this option doesn't show, right-click the password text box > Generate password.
4. You'll get a preview of the password. To confirm, select Use suggested password
5. Finish your account sign-up.

 

Start or stop saving passwords

By default, Chrome offers to save your password. You can turn this option off or on at any time.

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, select More  > Passwords and autofill > Google Password Manager.
3. On the left, select Settings.
4. Turn 'Offer to save passwords and passkeys' on or off.

 

Check or remove sites that don’t save passwords

If you choose not to save passwords for a site or app, in settings, you can manage them from the "Declined sites and apps".

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, select More  > Passwords and autofill > Google Password Manager.
3. Select Settings.
4. Under "Declined sites and apps", remove the site.

 

Manage Saved Passwords

Sign in with a saved password

If you saved your password to Chrome on a previous visit to a website, Chrome can help you sign in.

1. On your computer, go to a site you've visited before.
2. Go to the site’s sign-in form.
   1. If you’ve saved a single username and password for the site: Chrome will fill in the sign-in form automatically.
   2. If you’ve saved more than one username and password: Select the username field and choose the sign-in info you want to use.

 

Add notes to your saved password

You can add notes to a saved password to help you remember info about an account or to save login details. Once you add a note, it has the same security protection as a password.

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, select More  > Passwords and autofill > Google Password Manager.
3. Under "Passwords", choose the password you want to add a note to.
4. Select Edit.
5. Enter your note.
6. When you're finished, select Save.

 

Show, edit, delete, or export saved passwords

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, select More > Passwords and autofill > Google Password Manager.
3. Show, edit, delete, or export a password:
   • Show:
     1. Under “Passwords”, select the password.
     2. On the right of your password, select Show password .
   • Edit:
     1. Under “Passwords,” select the password.
     2. Select Edit.
     3. Edit your password.
     4. Select Save.
   • Delete:
     1. Under “Passwords”, select the password.
     2. Select Delete.
   • Export:
     1. On the left, select Settings.
     2. On the right of "Export Passwords", select Download file.

 

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