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Google Chrome Password Management

Max S.
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Manage passwords

You can have Chrome save your passwords for different sites.

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

  • To see the password that will be saved, click Preview 
  • If there are multiple passwords on the page, click the Down arrow Down arrow. Choose the password you want saved.
  • If your username is blank or incorrect, click the text box next to "Username." Enter the username you want saved.
  • If you want to save a different password, click 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, click More More and then Settings and then Autofill.
  3. Click Password Manager and then Add.
  4. Enter a website, username, and password.
  5. Click Save.
Tip: If you’re signed in to your Google Account on your computer, you can save the password to your Google Account, or save the password locally on your device.
 

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.
    • If you’ve saved a single username and password for the site: Chrome will fill in the sign-in form automatically.
    • If you’ve saved more than one username and password: Select the username field and choose the sign-in info you want to use.

Show, edit, delete, or export saved passwords

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click Profile Profile and then Passwords Passwords.
    • If you can’t find the Passwords icon, at the top right of your screen, click More More and then Settings and then Autofill and then Password Manager.
  3. Show, edit, delete, or export a password:
    • Show: To the right of the website, click Show password Preview. If you lock your computer with a password, you'll be prompted to enter your computer password.
    • Edit: To the right of the website, click More More and then Edit password.
    • Delete: To the right of the website, click More More and then Remove.
    • Export: To the right of "Saved Passwords," click More More and then Export passwords.

To clear all your saved passwords, clear browsing data and select Passwords.

 

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, click Profile Profile and then Passwords Passwords.
    • If you can’t find the Passwords icon, at the top right of your screen, click More More and then Settings and then Autofill and then Password Manager.
  3. Turn Offer to save passwords on or off.

Sign in to sites & apps automatically

You can automatically sign in to any sites and apps where you have saved your info using "Auto sign-in." When you turn on "Auto sign-in," you don't need to confirm your username and password.
If you want to confirm your saved info when you sign in, you can turn off "Auto sign-in."
  1. On your computer, open Chrome. 
  2. At the top right, click Profile Profile and then Passwords Passwords.
    • If you can't find your Google Account, learn how to turn on sync in Chrome.
    • If you can’t find the Passwords icon, at the top right of your screen, click More More and then Settings and then Autofill and then Password Manager.
  3. Turn Auto sign-in on or off.
 

Check your saved passwords

You can check all your saved passwords at once to find out if they're exposed in a data breach or potentially weak and easy to guess.

To check your saved passwords:

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click Profile Profile and then Passwords Passwords.
    • If you can’t find the Passwords icon, at the top right of your screen, click More More and then Settings and then Autofill and then Password Manager.
  3. Click Check passwords.

You'll get details on any password exposed in a data breach and if any passwords may be weak.

 

Manage password change alerts

You may get an alert from Chrome if you use a password and username combination that has been compromised in a data leak on a third party website or app. Compromised password and username combinations are unsafe because they’ve been published online. 

We recommend that you change any compromised passwords as soon as you can. You can follow the instructions in Chrome to change your password on the site where you’ve used that password, and check your saved passwords for any other site the password may be saved on. 

Chrome makes sure that your passwords and username are protected so they can’t be read by Google.

To start or stop notifications:

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More More and then Settings.
  3. Click Privacy and security and then Security.
  4. Click Standard protection.
  5. Turn Warn you if passwords are exposed in a data breach on or off.
Tip: This feature is only available if the "Safe Browsing" option is activated.

 

To dismiss notifications for specific sites:

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More More and then Settings.
  3. On the left, click Autofill and then Password Manager.
  4. Click on Check Passwords to check which of your saved passwords are compromised.
  5. Under “Compromised passwords,” next to the name of the site whose notifications you want to stop, click More More and then Dismiss warning.
Tip: To restore site warnings, under "Dismissed warnings," click More Organize next to the site whose notifications you want to begin again. Then, click Restore warning.

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