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Google Chrome comes with a handy password manager already built-in. You can have your browser save and enter passwords for various sites when prompted to login. Here’s how to manage all your saved passwords in Chrome.
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Save a password in Chrome
The first step in managing your saved passwords is to make sure that password saving is turned on. This is done via the passwords menu.
To access it, click on your profile picture in the top right corner and then click on the small icon that looks like a wrench. You can also type chrome://settings/passwords into the Omnibox (the address bar) and press Enter.
Toggle the toggle labeled “Offer to save passwords” to the on position (it should be enabled by default).
Now go to a website where you need to login, fill in your credentials and sign up. After the form is submitted, Chrome will ask if you want to save your password. Click on “Save”. Clicking “Never” will add the site to a list of “Never Saved” passwords. We’ll show you how to remove a site from the “Never Saved” list below.
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Assuming you’ve saved the password, Chrome will automatically fill in the login form the next time you go to that site’s login page. If you have more than one username and password saved for a single site, click the field and choose which credentials to use.
Remove a site from the “Never Saved” list?
If you accidentally clicked “Never” when Chrome asks if you want to save your password to a site, here’s how to remove that site from the exceptions list. When you delete a site, you will be given the option to save your password the next time you log in.
Open the password menu by clicking your profile picture in the top right corner and clicking the small button. You can also type chrome://settings/passwords in the Omnibox and press Enter.
Scroll down until you see the “Never Saved” heading. This is a complete list of all the sites you’ve blacklisted in Chrome’s saved password list.
Scroll through the sites until you find the item you accidentally sent to this list, then click the X to the right of the URL.
The entry disappears and his life is saved from purgatory. Now when you sign in to that site again, Chrome will ask you if you want to save your password again.
View saved passwords
To see a list of all usernames and passwords stored in Chrome, open the password menu by clicking your profile picture in the top right corner and then clicking the small button again. You can also type chrome://settings/passwords in the Omnibox and press Enter.
On the new tab, scroll down to the “Saved Passwords” heading and you’ll find a list of all usernames and passwords stored in Chrome.
Click the eye icon to view the plain text password.
If you lock your computer with a password, you must enter the password before you can view this password. If you set it up with a PIN, you’ll need to provide that.
After successfully entering your computer’s credentials, the saved password will be visible in plain text.
Export saved passwords
If for any reason you need to export the entire list of usernames and passwords, Chrome can do that too.
We don’t recommend exporting your passwords unless you know what you’re doing or really need to, because everything exported is stored in a CSV file, which is unencrypted, and when opened can be read as plain text.
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In Chrome’s Passwords menu, next to “Saved passwords,” click the settings menu, then click “Export passwords.”
You will be asked to confirm the export of your passwords as this is a huge security risk as the file is fully human readable.
Again, when you access sensitive information, you will be prompted to enter your computer’s PIN or password to confirm this action.
Choose a safe place to save your file and click ‘Save’.
Delete saved passwords
If you accidentally clicked “Save as password” but you don’t have that account anymore or you just don’t want your password saved anymore, you can delete them from Chrome just as quickly as you save them.
In the Settings menu for Passwords, click the settings icon (three dots) next to the password you want to remove, then click “Remove.”
The selected password will be deleted immediately. A pop-up will appear informing you of the change and if you accidentally delete it, you can click Undo to recover your password.
To remove every item from your password list, you must first go to Chrome’s settings menu. Click the three dots in the top right corner, then choose “Settings.” You can also type chrome://settings/ in the Omnibox and press Enter.
In the Settings menu, click “Security & Privacy” on the right.
Scroll down a bit further until you see “Clear browsing data” and click on it.
In the pop-up, click on the ‘Advanced’ tab, choose ‘Always’ from the ‘Time range’ menu, check ‘Passwords’ and finally click on ‘Clear data’. There is no going back from this, so make sure you want to delete them all before clicking any further.
Follow the prompts and all passwords you’ve ever saved in Google Chrome will be cleared from your browser. The next time you go to a site, you better hope you remember your password or have a password manager or else you’ll find yourself clicking “Forgot your password?” link when you go to login.
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