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How to Manage Saved Passwords in Chrome

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Google Chrome has a convenient password manager by default. When prompted to sign in, you may have your browser store and fill up passwords for other sites. Here’s how to manage all of your Chrome stored passwords.

How to Save a Password to Chrome

The first step in managing your stored passwords is to activate password saving. This is done using the Passwords menu.

To access it, click on your profile image in the upper right corner, then on the little key-shaped icon. You may also enter chrome:/settings/passwords in the Omnibox (the address bar).

 

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Toggle the “Offer to Save Passwords” switch to the on position (it should be on by default).

Now, go to a website where you must log in, enter your credentials, and sign in. Chrome will ask you if you want to remember your password once you submit the form. If you select “Never,” the site is added to a list of passwords that have never been saved. We’ll teach you how to delete a site from the “Never Saved” list down below.

Assuming you remembered the password, Chrome will automatically fill in the sign-in form the next time you visit that site’s sign-in page. If you have more than one login and password saved for any given site, click the box and select which one to use.

How to Remove a Site From the “Never Saved” List

If you unintentionally chose “Never” when Chrome asked if you wanted to store your password to a site, here’s how to remove that site from the exceptions list. When you delete a site, you are offered the opportunity to store your password the next time you check in.

Open the passwords menu by selecting your profile image in the upper right corner and then clicking the little key. You can simply put chrome:/settings/passwords into the Omnibox and press Enter.

Scroll down to the bottom until you find the header “Never Stored,” which has a comprehensive list of all the sites you’ve blocked from Chrome’s saved passwords list.

Scroll through the sites until you find the entry you inadvertently added to this list, then click the X to the right of the URL.

The entry vanishes and is released from purgatory. When you check in to that site again, Chrome will prompt you to store your password again.

How to View Saved Passwords

To view a list of all the usernames and passwords you’ve saved to Chrome, access the passwords menu by selecting your profile image in the upper right corner, then clicking the little key again. You may also enter chrome:/settings/passwords into the Omnibox.

Scroll down to the “Saved Passwords” section in the new tab to get a list of all the usernames and passwords saved to Chrome.

To view the password in plain text, click the eye icon.

If you have a password that protects your computer, you must enter it before you can view it. If you have a PIN, you must enter it.

The stored password is revealed in plain text when you successfully enter your computer’s credentials.

How to Export Saved Passwords

If you need to export the entire list of usernames and passwords for whatever reason, Chrome also allows you to do so.
We don’t advocate exporting your passwords unless you know what you’re doing or unless you really have to, because everything exported is kept in a CSV file that isn’t secured and may be read as plain text when accessed.
Choose the options menu next to “Saved Passwords” in Chrome’s Passwords menu, then click “Export Passwords.”

Because the file is totally human-readable, you are requested to approve the export of your passwords.

Because the file is completely human-readable, you must accept the export of your passwords.

Choose a safe place to store your file and click “Save.”

How to Remove Saved Passwords

If you unintentionally stored a password but no longer have that account or simply don’t want your password kept, you can erase it from Chrome just as easily as you save it.

Click the settings icon (three dots) next to the password you wish to erase in the Passwords settings menu, then click “Remove.”

The selected password is instantly deleted. A window will tell you of the change, and if you unintentionally removed it, you can undo it by clicking the Undo button.

To erase every entry from your passwords list, navigate to Chrome’s Settings menu. Click the three dots in the top right corner, then select “Settings.” Alternatively, enter chrome:/settings/ into the Omnibox and press Enter.

Once in the Settings menu, click “Security and Privacy” on the right-hand side.

Scroll down until you find “Clear Browsing Data,” then click on it.

Click the “Advanced” tab in the window, then select “All time” from the Time Range menu, tick “Passwords,” and lastly click “Clear Data.” There is no turning back from this, so make sure you want to remove all of them before pressing any further.

Following the instructions, any passwords you’ve ever saved in Google Chrome will be erased from your browser. You better hope you remember your password or have a password manager the next time you visit a website, or you’ll find yourself clicking the “Forgot Your Password?” link. When you try to sign in, click the “

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