Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (2024)

Google Password Manager makes it simple to use a strong, unique password for all your online accounts. When you use Google Password Manager, you can save passwords in your Google Account or on your device.

Important: Google Password Manager will only suggest strong passwords when saving passwords to your Google Account.

You can use Google Password Manager to:

  • Create and save strong, unique passwords to your Google Account so you don’t have to remember them.
  • Protect all your saved passwords with built-in security.
  • Automatically fill in passwords on sites and apps.

How Google Password Manager can improve your online security

A safer way to manage your passwords

Stolen passwords are one of the most common ways that accounts are compromised.

To help protect your accounts, you can use Google Password Manager to:

  • Suggest strong, unique passwords and save them in your Google Account, to avoid multiple account compromises from a single stolen password.
  • Notify you about compromised passwords. If someone publishes your saved passwords on the internet, Google Password Manager can help you change any compromised passwords.
  • Help block unauthorized access. Your passwords are stored behind Google’s built-in security using encryption.

Tip: To add more security to your saved passwords, you can add recovery info and turn on 2-Step Verification.

Use Google Password Manager

Get started

To use your passwords on all your devices, you can either:

  • Turn on sync in Chrome.
  • Sign in to Chrome and allow Chrome to use passwords from your Google Account when asked.

Save & use passwords

Create, save, and fill passwords with Chrome

When you create a new account on a site, Chrome can suggest a strong, unique password. If you use a suggested password, it’s automatically saved.

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

  • To view the password that was entered, click Preview Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (1).
  • If there are multiple passwords on the page, click Down Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (2). Choose the password you want to save.
  • If your username is blank or incorrect, tap the text box next to "Username." Enter the username you want to save.
  • If you want to save a different password, click the text box next to "Password." Enter the password you want to save. Then select Save.

If Chrome doesn’t offer to save your passwords

Save your password if you aren't asked to automatically

  1. On your computer, open Chrome Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (3).
  2. Enter your info on the website you want to save the password for.
  3. To the right of the address bar, click Passwords Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (4) Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (5)Save.

If you don't see Passwords Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (6), delete your password and try to sign in again.

Turn offers to save passwords on or off

By default, Chrome offers to save your password. You can turn password saving on or off in your Google Account or in Chrome:

  1. On your computer, open Chrome Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (7).
  2. At the top right, click Profile Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (8) Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (9) Passwords Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (10).
  3. Turn Offer to save passwords on or off.

Sign in with a saved password on Chrome

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 can 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.

Switch to Google Password Manager

You can import passwords to your Google Account from another service.

Use passkeys with a trusted browser

  • To sign in to or sign up with websites using a passkey, your browser needs to handle your passkey credentials to work with Google Password Manager. Always use a secure browser that you trust.
  • If you can’t access passkeys stored in Google Password Manager from your browser, it might be because your browser hasn’t been approved as a trusted browser yet.

Learn more about signing in with passkeys.

Manage & secure your passwords

Find, delete, or export saved passwords

To find the list of accounts with saved passwords, you can go topasswords.google.com or view your passwords in the Google Password Manager on your device.

  • To find a password: Select an account, then click Preview Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (11).
  • To delete a password: Select an account, then click Delete.
  • To export your passwords: Click Settings Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (12) Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (13) Export passwords.

Check for unsafe passwords

You can check all your saved passwords at once to find out if they are:

  • Published on the internet
  • Exposed in a data breach
  • Potentially weak and easy to guess
  • Used on multiple accounts

To check your saved passwords, go to Password Checkup.

Learn more about Password Checkup.

Change Password Manager settings

  1. Go to passwords.google.com.
  2. In the top right, select Settings Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (14).
  3. From here you can manage your settings.
    • Offer to save passwords: Manage offers to save passwords in Android and Chrome.
    • Manage offers to passwords for specific sites or apps: You can choose to never save passwords for specific sites. When you're prompted to save a password, select Never.If you decide later to save this password, select Remove Save, manage & protect your passwords - Computer (15) next to the name of the site or app.
    • Auto sign-in: You can automatically sign in to sites and apps using info you’ve saved. You can turn Auto sign-in off if you want to provide confirmation before signing in.
    • Password alerts: You can get notified when your saved passwords are found online.
    • On-device encryption: Encrypt your passwords on your device before they're saved to Google Password Manager. Learn how to encrypt your passwords on your device. This feature isn't available for Workspace users.

How Google Password Manager handles your data

Google Password Manager collects certain information to perform services on your device. Some of this functionality uses Google Play services. For example, the Google Password Manager collects this information for analytics and troubleshooting purposes:

  • Page views and taps in the app
  • Crash logs
  • Diagnostics

Your synced data is always protected by industry-leading encryption to reduce the risk of a data breach. Learn more about industry-leading encryption.

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