Most browsers will now take care of saving your online login information for you; but you may want to use a good browser. password manager If you need more features and functionality. This means that every time you open a site that your browser recognizes, it can fill in your username and password information for you.

This is a handy feature and saves you from sticky notes littering your desk with login information (not the safest or tidiest way to go about it). But what if you need to access your passwords when the site in question is not in front of you? Maybe you need to log into an app on your phone or desktop, or a site in a different browser.

If you save your passwords with Google Chrome, you can quickly call up the full list of login credentials without too much trouble; The same passwords are actually synced to Android and the web as well, so you should be able to access them. wherever you are.

Find your saved passwords in Google Chrome

Chrome will store your passwords and alert you to weak ones.
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To access your passwords in Chrome, you need to save them in the browser and sign in with your Google account. Both options can be accessed from the browser settings:

• Click on the three dots (top right).

• To choose Settings.

• Under You and Google You can sign in (if you haven’t already) and choose whether to sync passwords to this computer.

• Under Autofill and passwordsto choose Google Password Manager.

• To choose Settings To tell Chrome whether to offer to save passwords in this browser and autofill passwords when needed.

Assuming you have at least some of these features enabled (you’re saving your passwords or syncing them from elsewhere), you can find your passwords in the same password manager screen: Autofill and passwords Later Google Password Manager From Settings (you can also type “chrome://password-manager/passwords” in the address bar).

• Scroll through the list or use the search box at the top to find a password.

• Select any site name to see more details.

• You will be asked to verify your identity (usually through your Google password or through biometric security) setting a toggle switch.

• To see a password, click the eye icon in the password field.

• Use the copy icon (two rectangles) to copy the password to the clipboard.

You can edit and view stored passwords.
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You’ll see that you have a few options here. To organise, To deleteor To share Information that Chrome stores (note the last one, of course). You can also choose Control Click the icon on the left to have Chrome run a check on your login credentials. This check brings up warnings about passwords that are easy to crack or that you’ve used more than once.

Select Settings Other options here include importing and exporting passwords and managing the list of sites you’ve told Chrome you don’t want to save their passwords for.

Remember that sometimes you have to be creative when finding your passwords: Some website domains redirect you to login portals with different URLs in the address bar; so Chrome doesn’t always store the correct website name along with your username and password.

Find your saved passwords on the web and Android

Password manager on Pixel phone.
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If you don’t want to go the route outlined above, you can find your passwords stored on the web, in Chrome or another browser. It’s a useful option if you’re using someone else’s computer, for example.

On the web, on your desktop or mobile device, you can go to: “https://passwords.google.com/” to find Google’s password manager. Once logged in, everything is more or less the same as in Chrome: You can edit and delete passwords, but not share them. You can also run a check on passwords that should be changed.

If you’re using an Android device, go to the main Settings screen and then Google And Password Manager to access the same list of saved passwords. All the usual features are also here: Tap a website name to see username and password information and buttons to edit, delete and share the listing.