Often, when we enter a web page from Google Chrome and we want to log into said web, the browser will suggest that we save our passwords in order not to have to re-enter them the next time we want to access. And so, without realizing it, we are storing a multitude of passwords in our Google account. But what if what we want is see all our saved passwords in our Google account?
Here are the simple steps to see all the passwords and keys that we have saved in our Google account. Thus, you will be able to manage them the way you need: view and edit them, delete them, deactivate that Google saves them automatically, check if someone else has used or hacked them, etc.
Google allows us to configure Chrome so that remember our passwords to speed up the login of the different websites that we access on all devices and operating systems: computer, Android, iPhone and Mac. Of course, if we want Google to save our passwords and we can use them on various devices, we must turn on syncing in Chrome.
How to activate synchronization in Google Chrome?
To activate it, we must log in to our Google account. Next, if we want to synchronize our information on all our devices, we will click on Activate sync> Activate. This will allow us to log in to websites that, for example, we had accessed from our computer, on our Smartphone without having to re-enter the username and password. We can also access other elements such as bookmarks, history and other configuration options.
Importantly Chrome saves our passwords in our Google account by default, that is, it will always store our credentials for the different websites unless we deactivate this function [keep reading to know how to do it].
It may be the case that when we enter a new password on a website, Chrome asks us if we want to save it. Here a box will appear on the right side of our screen or in the center. To see the password that we will save and the username, we will click on Show password.
We can also find ourselves in the situation of having several passwords on the page. This is because If we have more than one account for the same website, different passwords will appear.. If this happens, we will click on the down arrow and we will have to choose the password that we want to save or replace for that user / account.
How to see the passwords saved in Chrome from our computer
Now, we probably want to manage and see all our saved passwords in our Google account of all the websites that we have previously accessed in order to delete, view or edit them. To access this list of saved passwords, we must follow these simple steps which we describe below:
First, we open Google Chrome from our computer. At the top right of the screen, we click on our Profile and then to Configuration.
Next, the settings page of our Google Chrome account profile will open. In the part of Autocomplete, we will click Passwords
Here a one will appear list of passwords that we have saved in our Google account with the following information: Website, Username and Password. Here we can do the following:
- VIEW the password by clicking on the "eye" icon
- Edit the password
- Remove or delete the password
- Export Password.
If what we want is remove and erase all passwords saved in Google Chrome, we must go to Profile> Settings> Privacy and Security> Clear browsing data and in "Advanced settings", select "Passwords and other login data" and delete the browsing data.
It is important to note that, if we want to speed up this process, Google also gives us the possibility of accessing our passwords with a single click through your manager. Thus, if we wish, we can skip the previous steps and, for example, we can add this Google administrator in our bookmarks bar and have more direct access to our stored passwords.
How to see the passwords saved in Chrome from our mobile
If we do not have a computer or we make priority use of our Smartphone during our day to day, Google also allows us access our passwords from our mobile from the google password manager or from the browser itself.
To see the passwords saved from our mobile, we must go to "Settings" and then to "Passwords". Here we will get a list with all the credentials of the different websites that we have previously authorized Google to store in our account. The steps to access this list of passwords will be the same for Android and iOS users.
Enable or disable save passwords in Chrome
By default, Chrome saves and stores your passwords, but we have the ability to to disable This function. Thus, we can prevent Chrome from saving our login keys, either because we are going to use a public computer or simply because we want the browser to stop doing so. For this we must take into account the following steps:
We open the Google Chrome browser and, in the same way as in the previous steps, we access our Profile> Settings> Passwords at the top right.
Here, at the top, the following phrase will appear: "Ask if I want to save passwords." We will activate this function if we want Chrome to stop saving the keys automatically and ask us if we want to save them at each login.
Advantages and disadvantages of saving your passwords in Chrome
Using Chrome as our password manager has several advantages and disadvantages that should be highlighted. Although we have seen many of the advantages and facilities of our browser saving our keys, there are also several disadvantages and risks of doing so.
Advantages
- The main advantages of using our Chrome account to save our passwords for different websites is comfort when logging on to the webs. When we log into a website for the first time, Chrome will save our credentials for us. Thus, the next times we access the same page, Google will automatically log us in without the need to re-enter our username and password.
- On the other hand, Chrome gives us the possibility to automatically generate strong passwords at our first login to a page. These passwords are very secure and are generated randomly and as the browser is responsible for remembering it, we should not worry. A) Yes, Chrome will allow us to have a different password for each page.
- Activate syncing in chrome It is another of the great advantages of saving passwords, since it will allow us to remember them on all our devices. Also, if, for example, we decide to change a password for a website from the Chrome of our computer, this change will automatically be applied to our Smartphone.
Drawbacks
- If we use our Chrome browser as the only password manager and do not take into account others such as Safari, Firefox or Edge, we will see limited and required to always use Google Chrome. Thus, if we want to use another browser, we will not have access to the saved passwords since they cannot be synchronized from Chrome.
- As we have mentioned, Chrome offers us the possibility of generating automatic passwords, but these can be more secure if we use alternatives such as password generators that make use of more advanced algorithms And, unlike Chrome, these generators do offer the possibility of customizing these keys.
- If our Smartphone is stolen or lost, they can automatically access our with a simple click on the browser. We also have to take into account that if we use Chrome in a public place, for example a library, and we do not log out, they will be able to access our passwords.
- It may also be the case that our passwords have been victims of a computer attack and that they have been able to access it remotely. For this Chrome gives us a solution:
Check if our passwords have been compromised, stolen or hacked
We may also have doubts or insecurity as to whether our passwords have been violated. It is possible that our credentials have been exposed in a data security breach or information theft. Don't worry, Google offers us a function to see if our passwords have been violated or reused by someone alien to us.
To access this function we must access our Profile> Configuration> Passwords> Check passwords. Here we can see if our passwords have been violated and, therefore, we must take the measures in this regard (change or remove password).
If we want to prevent our passwords from being hacked or stolen, first of all we must choose one that is as secure as possible or make use of password managers that generate keys using advanced algorithms. Here we leave you a post with the best tips to make your passwords as secure as possible and prevent them from being stolen.