How to Use Google's Password Manager to Save Login Credentials

Are you tired from typing username and password in your Social account like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkdin, YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr, Digg etc and Email account such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail. Need not to worry, you can try Google Chrome built in Password manager that offers to save your username and password whenever you sign in to a website using chrome. 

How to Use Google's Password Manager to Save Login Credentials

Google solution also offers a web app, mobile apps, deep integration with Android and automatic generation of strong password. 

How to use Google Password Manager 

Download and install Google Chrome on your desktop, smartphone or tablet and sign in to your Google account. Navigate to Chrome's Settings, click the "Advanced Sync settings" button and ensure Chrome is set to sync passwords. 

Google Chrome Password Manager Settings


Note : If you choose to encrypt your password with "Your own sync passphrase", you won't be able to access your passwords on the web. Smart Lock for Password on Android won't be function, either.

You should also ensure Chrome is set to offer to save your passwords. From Chrome's Settings Screen, search for "Password" tick the following settings under "Autofill and forms".
  • Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to Google
  • Enable Autofill to fill out web forms in a single click
  • Offers to save your web passwords

Now open any website and sign in normally, Google Chrome will ask if you want to save the username and password you used on that website and click on "Agree" to save credentials. When you visit the website login page next time, Chrome will automatically fill in your username and password.

How to Automatically Generate Strong Passwords


Its a hidden feature in Google Chrome that allows you to generate random password and save them to your Smart Lock. To access this feature, type chrome://flags into Chrome's address bar and press enter to access the list of flags. Locate the "Enable Password Generation" flag and set it to "Enabled". 


How to Generate Strong Password

Next time you create a password, Chrome will detect that you're using an account creation page and offer to automatically fill and save a random password for you. 

How to access your Password in Google Password Manager

Google Chrome is available for all platforms, including iOS and Android phones and thus you always have access to your saved password. However if you prefer using a different browser like safari on iPhone or Microsoft Edge on Windows 10, you can still access all your account password saved inside Chrome via password.google.com. 


Open the Google Password website and login to your Google account to find a list of every single account that you've used to sign-in in Chrome. To view the password, click the corresponding eye icon. 

There's Android app called "Smart Lock for Passwords" that integrates with Google's password manager to automatically log you into apps that support it. Popular services like Netflix, Orbitz, Instacart and Eventbrite already have it live.

If someone gains access to your main Google account password, they have access to your entire library of passwords through the Google Passwords website, that why you should use 2 factor authorization for your Google Account.