You can already edit saved Google passwords, but it’s about to get a whole lot easier

One of the little recognized secrets and techniques of Google’s on-line labyrinth of web sites is passwords.google.com, a vacation spot the place you can view, copy, and delete all of the passwords you’ve got agreed to save with Google and/or Chrome. For a whereas, the positioning did not allow you to edit saved passwords, but now it does. And that very same performance can be accessed inside Chrome on Android and desktop (and probably different platforms too), but it requires a trick now. Soon although, it’s going to be carried out natively.

When you modified an internet login that you simply had beforehand saved with Google (be it natively on Android or via Chrome), the one recourse to edit it used to be to delete it first, go to the web site or app once more, enter your new particulars, and agree to have Google save them. No different password supervisor price its salt would make you undergo that hoop, so it’s good to see Google fixing this.

First, the passwords.google.com web page now presents an edit choice for all saved logins. So you can change your username and/or password. But you might typically overlook to entry that web site, and even if you do, Google often asks you to log in once more (together with 2FA if it’s enabled) to confirm your identification.

To make the method a little easier, I recommend you select that web site to be your default password supervisor in Chrome. Head over to chrome://flags/#google-password-manager (copy the URL and paste it) be it on Android or desktop, allow the flag, then reboot Chrome. When it’s achieved, go to Chrome’s settings, search for Passwords, and the brand new UI shall be loaded as an alternative of Chrome’s native one. There, you can view, copy, delete, and edit any login element you’ve got saved with Google.

Compared to Chrome’s authentic password interface, this UI provides you broader management, together with enhancing. And in contrast to manually opening the Passwords web site, you get quicker verification utilizing solely your cellphone’s PIN or fingerprint.

If you don’t need to tinker with Chrome flags, there’s nonetheless extra hope on the horizon. According to a Chromium bug tracker problem found by 9to5Google, the Chrome group is engaged on including this natively in Chrome’s personal password supervisor. The request has been pending since 2014, but it’s now been assigned and shall be coming to Android first, probably adopted by desktop.

When it’s stay, it’s going to be beneath the chrome://flags/#password-editing-android flag. It’ll in all probability present up for Canary first, then make its manner down to the secure channel. We’ll maintain a watch open and allow you to know when that occurs.