Summary

Modern browsers offer to save your passwords and fill them in automatically. This article explains how to view, edit, delete, and manage saved passwords in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, and how to use the built-in password generator.

Section 6 covers the setting most people never look at: whether those passwords sync to an account, and what that means when the account is a work one.

Before You Start

• Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome installed on your computer.

Instructions

1. View Saved Passwords in Microsoft Edge

Find passwords stored in Edge.

1. Open Edge and click the three-dot menu (⋯) in the top-right corner.
2. Select Settings > Profiles > Passwords.
3. A list of saved websites and usernames appears.
4. Click the eye icon next to a password to reveal it. You will be prompted to enter your Windows PIN or password to verify your identity.

2. View Saved Passwords in Google Chrome

Find passwords stored in Chrome.

1. Open Chrome and click the three-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner.
2. Select Passwords and autofill > Google Password Manager.
3. A list of saved websites and usernames appears.
4. Click a site name, then click the eye icon to reveal the password. Verify your identity with your Windows PIN or password.

3. Edit or Delete a Saved Password

Update outdated credentials or remove entries.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Go to Settings > Profiles > Passwords.
2. Click the three-dot menu (⋯) next to the entry.
3. Select Edit to change the username or password, or Delete to remove it. Deleting removes the browser's saved copy and nothing else — the account itself is untouched, and you can sign in and save it again. If the password is not also in a password manager or written down somewhere, you will need to reset it on that site next time.

Google Chrome:

1. Go to Passwords and autofill > Google Password Manager.
2. Click the site name.
3. Click Edit to update, or Delete to remove the entry.

4. Enable or Disable the Save Password Prompt

Control whether the browser asks to save new passwords.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Go to Settings > Profiles > Passwords.
2. Toggle Offer to save passwords on or off.

Google Chrome:

1. Go to Passwords and autofill > Google Password Manager > Settings.
2. Toggle Offer to save passwords on or off.

5. Use the Built-In Password Generator

Let the browser create a strong password for you.

1. When creating a new account or changing a password on a website, click the password field.
2. The browser suggests a strong password in a dropdown.
3. Click Use suggested password (Edge) or Use password (Chrome).
4. The password is automatically saved to the browser's password manager.

For the full walkthrough — including on an iPhone, where the generator belongs to iOS rather than to the browser — see how to use the browser password generator.

6. Turn Password Sync On or Off

Syncing decides whether a saved password stays on this computer or travels to the account you signed the browser into.

That sounds like a convenience setting. On a work computer it is closer to an ownership setting, because the account holding those passwords is one your employer controls.

What syncing actually does with your passwords:

• Microsoft Edge syncs a list of data types to the account you signed the browser in with, and Passwords is one of them. On a work profile, that account is your work account, held in your employer's Microsoft 365 tenant.
• Google Chrome keeps passwords in your Google Account when you are signed in to Chrome, which is how they reach your other signed-in devices. When you are not signed in, they stay on the device where you saved them.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Select the three-dot menu (⋯), then Settings > Profiles > Sync.
2. A list of the features and data types available for sync appears, each with a toggle down the right side.
3. Turn the Passwords toggle Off. New passwords stop being uploaded and changes on your other devices stop arriving. Passwords already saved in this copy of Edge stay in it, and passwords already synced stay in the account until you delete them there — turning the toggle off does not clear either side.

Google Chrome:

1. Select the three-dot menu (⋮), then Passwords and autofill > Google Password Manager.
2. Select Settings.
3. Read the top of the page. It states whether passwords are being saved to your Google Account or to this device only, and Chrome decides that by whether you are signed in.
4. To keep passwords on this computer only, sign out of Chrome for that profile, or turn password syncing off in that profile's sync settings. Signing out leaves the passwords already on the device in place; it stops new ones travelling.

If your browser says it is managed by your organization

A work profile does not hand you the full set of switches. In Edge, administrators have policies that turn sync off entirely, exclude specific data types such as passwords from it, or force sync on without showing the consent prompt — and that last one is not something you can turn off from your end. Edge sync on a work account also depends on the organization holding the right subscription, so "no sync options at all" is a normal state rather than a fault.

Be precise about what this does and does not mean. Your IT team cannot open a list and read your saved passwords. What they control is whether syncing happens, which data types are included, and whether the work profile stays on the machine at all — which brings us to the part that catches people out.

What happens to those passwords when you leave

This is the reason the section is here, and it runs both ways.

• Personal passwords saved in a work profile leave with the job. The profile belongs to the work account. When that account is blocked or removed, or the device is retired or wiped by IT, the work profile and everything saved in it goes with it. Your personal bank login, saved into Edge on the work laptop because it was in front of you at the time, disappears on your last day — and there is nobody to ask, because it was never IT's to give back.
• Work passwords saved in a personal profile stay behind. The shared supplier account you saved into Chrome on your home machine is still sitting there, still filling itself in, months after you left. Your old employer has no way to reach it and no way to know it exists.

The rule that follows is short: work passwords in the work profile, personal passwords in the personal profile, and never the crossover. Set the two profiles up once, in How to Set Up Multiple Browser Profiles, and the rule mostly keeps itself.

If you are reading this with a leaving date already in the diary, do one pass now. Open the password list in your work profile as described in sections 1 and 2, move anything personal into a password manager or your personal profile, then delete it from the work profile. Deleting the browser's saved copy does not touch the account itself — you keep the login, the work browser stops holding it.

Troubleshooting

INFO

Passwords already synced to an account stay in that account after you turn syncing off — the toggle stops the traffic, it does not clean up either end. To remove a password everywhere, delete the entry itself (section 3) while you are still signed in and syncing, so the deletion reaches your other devices too.

Symptom / Error	Potential Cause	Solution
Password prompt never appears	Feature disabled	Go to password settings and toggle Offer to save passwords on.
Saved password not auto-filling	Website changed its login page	Delete the old entry and save the password again by logging in manually.
Cannot view passwords (identity prompt fails)	Windows Hello not configured	Set up a Windows PIN or password in Settings > Accounts > Sign-in options so the browser can verify your identity.

Related Articles

• How to Set Up and Use a Password Manager at Work
• How to Set Up Multiple Browser Profiles
• How to Change Your Microsoft 365 Password
• How to Use the Microsoft Authenticator App
• Understanding Microsoft Edge vs. Google Chrome — A Side-by-Side Comparison

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