How to Change or Update a Saved Password in Chrome

How do I change my Chrome password?

Chrome's Password Manager only stores a copy of a password for autofill — it never changes your password on the website itself. If you meant your Google Account sign-in password (what you use to sign into Chrome and Gmail), that's a different setting covered further down.

If you meant updating a saved login Chrome autofills for a specific site, like your email or a shopping account, go to chrome://settings/passwords, click the site, click the pencil icon, and paste in the new password you already set on that site.

How to open Chrome's Password Manager

1. Type chrome://settings/passwords into the address bar and press Enter.
2. Or click your profile picture in the top-right corner, then click the key icon for Google Password Manager.
3. Or open the three-dot menu > Passwords and autofill > Google Password Manager.

All three paths open the same list of saved passwords, grouped by site, with a search box at the top if you have a lot of saved logins.

How do I edit or update a saved password entry?

Click the site's entry in the password list, confirm your identity if asked, click the pencil icon, and type the new password over the old one.

1. In the password list, click the site or app name you want to update.
2. You may be asked to confirm your Windows/Mac login or Chrome screen lock before the password is revealed.
3. Click the pencil (edit) icon next to the password field.
4. Clear the old password and type the new one, then click Save.

Do I need to change the password on the website too?

Yes. Editing the entry in chrome://settings/passwords changes what Chrome autofills; it does nothing to your account on the actual site.

To actually change the password, sign in to the website directly, open its account or security settings — usually under a name like Security, Password or Account settings — and set a new password there. Only after the website confirms the change should you go back into Chrome's Password Manager and edit the saved copy. Otherwise Chrome keeps offering to autofill the old, now-incorrect password, and you risk confusing yourself about which one you actually set.

How do I use Chrome's password checkup?

Open chrome://settings/passwords, then click Check passwords (sometimes shown next to a shield icon) to scan your saved logins for reused, weak, or breached passwords without checking each site by hand.

Chrome flags each problem password individually and links you to the site so you can change it, but it can't change the password for you — that step still happens on the website.

How do I change my Google Account password?

If you actually want to change the password you use to sign into your Google Account — and therefore Chrome, Gmail and other Google apps — that's not in chrome://settings/passwords at all.

Go to myaccount.google.com/security, sign in, open Security, and click Password under How you sign in to Google. This is a Google Account setting, and changing it signs you out of Chrome sessions on other devices as a security measure — Chrome's own saved-password list is unaffected by it.

Do password changes sync to my phone and other computers?

Yes, once sync finishes — usually within moments if you're online and signed into the same Google Account everywhere.

On Android and iOS, Google Password Manager is also available outside Chrome, under your phone's own settings (Passwords in Android Settings, or through Chrome's own menu on iPhone), since both operating systems can offer Chrome's saved passwords as the default autofill source. Edit a password on your phone and it updates on desktop the same way, and vice versa.

Why can't I edit a saved password in Chrome?

Edit button is missing or grayed out

You're likely on a managed work or school Chrome profile where an administrator has disabled password editing through policy.

Chrome won't reveal the saved password

Chrome asks for your device login (Windows Hello, Mac Touch ID/password, or ChromeOS PIN) before showing a saved password; enter it, or check that a screen lock is set up.

Autofill still uses the old password after editing

Clear the site's cached autofill by closing and reopening the tab, or open the autofill dropdown on the field and remove the outdated suggestion.

Password disappeared after changing it on the website

Chrome often offers to save the new password automatically the next time you sign in; accept that prompt instead of editing the old entry manually.

Should I use a dedicated password manager instead?

Chrome's built-in manager covers editing and checking passwords, but it stays tied to your Google Account and the Chrome browser specifically.

A dedicated password manager extension works the same way across every browser you use, adds features like secure notes or shared family vaults, and usually makes changing a password across many saved accounts less repetitive.