Google has a habit of duplicating things, then merging them and deleting the copies that are no longer needed. Something similar happened with Google Chrome saved passwords. Until now, Google Chrome showed saved passwords in its settings, but now it redirects you to Google’s password manager.
The novelty comes alongside new direct access to Google’s password manager, hinting that Google is planning focus all related tasks on the password manager itself (which belongs to the Google app) instead of duplicating efforts in other apps, like Google Chrome.
Stop seeing your saved passwords in Chrome
Google Chrome 103 is currently rolling out through Google Play as an update, and you’ll notice a difference the next time you want to verify a saved password. The old Passwords menu in the configuration becomes password manager.
Whereas with the old Passwords menu you could see the passwords saved in your Google Account directly in Google Chrome, the new Password Manager menu redirects you to Google Password Manager, which is part of the Google app. This is the same as using the new password manager shortcut.
Google Chrome 102 and Google Chrome 103
The change makes sense in a way, because in a synced account, passwords are synced from the Google account, thus being available on both sites. As Google added more features like password verification and automatic password change, this meant include duplicate functions in Chrome and in the Google app.
Now things are changing if you don’t use account sync or even if you are using Google Chrome without a Google account or even without Google services, there is no Google password manager installed. In this case, Google Chrome 103 keeps the old password section as it was, with locally saved passwords and retaining the verify passwords
In short, if you’re using Google Chrome with a synced Google account, when you want to check a saved password now, the browser will take you to Google’s password manager. If you don’t use a Google account, everything will remain the same, at least for now. Google Chrome version 103 is rolling out to Google Play and should reach everyone within the next few hours or days.
