Your Google account allows you to remember passwords that you use, frequently or infrequently, to log in to web services or through apps. Here’s how to get your hands on it again when needed.
It is still impossible today to escape password hell. Web services, apps and other sites ask you to identify yourself with a username or email address and a password that you defined when you registered. And like many users, the multiplication of these elements sows confusion in your memory. Also, you may be using a password manager like Dashlane, NordPass, 1Password, etc. or simply the one provided by Google on Android. Practical, it allows you to memorize – at your request – the usernames and passwords that you can enter here and there to log in. Easy to use, this tool integrated into Android is not limited to mobiles but remains closely linked to your Google account. It allows you to get control of your saved passwords from any computer or device connected to the Internet… as long as you remember your password to access your Google account.
Don’t look for a Google app dedicated to password management on your mobile. Since they are saved directly in your Google account, you have to dig into your smartphone settings. Depending on the different software overlays applied by Android mobile manufacturers, the menu names may vary.
► Access the settings of your Android smartphone. In the long list of proposed settings, find the menu Passwords and account. If you can’t find it, go directly to the menu Google settings, present by default on all Android smartphones.
► Once the page is displayed, tap the tile Password manager Google.
► A new settings page appears. Check that the switch Use autofill with Google is activated (for example, this is not the case if you use another password manager). Press on Google Password Manager.
► A list of all web services and apps for which a username and password have been saved by Google is now displayed.
► To reveal the password associated with an account, tap its name. You will need to identify yourself to have access (fingerprint, facial recognition or PIN code). Then all you have to do is press the eye icon at the end of the field including the famous sesame to reveal it.
You don’t have your smartphone on hand and you want to know a password saved in your Google account? This is possible by logging in with a simple web browser.
► Open any web browser and go to the page of Google password management. On the screen that appears, click To log in and identify yourself with your Google credentials. Note that if you are already connected to your Google account in another tab (on Gmail for example), you will not have to identify yourself.
► A new page is displayed and presents the list of passwords saved in your Google account. Click on the account whose password you want to reveal.
► After authenticating with your Google account (for security reasons), you can access the web service or app file which includes your identifiers. Click on the eye icon at the end of the field Password to display your sesame clearly.
► Please note, if the device you are using to carry out these operations – computer, tablet or smartphone – does not belong to you, do not forget to log out of your Google account before closing the browser tab. Otherwise, anyone could have access to your valuable password list for a few minutes.