Microsoft Edge browser lets you remember and manage passwords in Windows 10. Although the feature is pretty basic, it is good enough and meets the purpose. Like most browsers, Edge also supports Form-fill. This feature remembers your oft-filled information and offers to fill the web forms automatically for you. This post has now been updated for the new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser.
Enable Passwords & Form-fill in Microsoft Edge
To enable Passwords and Form-fill and manage saved passwords:
- Launch Edge browser
- Go to Settings
- Enable Offer to save passwords’ option
- Edit or remove passwords here.
Read the instructions below for more details.
Open Edge Settings
Launch Edge browser
Go to ‘Settings and more‘ option (visible as 3 dots) and choose ‘Settings‘ option.
Alternatively, you can enter this in the address bar, and hit the Enter button to access these password settings.
edge://settings/profiles
Read: Microsoft Edge keeps deleting saved passwords
Enable ‘Offer to save passwords’ option in Edge
Next, select ‘Passwords‘ option under your profile.
Here you can find four options:
- Offer to save passwords: If you disable this option, your browser won’t show the Save passwords message that appears after you enter a username and password on a website.
- Sign in automatically
- Saved passwords: It shows all the saved passwords.
- Never saved.
Simply toggle the slider fo ‘Offer to save passwords‘ to ‘On‘ position to enable passwords & Form-fill in the browser.
Read: Edge not remembering passwords.
Edit or remove passwords in Edge
If you wish to manage the passwords, just below ‘Offer to save passwords’ section, you’ll see ‘Saved Passwords‘ panel. Here you will see the list of websites for which Edge has saved your login username and passwords.
To edit it or remove passwords saved for a website, click on the ‘More Actions‘ menu (visible as 3 dots) sign on the right side.
Then, to remove it, either select ‘Delete‘ option.
To edit the same, choose ‘Details‘.
Note: In recent versions of Edge, you may now directly see the Edit password link.
Then, in the ‘Saved password details‘ window that opens (displaying the website URL, the username and password) change it as desired.
The password will not be visible but will be represented by dots.
To view the password, you have to click on the eye-shaped icon.
A Windows Security pop-up will open wherein you have to enter your Windows password or PIN to view your password.
That’s all there to it! This way you can easily enable Passwords & Form-fill in Edge and manage it to your liking.
If you need a feature-rich password management tool, you may check out some of these free password manager software or online password managers.
Why is my autofill not working in Edge?
Autofill will not work if the autofill data is cleared in Edge. Edge has a setting that lets users select what to clear on exit. Here, you can select browsing history, download history, cookies, passwords, autofill data, etc. If the Autofill data option is enabled here, Edge will delete your autofill data every time you close Edge. To check this, open Edge Settings and go to “Privacy, search, and services > Clear browsing data > Choose what to clear every time you close the browser.” Also, make sure that the “Offer to save password” and “Autofill passwords” options are enabled in your Profile settings in Edge.
Where are passwords stored in Microsoft Edge?
You can view all your saved passwords in Edge in your profile settings. Open Edge Settings and select the Profiles category from the left side. Select your profile and then click Passwords. You will see your saved passwords under the Saved passwords section. You can view passwords by clicking on the Eye icon, provided you know the admin password of your system.
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Might’ve been nicer and easier for all those looking for the slightly related topic of “What IS my password?” to tell us that the proper password manager is held somewhere entirely different with many ways to get to it!
For example, you could type “Credential Manager” in the Omnibox by the start menu (easiest option); You could open ControlPanel / User Accounts & hit Web Credentials; You could use Google/Bing or any other website to find out. BUT, WHAT YOU CAN’T DO (That you may REALLY want to do) IS: You can’t click a simple link that would open it for you from the “Internet Settings” Harumpth, Harumpth! You do need to supply your PC login password before seeing the passwords, but I guess that’s only fair!
Form Fill has never worked on Edge even though it is turned on.
Chrome is so much easier, faster and intuitive. I feel like I am trying to work with a dinosaur with edge. Come on Gates, get it together!
Thank you for posting this information. I have been clicking and in clicking the same 2 buttons to get edge to save my passwords and fill out forms, over and over. Good to know they are just worthless buttons that do nothing. I was about to buy a new computer. Back to Chrome!
Windows 10 forces updates upon us. Edge is supposedly designed to exploit 10’s efficiencies. How about making Form Fill actually work with one of those updates? And while you’re at it provide a tool to manage the form fill data. If WIN 10 is supposed to be so slick why then after over year of general release is it still so lame in regard to this user convenience? What are you telling us users?
Yep, I’m back on Chrome too. I also started having difficulty typing text into responses like this one when using Edge. When I went to Chrome and typed on the same exact reply I had no problems. Immediately changed my default browser to Chrome again. I may try Edge again in a couple of years.
Just curious how you edit the form filler in Microsoft edge. I want to delete two of the options that pop up when I click in an empty field. It’s simply a delete in other browsers.