{"id":154614,"date":"2022-11-29T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=154614"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:17:51","slug":"how-to-save-a-password-in-chrome-when-not-asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-save-a-password-in-chrome-when-not-asked\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Save a Password in Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suppose you\u2019ve also become accustomed to the ease of having <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chrome <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">do all the heavy lifting in terms of saving payment and password information; welcome to the 21st century. Why worry about carrying around a notepad and pen if you can automatically press &#8216;save&#8217;?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can happen that Chrome doesn&#8217;t prompt you to save your password. Don&#8217;t panic! You didn&#8217;t break the application, it just needs some nudging, or you can opt to save your info manually.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why does Chrome not automatically ask to save my password?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;re working on a new device, whether on a PC or Mac, the process is the same. You&#8217;ll need to ensure that your settings are allowing&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/mac\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chrome<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to save passwords. Also, keep in mind that when you clear your caches, it could reset to default, and you have to store it again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-154617\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/settings-password_xt7dvl-300x214.jpg\" width=\"1033\" height=\"736\"><\/p>\n<h3>Steps to save a password in Chrome<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click on the &#8216;Menu&#8217; button in the right corner<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Select &#8216;Settings&#8217; from the drop-down menu.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the &#8216;People&#8217; section, click on &#8216;Passwords.&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enable the &#8216;Offer to save passwords&#8217; feature.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the setting is already enabled when you get there, try to restart your device. You can also save payment info and passwords manually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-154618\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/Chrome-Fix-Ask-Password-15_4d470f76dc99e18ad75087b1b8410ea9_kfxqci-300x151.jpg\" width=\"695\" height=\"350\"><\/p>\n<h2><b>How to save passwords manually if Chrome doesn&#8217;t prompt you<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s very quick to save your password manually following these three steps.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open Chrome&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create and save your password and enter all your information<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the &#8216;Password Save&#8217; icon on the right side of the address bar<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;re on your phone and it doesn&#8217;t show the &#8216;Password Save&#8217; icon, you can delete your passwords and sign on again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-154619\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/2019-03-07_14h54_12_qpc0r7.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"313\"><\/p>\n<h2><b>What other web browsers can I use?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you decide to use more than one web browser to make sure you have more options, you can also download <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mozilla-firefox.en.softonic.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mozilla Firefox<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-edge.en.softonic.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft Edge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. You can try out as many as you need to find the one that best suits your needs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you\u2019ve also become accustomed to the ease of having Chrome do all the heavy lifting in terms of saving payment and password information; welcome to the 21st century. Why worry about carrying around a notepad and pen if you can automatically press &#8216;save&#8217;?&nbsp; It can happen that Chrome doesn&#8217;t prompt you to save your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-save-a-password-in-chrome-when-not-asked\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Save a Password in Chrome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":180671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2359],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-154614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-chrome"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322823,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154614\/revisions\/322823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154614"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=154614"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=154614"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=154614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}