Let your phone remember your passwords

Find the passwords already saved on your own device, read what it has noticed about them, and mend the worst one.

You may well have one already. If your phone has ever filled a password in after you looked at it, you have used one for years.

Key points

• A manager is a locked book: one long password opens it, it remembers the rest
• Write the master password on paper and keep it where you keep a passport
• It will not fill in a fake page, and that silent refusal is a warning worth heeding
• Let it collect passwords as you go rather than moving everything in one evening

What to remember

• The passwords are already saved. Finding the list is the whole job.
• The question is not “is this perfect?” but “is this better than what I do now?”

Try this

Look at what is already saved on your own device — on an iPhone, Settings then Passwords; in Chrome, the three dots then Passwords. Most people find dozens they had no idea about.

Practice: Let your phone remember your passwords. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.

Related guides

• See what a password manager does
• See what autofill fills in
• Answer the Save password box
• Plan for a locked password box
• Why they pick everyone