Google Password Manager will soon let you import passwords right from your phone

Google Password Manager will soon let you import passwords right from your phone،

Google makes our lives a little easier in the password management game. If you're like me, juggling dozens of logins gets complicated, and if you've chosen to use Google's own password manager (the one you find in Chrome) in favor of third-party ones, you'll find that it's not such a great feature. -rich as can be.

There are several reasons why I prefer to use Google Password Manager. For one thing, it's free, which is always a plus. Second, I find that it works well when you stay within the Google ecosystem. For example, password autofill on my desktop Chrome browser and apps on my Google Pixel device is pretty seamless. However, things can get a little dicey if you want to go a little deeper and import passwords from a CSV file. While this works great on desktop, it hasn't really been an option on mobile…until now.

Google Password Manager on Android devices is part of Google Play Services. As spotted by AssembleDebug in FebruaryA change there was already taking shape as a half-functional option was added to import a CSV file from your phone's storage.

Now, with Play Services v24.12, which is still in beta, this option is now available without the need to enable experimental flags. We've always had the option to export our credentials as a CSV file, but it just wasn't possible to do it the other way around unless we were using the Chrome desktop browser.

Google Password Manager will soon let you import passwords directly from your phone

Image credit: AssembleDebug

The process seems very simple, as you can see in the screenshots above. One thing that remains a bit of a mystery is what exactly is being imported, although it appears that duplicates are being ignored. As it's still in beta, it's of course possible that this will be further tweaked and streamlined as we get closer to a general release, which is likely imminent.