How to stop Chrome from asking for a PIN when autocompleting passwords

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Chrome recently started making you enter a PIN every time you need it to remember your password.

Making sure it's you password
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A recent version of Google Chrome for Windows seems to have added an extra — and annoying — new security feature that's enabled by default. Where the old Chrome would just remember and fill in your usernames and passwords, the new one asks you for your Windows PIN — or, if you have Windows Hello setup, a facial / fingerprint login — every single time you want it to enter a stored password. 

This prevents someone who just walks over to your PC from logging in as you. However, if your computer is physically secure, it's another step you have to take possibly dozens of times per day.

Fortunately, you can change a setting in Chrome for Windows that makes it autocomplete your passwords without asking for a PIN or biometric login. Just follow these simple steps.

How to stop Chrome from asking for a login when autocompleting passwords

1. Navigate to chrome://password-manager/settings.

2. Toggle "Use Windows Hello when filling passwords" to off.

Toggle use WIndows Hello to off

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3. Enter your PIN or other credentials when prompted.

Enter your PIN or other credentials

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From now on, your username and password should be autofilled into forms where you've used them before. You won't be prompted to enter a PIN or use facial / fingerprint recognition.

Avram Piltch
Avram Piltch
Avram Piltch is Tom's Hardware's editor-in-chief. When he's not playing with the latest gadgets at work or putting on VR helmets at trade shows, you'll find him rooting his phone, taking apart his PC or coding plugins. With his technical knowledge and passion for testing, Avram developed many real-world benchmarks, including our laptop battery test.
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  • MWeiss89
    Or use Firefox instead.
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  • BillyBuerger
    MWeiss89 said:
    Or use Firefox instead.
    I use firefox and I've seen some of these popping up. Firefox has a similar option to disable this but it already was disabled. I was fighting with it for a bit. I don't think it happens anymore but I don't recall what the issue was or how I got rid of it. Either way, it's pretty freakin' annoying and stupid. I already have a master password on my Firefox saved passwords so don't want a second login on top of that.
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  • FoxTread3
    October 17, 2024 - Your comment, "I don't recall what the issue was or how I got rid of it". Reflects something I have found my self saying any number of times. I'll have a computer "issue", and I will jump through all kinds of hoops to solve the problem, but often... I don't remember what I did to solve the problem. Which sucks because I may have the same issue in the future and will possibly have to go through the whole process again. Stay well :giggle:
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  • FoxTread3
    Admin said:
    Chrome recently started making you enter a PIN every time you need it to remember your password. Here's how to stop it from doing that.

    How to stop Chrome from asking for a PIN when autocompleting passwords : Read more
    October 17, 2024 - This is not a problem for me, because I don't want anyone other than myself remembering my passwords. That would apply especially to any of the companies that promote "convenience", which requires including them in my security sphere. I would rather write down my many passwords and hide them in trees and/or cats' butts before I would trust Google/Chrome, or Microsoft/edge/Windows to store any of my passwords. These are the same wonderful folks that while "Hovering up" all of your important data and info. Get hacked, and then straight faced, say, "Sorry about that, and we encourage you to monitor the various Credit recording agencies to see if your information is being used, or attempted to have been used, by criminals. "Convenience" and the other Devil's daughter, "Syncing" are the easiest ways to get your personal info compromised.
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