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Chrome it is certainly very popular in the Android sector, both for the fact of being pre-installed on phones that for the impressive number of functions, but despite this, many users prefer others browser due to some more or less serious limitations, including the impossibility of using third-party password managers (do you want to know which are the best browsers for Android? Discover them in our selection).
Now, however, Google has at least filled this gap by adding one new setting, discovered by Leopeva64 who published the steps to activate it on X. Let’s find out how to do it.
How to enable autofill with other password managers on Chrome
Leopeva64 had discovered the first clues about the possibility of being able to use the automatic compilation with third-party password managers in November, and now the feature is finally live.
To use it, you can use a any version of Chrome, also the stable one, but you will have to activate a flag by entering this address:
chrome://flags/#enable-autofill-virtual-view-structure
Touch the first one drop down menu at the top (under the item highlighted in yellow) and select Enable, then touch the button at the bottom Relaunch. When Chrome restarts, tap i three dots at the top right and select Settings.
Then select Autofill Options and on the following page, tick a Use other providers.
In order to use a password manager third-party applications, however, you must have them installed and enabled. To do this, after installing the relevant app and activating the setting for automatic compilation (on Bitwarden for example you have to go to the app settings, tap Autofill and then activate the relevant switch), you must go to the settings of the telephone.
Touch here Password and account and select Google (if default) under the tab Autofill service. Choose the password manager third-party and this will become the tool also used by Chrome for compiling passwords.
Unfortunately, at the moment the tool allows you to enter passwords from the new password manager but not to save a new one. In this case it will refer you to Google Password Manager.
