Google chrome does not save passwords to keychain anymore

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Google chrome does not save passwords to keychain anymore

Hi there

I use chrome as one of my main browsers and normally save passwords to my keychain. This worked pretty well and after I clicked the «save password» in chrome it not only appeared in my saved passwords saved in my google-passwords, but – more importantly – it appeared in my keychain.

Recently this changed and my passwords are not saved in my keychain anymore.

I don't know what happened and why it stopped working, but I would like to have things back as they were.

I do definitely have the option in google chrome checked, where it says that chrome is allowed to manage my passwords. there is even a note, that chrome «maybe» uses my keychain for that (why only «maybe»??)

Well, I would appreciate any hints.

Thanks in advance

cheers

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Posted on Oct 5, 2015 7:30 AM

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Answer 1

May 30, 2017 10:25 AM in response to mercnr

Doing this

https://crunchify.com/how-to-purge-all-your-google-chrome-user-data-on-mac-os-x/

fixed it for me.

Had to do a bit of granting permission to Chrome extensions and such, but everything came back. I initially panicked because my bookmarks had vanished, but they must've been in the cloud, because they arrived a minute or so later.

The key thing being that Chrome now re-remembers passwords, yay.

https://crunchify.com/how-to-purge-all-your-google-chrome-user-data-on-mac-os-x/

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Nov 6, 2015 9:45 AM in response to mercnr

Hey mercnr,

it seems that Chrome dropped Keychain support in Chrome 45 😢

... they think "that most of the users won't notice anything".

cheers

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Answer 3

Oct 16, 2016 12:53 PM in response to mercnr

Since some people are still wondering this ,

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=466638

Starting in OS X 10.9, Apple introduced the iCloud Keychain. This manifests itself as the “Local Items” keychain in Keychain Access. Items in this keychain are only accessible to applications with the keychain-access-groups entitlement [1][2]. This, like other iCloud entitlements, is “available only to apps submitted to the App Store or to the Mac App Store” [3].

This basically means, only apps that are submitted to Mac App Store can access whether Login Keychain or iCloud Keychain. Chrome is not submitted to the Mac App Store (nor are there any intentions to), so it doesn't have access to keychain anymore.

Also due to the multi-profile function of chrome, passwords saved in keychain can be hard to manage and cause confusion since passwords are not isolated per-profile. That's why chrome group had decided to drop the Keychain integration.

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