Chrome not showing Saved Passwords

Question

My saved passwords are not being populated on sites I visit anymore. I recently downloaded Ubuntu 16 and I seem to have lost my Passwords on my newly installed Google chrome. I checked the following.

1. I have password sync settings turned on in chrome for all my devices (Macbook Air, Samsung Phone, Windows PC).
2. I verified that the google account is the correct one which I have always used to save and sync passwords and other chrome settings.
3. I checked passwords.google.com, making sure it is the correct account and all the saved passwords are gone! I had about 200+ saved passwords previously. So they don't show up on the devices and on my google cloud account anymore!
4. I should also add that along with passwords, the saved addresses are also gone from Chrome settings. The payment methods however still seem to be there.

Of course, I never explicitly deleted or ask to delete passwords from any of my devices.

How should I recover them all in Ubuntu Google Chrome?

Answer 1

I just resolved this issue using "Remove Person"

Step 1 Go to the "Other Person Setting" by clicking your photo on the Google-chrome web browser in the rightmost corner.

step 2 Remove person

step 3 Login again with your Gmail account which has Saved Password details.

step 4 Turn on Sync

This should sync all the Google Chrome settings as well as your Saved Passwords.

Answer 2

Same issue on my Chrome on latest Linux Plasma/KDE

Fixed with:

• goto chrome://flags/
• enable #clean-undecryptable-passwords
• restart chrome

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1251355#c20

Answer 3

In my case, it's because of the disk access control of Chrome. Chrome saving password requires access to the disk. Some versions of Mac OS like Big Sur & Mojave will block chrome from saving passwords if the user not given chrome disk asscess.

system preference > security & privacy > privacy tab > Fill Disk Access > Unlock Settings and Add Chrome to the access list