Google Chrome could soon let you securely share passwords with family members

Password sharing will only work via Google’s family groups

We’ve been treated to another Chrome leak which shows exactly how a previously leaked feature – the option to share your passwords with other Chrome users – will work.

This again comes from a font of much browser-related knowledge on X (formerly Twitter), Leopeva64.

Previously, Leopeva64 discovered the ability to share passwords on Chrome’s password management page (in testing, back at the end of June), and now they’ve found out how this works.

You’ll be able to click and share passwords – the ones you have stored within Chrome – but only with those who are a member of a Google ‘family group’ apparently.

If you haven’t set up a family group, trying to use this feature will prompt you to do so.

So, your next question is likely – what’s a family group?

Well, the name pretty much gives it away: it’s a small group – of up to six – of your family members with which you can easily share things from the Google ecosystem. (With those shareable elements consisting of passwords, as noted – plus the family group also facilitates functionality such as setting ground rules for what your kids can do online).

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