Our Android devices are linked inextricably to Google, and if you’ve got a Google account, you’ve probably got a whole host of passwords stored on it which you can access from your Android device if you ever forget them.
There are two main ways to find your email password on Android. To learn how to use our methods to find your Google saved passwords via Android, simply follow our step-by-step instructions below. For anything else, see our FAQ section at the end of this article.
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How to find your email password on Android (Method #1)
- On your Android device, find and launch the Chrome app by tapping its icon
- Once the Chrome app has launched, tap the three vertical dots in the upper-right corner of the screen
- From the drop-down menu, select the ‘Settings’ icon shaped like a gear or cog
- Locate and tap on the option ‘Passwords’ from the next screen
- You can now scroll down through a list of all of the passwords you have ever saved to your Google account.
- To find your email password, look for the link corresponding to your email provider (hotmail, live, yahoo, aol, etc.)
- Once you’ve found your email provider and the correct email associated with it for which you wish to recover the password, tap on it
- You will now see ‘Password’ with a row of dots beneath it hiding your actual email password from view
- Tap on the eye icon to the right of the hidden password
- You will be asked to unlock using your phone lock code to view the password; enter this now and press ‘Next’
- Congratulations, you have now found your email password
- Repeat as necessary until you’ve found all of your email passwords
How to find your email password on Android (Method #2)
- On your Android device, find and launch the Settings app by tapping its icon
- Once the Settings app has launched, tap the search bar at the top of the screen
- Using your pop-up Android keyboard, type in ‘Password Manager’ and hit the magnifying glass ‘search’ icon at the bottom-right of the keyboard
- Tap on the option ‘Password Manager: See, change or remove passwords that you saved in your Google Account’
- You will now be asked to select which Google Account of yours you wish to view the saved passwords of, tap your chosen account
- You can now see a full list of all of the websites and apps you have a password saved for, which you can either scroll through or filter using the search bar at the top of the list
- Locate your email provider (hotmail, live, yahoo, aol, etc.) and the correct associated email address for which you need the password
- Once you’ve found your email provider and the correct email associated with it for which you wish to recover the password, tap on it
- You will be asked to unlock using your phone lock code to view the password; enter this now and press ‘Next’
- Tap the eye icon to the right of your hidden email password
- Congratulations, you have now found your email password
- Repeat as necessary until you’ve found all of your email passwords
And there you have it! Two easy ways to find your email address on Android. For anything else, see our FAQs below.
FAQs
What other passwords can you store on Android?
When we talk about storing passwords on our Android devices, we’re actually talking about storing passwords on our Google account, which we then access through our Androids. The passwords themselves aren’t technically stored on your Android smartphone or tablet, only accessed through it.
Nevertheless, your Google account is capable of storing a whole range of passwords for any number of apps and/or websites. These passwords may belong, for example, to your eBay account, YouTube account, AirBnB or Asos account. Basically anything you use a password for may be stored in the Google Chrome app on your Android phone, provided you’ve chosen to save the password to your Google account when using it on a device previously.
If you haven’t saved the password to your email on Google, then you’ll not be able to find it on your Android, but will instead have to reset it by visiting your particular email website. To learn how to find your email password on your Android, see our step-by-step tutorials above.
Who else can see my email password on Android?
Androids are super secure, meaning that for anyone (including you) to gain access to the data bank of saved passwords you have stored in Google Chrome, you’ll still need to use the phone or tablet lock code to access them. If you use a number password, pattern password, fingerprint or Face ID recognition to enter your phone, then you’ll need to use this to access your saved passwords.
However, if you don’t have any additional security measures in place on your Android to unlock it, then anyone who knows how would technically be able to gain access to, and thus find your email password on Android. We highly recommend always having a passcode set up to unlock your phone with, for this and myriad other reasons.
Is it secure to store my passwords on my Android?
You’re technically not storing your passwords on Android, but on Google, which you access via your Android device. Nevertheless, you typically need to enter a passcode just to access the passwords in the first place, making it perfectly secure to store your passwords on Google and access them through Android.
If you’ve concerns as to the security this affords you, or as to other people accessing your stored passwords on Android, then we recommend not saving your passwords to Google in the first place, and instead keeping a physical list of them in a safe place, to which you can refer back to whenever you can’t remember a specific password.
