How to Use Suggest Strong Password in Edge Computer

Nowadays, there’s always an increased risk of our account being accessed by unauthorized users or being a part of an unwanted data breach. To mitigate these risks or, rather, avoid them in the first place, there are quite a few methods that you could opt for. These include the likes of setting up a two-factor authenticator or two-step verification.

However, both of them act as an additional layer of security. The first one is still your account credentials. Until and unless you set up a strong password involving a combination of alphanumeric characters and symbols, the clouds of uncertainties will always surround your account.

With that said, choosing such a password and then remembering it is no easy task either. Fortunately, you can now leave all that to your browser. Microsoft Edge comes with a built-in Password Manager that automatically suggests a strong password as and when you are about to create a new one.

Furthermore, it will save this password to your account, which can be accessed from all your signed-in devices. So with that in mind, let’s check out the steps to enable and use this Edge’s Suggest Strong Password feature.

Suggest Strong Password

These passwords suggested by Edge are a combination of random upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. As a result, it might become a tedious task to remember them. Therefore, a better approach is to let the browser save this password to your account.

Not only will it negate the need to remember these strong passwords manually, but it will also make it possible to access them from all the signed-in devices. Therefore before you start using this feature, it is highly recommended that you sign in to this browser via your Microsoft Account.

Sign in to Browser

It’s helpful and easy for the browser to remember different passwords for different accounts. Microsoft Edge offers saves and syncs passwords, eliminating the effort of storing the passwords elsewhere. All we need is to sign in to the Edge browser using a Microsoft account.

Here are the steps to sign in Microsoft Edge browser:

1. Launch the Microsoft Edge on your PC.
2. Click on the Profile icon situated at the top right.
3. Hit on the Sign in button.
   
4. Click the Microsoft Account option, type in your credentials, and confirm.
   If you’re already signed in with a Microsoft account on Windows PC, you can directly use that account.
   You shall be getting a few pop-ups and personalized settings.
5. Click on the Allow or  No, Thanks button per your preferences.
   
6. Complete the Sign-in process.

That’s it. Your account is now added. You can verify the same by clicking on your profile icon at the top.

You will be signed in to your Microsoft Edge account using your Microsoft account.

Enable Suggest Strong Password Option

Once the account has been added to the Edge browser, you may enable the Suggest Strong Password feature in Edge’s PC build. The Edge browser will automatically detect the password field and suggest the most robust password combination that is hard to remember.

Here are the steps to enable Suggest Strong Passwords:

1. Launch the Microsoft Edge app on your PC.
2. Click on More for menu options, and select Settings.
3. Go to the Profiles section and click on Passwords.
4. Enable the Suggest Strong Password toggle button.
   

This will immediately enable the vital password suggestion feature within the Edge browser. Just relaunch the browser to make this work seamlessly.

Save Passwords

Once you have added your account and enabled the strong password suggestions, let’s instruct Edge to save and sync these passwords with all your linked devices.

Here are the steps to save the strong suggested password:

1. Launch the Edge app on your PC.
2. Click on More for menu options, and select Settings.
3. Go to the Profiles section, and click on Passwords.
4. Enable the option Offer to Save passwords toggle button.
   

From now on, all your passwords (including the suggested ones) will be synced and saved to your account, granted your reply is in the affirmative in the pop-up dialog box.

Try out Password Suggestions

Now that we have checkmarked all the required prerequisites, it’s time to put this feature to the test. You can visit any website where you want to create a strong password. This will also work if you change the passwords for any existing account.

Here are the steps to check the strong password suggestion:

1. Head over to the account creation page on the site of your choice.
2. Input the required details, and click on the Password field.
3. A drop-down menu will now appear, Hit on Suggest strong password command.
   Microsoft Edge shall bring up a randomly generated password.
4. Select the suggested password to apply in the password field.
   
5. Proceed to account signup and creation.

Once done, the associated details of this account (including the suggested password) will be synced and saved to your Microsoft account.

Bottom Line

So this was all from this guide on creating and using Suggest Strong Password in Edge PC. This Chromium-based browser comes with a decent password manager functionality, and adding the feature above to its arsenal will be pretty helpful for the end user.

Moreover, it is highly recommended that you sign in to your account before trying out this feature. Otherwise, it would be really challenging to note this randomly generated password.

On that note, we round off this guide. If you have any queries concerning the just concluded instructions, do let us know in the comments section below.

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