Google Password Manager In a relatively short time, it has become a tool used by a huge number of people. As we have occasionally recalled, it started as a small feature integrated into Google Chrome that allowed us to save access data to web pages and in this way automatically retrieve and fill them when we visited said pages using the browser.

Initially, it didn’t let you add credentials manually, didn’t let you edit them, didn’t provide information about their security… come on, what? was much more limited in functions, than commercial password management apps and services that already offered all these features, cloud sync, integration into operating systems and so on. However, Google gradually improved it and added new features until it caught up with its now competitors.

It undoubtedly played a key role in its success, its integration in Chrome (well, like I said, it started as a browser feature) and also on Android through the keyboard, which allows you to reset your credentials from any app, not just the browser. Additionally, the introduction of GBoard (Google keyboard) to iOS allows it to be used with the same scope on Apple devices as well. In this way, the search engine managed to become one of the most used tools for key management.

Getting to this point doesn’t mean you can rest on your laurels, so the company continues to improve the tool. So as we can read on Mashable, Google has already started deploying the feature of sharing passwords with trusted people. We already knew it was in the works since the feature was seen in early March, but there was no indication that the tech companies were planning to launch it.

To share your password securely, sender and recipient must be part of a family group (something more than understandable, given the sensitivity of this type of information). At this point, the feature has started rolling out to password manager users on mobile devices, though its jump to the desktop version isn’t expected to be too long. Of course, its launch aims to be progressive, as I have carried out several tests, but at the day and time of publication of this news I did not find this feature on either Android or iOS, so perhaps we still have to wait a bit for its reach to be global.