Google Chrome is a popular web browser that already offers a number of useful functions related to managing your passwords. This way you can save your passwords in the browser and it can periodically check whether they are not part of a leak. Now Google is taking it a step further by further streamlining the login process itself, with a feature called Touch to Fill.
Google has been working on the options for the autofill option for a while. This means that certain fields on a website are automatically provided with information when you give permission for this. Think of addresses or payment details. So now Google is working on an improved version of autofill for your passwords stored in the Chrome browser.
Users of the Chrome Beta on Android report that a new option for autofill is now being rolled out: Touch to Fill. If you are not using the beta and do not want to wait for the function to roll out to the stable version, you can activate the option via chrome: // flags. You copy that url to the address bar and then look up Touch to Fill.
Chrome streamlines web logins
You will then see the following text.
Touch To Fill UI for Passwords
Adds a Touch To Fill sheet to the keyboard accessory which will be shown instead of the keyboard when a password can be filled.
# touch-to-fill
When you have activated the function and you try to log in to a website, you will be presented with a new interface. That is the new prompt for Touch to Fill within Chrome. Normally the keyboard opens, but now you will see an overview of saved passwords and profiles. Swiping up will reveal more options. When you swipe up the prompt, there is also a shortcut to your password manager within Chrome at the bottom.
If you were not planning to use one of the saved profiles, don’t worry. Then you can swipe the prompt down and then call up the keyboard by tapping the input field again. Then you can enter a profile name and password of your choice.
Since the option is already available in the beta of Chrome and can be flagged within the stable version of the browser, we don’t expect it to be very long before Google officially rolls out the option. It is not yet known when that will happen.
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