Now that you have all the software set up, you’re finally ready to use the password manager for what it’s designed to do: Create and store log-in credentials for all your many online services.
Whenever you open the log-in window of a website, say from Netflix or your bank, you should be able to click on an icon to open your password manager. If you’ve turned off the auto-fill feature in your browser or your password manager, you can open your password manager manually using the desktop app, another browser tab, or the browser extension.
If you’re setting up a new online account, you can click on a button or two to have your password manager generate a password for that new account. But more often, it will probably be an account you’ve already set up—your email or bank account, let’s say. You can enter your existing credentials and click on a button to store them in the password manager.
But because one of the important features of a password manager is to create stronger passwords, the best plan is to log in, go to the site’s “change your password” page, and have the password manager create and store a new, much stronger password for the site.
If you’re in a browser, this is particularly easy. For phone apps, the process varies. Your password manager may be able to log in to your apps automatically, or you may need to toggle back and forth to the password manager’s app to copy and paste your new password.
Here’s an important note, whether you’re setting up passwords in an app or a website. Ideally, every new password will be at least 16 characters long, just like your master password. But some accounts have shorter length limitations and might not permit certain special symbols or characters. In that case, your password manager will just have to do the best it can.
But make sure to check the password manager’s settings afterward. I once changed my generated password requirements on 1Password to just eight characters to meet one service’s rules and then realized that 1Password now thought I wanted all my new passwords to be that short. I had to go into Settings to change it back.
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