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# Changing Login Passwords

Changing your weak passwords to strong passwords is quick and painless.

Since each website does things differently, you will need to find the Change Password page for each site. Here is a typical Change Password web page:

First, enter your old password. If you have the password saved in a Login already, you can use 1Password to do this. When restoring a Login, 1Password will intelligently guess where the current password should go. In this case, the saved Login password is put into the first field, which requests your current password.

Now that the current password field is populated, you can generate a unique password for the new one by selecting Strong Password Generator from the 1Password toolbar menu. Clicking Fill will populate all the empty password fields with the newly created password. In this case the New Password and Confirm New Password fields are populated.

Now that the current password, new password, and confirmation password fields are all populated, you can submit the form. 1Password will detect that a Change Password form was submitted, and you will be prompted to update an existing form with the new value:

The saved Login that contains the original password will be selected automatically. Clicking Update will update the password value of the saved Login.

That’s it! You now have a strong password for this website. You can repeat the process for other Logins that use weak passwords.

## Safety Net #1: Login Password History

If you ever need to know the original passwords you used for a Login after you updated them, you can find them in the Password History section in the Login’s Details pane:

Every time you update a Login’s password the original value will be added to this history automatically.

## Safety Net #2: Generated Password History

If you accidentally forget to save the new password for a Login, you can find every password 1Password has generated and filled for you in the application’s Generated Passwords section. Every time a password is generated and filled it will be added here automatically. The visibility of this section is controlled by the 1Password General preferences.

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