How to delete specific autofill entries from Google Chrome?

Not too long ago, Google Chrome allowed users to delete specific autofill entries - either by going into their “Settings -> Autofill Settings -> Delete” the specific entries, or by going to the form you want to delete the autofill entry for, mousing over / pressing down on your keyboard and then pressing Shift+Delete.

Neither of these two methods appear to work any more.

Does anyone know how to delete specific autofill entries from Google Chrome?

Note: I don’t want to delete my passwords / manage passwords. Going to “Settings -> Advanced -> Passwords & Forms -> Autofill” settings doesn’t solve my problem.

Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Del and clearing autofill settings is not what I want; I want to delete specific autofill entries.

5 Answers

Hopefully I haven't oversimplified but I think there'll be enough to answer your question.

Step 1 - For example, click in the "Username" field/input box and press the down arrow (this will bring up a list of remembered "username" auto-fill entries)

Step 2 - Use the down arrow key to highlight the username (auto-fill entry) you want to delete

Step 3 - Press shift+delete, or shift+alt+backspace if you have a Chromebook

Done.

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For macOS:

Shift + Fn + Delete (backspace)

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Based on Brian R. Quigley method:

After clicking inside any auto fill field, you can hover by mouse on the desired entry then press Shift+Delete.

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On a mac, adding the Fn. key is only needed when you have the short keyboard, in the long full sized keyboard you can use Shift+delete keys same as in windows the reason for this is the default del key in the short keyboard is actually a backspace key, but pressing Fn key will turn it to Del

If it’s bookmarked, it won’t be deleted when you press fn+shift+delete. You have to delete the bookmark first.

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It looks to me like google has moved the chrome settings around. I'm not sure if this has to do with your issue, but I just deleted a specific autofill entry by going to settings > passwords (under people just below sync). I also turned off "offer to save passwords" because that was the source of my pain. Random people who logged into amazon in my case, were cluttering my AWS login autofill...

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