The easiest way to ensure you have strong passwords for each of your accounts is to let Dashlane create them for you.
Every time you create an account online or update a password, you can choose to have Dashlane automatically generate one for you and save the new password in Dashlane for that account.
You can also use the Password Generator to produce passwords to specific standards of length and complexity and use these instead. Finally, you can use Password Changer to quickly and automatically change the passwords for one or even all compatible websites in your vault.
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Generate a strong password from the password field
You can use Dashlane to create and store secure, unique passwords for every account you have.
- Navigate to a website and select the new password field when creating or updating your password.
- Select Use password to generate a new strong, randomly-generated password.
To view the generated password, select the eye icon.
To generate a new password, select the circling arrows icon next to the current password.
To customize the password, select the customization icon on the right to show the full password generator settings in the window. This saves you a trip to the extension window if the website you're visiting has specific password requirements.
Don't forget to save the new password into Dashlane! In the window that pops up, click Save (for a newly added credential) or Replace (for an existing login).
Edit or delete the password you just saved
Generate a password in the Safari, iOS, and Android apps
Safari
To generate a password in the Safari app on a Mac computer, select Password Generator under Security tools.
You also see the generator when manually adding a new password to Dashlane.
iOS (Apple)
To generate a password in the iOS (Apple) app, access the Password Generator when manually adding a new password to Dashlane.
Android
To generate a password in the Android app:
- You can access the Password Generator when manually adding a new password to Dashlane.
Generate a password in the web app
To generate a password in the extension window:
- Select the Dashlane icon to open the extension.
- Select the Generator tab. You can choose the desired length of the password, whether it will contain letters, numbers, or symbols, and whether you wish to avoid using characters that resemble each other such as "i" or "l."
- To generate a new password, select the circling arrows icon next to the current password.
If you change the generator settings, you can save them by selecting Save as default to automatically use these settings to generate any password in this tab or directly on web pages.
- Once you have generated the password you need, select Copy and paste it where you need it.
To generate a password in the web app, access the Password Generator when manually adding a new password to Dashlane.
Use Password Changer to generate a new password
Note: Password Changer is a paid Dashlane feature. If you currently have a free plan, you'll need to upgrade to one of our paid plans to use this feature.
Password Changer allows you to change multiple passwords automatically in one click from the Dashlane app.
Password Changer for the web app
View a list of all your generated passwords
You can always view the passwords generated previously.
In the extension window's Generator tab, select Show history to see a list of the last 20 generated passwords.
In the web app, select View history at the top of your password vault to see the passwords generated and changed over time.
In the Android app, access the password generator and select Generated previously.
Note: Password history is not currently available in our iOS app.