Google has taught the Google Assistant a fun new trick: it can now change your website passwords for you.

We’ll nonetheless must see how this function works in the actual world, however Google’s demo says you’ll be capable to faucet a single button to have Google register a brand new password with no matter website you’re on.

Google is combining a couple of puzzle items to make this occur. Google Password Manager has lengthy been in a position to retailer your passwords because of integration into Chrome and Android. It has additionally been in a position to generate safe passwords, making it straightforward to register a brand new account. Google scans your credentials towards a giant record of compromised usernames and passwords each time you log in, and if it detects unhealthy credentials, the “Check Password” display will pop up. In the previous, this display has left the subsequent steps as much as you, however a “change password” button from the Google Assistant will now seem on supported websites.

In 2019, the Google Assistant realized the best way to navigate webpages through a function known as “Duplex on the web.” A progress card slides up from the underside of the display, and Duplex on the internet scrolls by means of webpages, faucets on buttons, and pastes in kind knowledge. Previously, you might use the function to purchase film tickets, and now it can change your password and save the brand new, auto-generated password within the Google Password Manager. That’s all assuming nothing goes unsuitable.

The huge catch right here is that the automated password altering will solely work on “supported websites,” so if the website has a very unusual format, the function will not work. Duplex on the internet does all of the navigating proper in entrance of you, so you’ll be capable to watch the method and cease it if something goes unsuitable. Google says that “automated password adjustments are rolling out steadily in Chrome on Android, to customers who sync their passwords.” Support for new web sites might be added as time goes on, and the function might be out first within the US and can come to “extra international locations within the coming months.”