Protect: Sync passwords

• Your saved passwords will be used for autofill in login forms on all your devices.
• If your computer breaks, you can restore passwords from the server.

By default, passwords are synced automatically when enabling syncing.

Password aren't synced if you disable syncing completely. To disable only password and card syncing:

1. Click   → Settings → Sync settings.
2. Deselect the Passwords and cards option.

If you change your master password on one of the synced devices, after synchronization, the password will change on other devices as well. If you change the master password on a device that is not synced, or create different master passwords on devices before they are synced, there will be a conflict. For example, you had entered one master password on your smartphone and another on your computer, and then enabled syncing. In this case, Yandex Browser doesn't know which master password it should use to encrypt the combined vault.

If there is a synchronization conflict, the settings icon looks like  when you enter your master password for the first time. To resolve the conflict:

• There is a conflict between two vaults
• There is a conflict between three or more vaults

1. Click   → Passwords and cards.
2. What you do next depends on whether you remember the master password for your other device:

   You remember your master password for your other device

   1. Click Merge with password vault on this computer.
   2. Enter the master password for your other device.

   The browser will re-encrypt your passwords on another device using the master password for the current computer. The master password for your other device will become invalid. Re-encrypted passwords will be moved to the merged vault.

   You don't remember your master password for your other device

   Passwords for this device will have to be deleted. To do this, click Delete. Passwords encrypted with the master password that you have forgotten will be deleted. Other passwords will be encrypted with the master password for the current computer. The forgotten master password will become invalid.

   You can also choose not to resolve conflicts. In this case, the passwords will not be synced (the history, bookmarks and other data will be synced as before).

   Note. If you created a backup encryption key on another device, try resetting the master password on it. Enter the master password for the computer you're using as your new master password.

If there is a conflict between three or more devices:

1. Click   → Passwords and cards.
2. What you do next depends on whether you remember the master password for your other devices:

   You remember your master password on other devices

   1. Mark the vaults that you want to join with your current one.
   2. Click Merge with password vault on this computer.
   3. Enter the password from each conflicting device one at a time.

   After that, Yandex Browser will re-encrypt passwords from other devices using the master password for the current computer. Master passwords for other devices will become invalid. Passwords from the current computer will be moved to the merged vault.

   You don't remember your master password for other devices

   Passwords for such devices will have to be deleted.

   1. Select the vaults for which you don't remember the master password.
   2. Click Delete.
   3. For other devices, click Merge with password vault on this computer.
   4. Enter the password from each conflicting device one by one.

   Passwords encrypted with the forgotten master passwords will be deleted. Passwords from other devices will be re-encrypted using the master password for the current computer. Master passwords for other devices will become invalid. Re-encrypted passwords will be moved to the merged vault.

   You can also choose not to resolve conflicts. In this case, the passwords will not be synced (the history, bookmarks and other data will be synced as before).

   Note. If you created a backup encryption key on another device, try resetting the master password on it. Enter the master password for the computer you're using as your new master password.

Passwords are saved in encrypted form on Yandex's server. The password to your Yandex ID is used as the encryption key. If you change this password, Yandex Browser needs to decrypt the passwords on the server and then re-encrypt them using a new key. If an error occurs during this process, you will see an error message. To fix it:

• If you remember your old Yandex ID password:

  1. Click   → Settings → Sync settings.
  2. Enter your old password in the sync form.
• If you don't remember your old Yandex ID password or didn't change it, the encrypted passwords will be lost. However, you can restore the remaining sync data:

  1. Make sure that Yandex Browser has all bookmarks, extensions, and settings that you want to save.
  2. Click   → Settings → Sync settings.
  3. Click Delete synchronized data.
  4. In the Would you like to delete this information? window, confirm the deletion of all account data from the synchronization server. To do this, click Yes, delete.
  5. Enable syncing. The data will be sent from Yandex Browser to the server.

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