To change email address in Chrome Autofill, you need to know that Chrome stores emails in two separate places: saved contact entries under "Addresses and more" and individual suggestions that appear directly in form fields. Updating both ensures forms fill with your current email and old addresses stop appearing, which keeps your browsing data accurate and prevents you from sending forms to an outdated inbox.
Open Chrome Settings
Launch Chrome on your desktop and click the three-dot menu in the top-right corner of the window. From the dropdown, select Settings to open the configuration page. Alternatively, type chrome://settings/ directly into the address bar and press Enter to skip the menu entirely.
Access Autofill settings
In the left sidebar of the Settings page, navigate to Autofill and passwords. Click on Addresses and more, where Chrome stores full contact entries that include email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses. This section is the primary place to manage saved contact data that autofills into web forms.
Edit your saved email address
Once inside Addresses and more, you'll see a list of saved entries. Locate the entry containing the old email address you want to change. Click the three dots next to that entry, then select Edit from the menu. Update the email field with your current address, and if needed, correct any other outdated contact details in the same entry. When finished, click Save to store the change.
Remove unwanted email suggestions from form fields
Emails that appear as suggestions when you click into a form field are often separate from saved address entries. To delete one of these suggestions, click into the email field where the unwanted address appears. Use the down arrow key to highlight the specific suggestion you want to remove, then press Shift+Delete on Windows, Linux, or Chromebook, or Shift+Fn+Delete on a Mac. The highlighted suggestion will be permanently removed from Chrome's autofill suggestions for that field type.
How emails get saved in Chrome Autofill
Chrome prompts users to save address information including email when they submit web forms, which is why old addresses may still appear even after you've updated a saved contact entry. Each time you submit a form with a new email address, Chrome may ask if you want to save it, and accepting those prompts adds new suggestions to form fields. Understanding this behavior helps you decide whether to edit a saved entry or remove a standalone suggestion, depending on where the outdated email actually lives in your autofill data.
