Edge Removed ‘Delete All Passwords’ – and Traps Your Passwords in Your Microsoft Account

Microsoft Edge used to let you wipe all your saved passwords in one click. There was a checkbox in the “clear browsing data” panel, right next to cookies and cache, that swept every saved login away. That checkbox is gone now, and so is every other bulk-delete path. Step by step, Edge took away each way to clear your passwords, while continuing to sync every new one you save into your Microsoft account. The result is data lock-in by design: your passwords accumulate, they move into your account, and the ways to delete them disappear.

The timeline of Edge taking away password deletion

It didn’t happen all at once. Microsoft removed the ability to delete your passwords in stages, and its own release notes document each one.

• Edge 141, October 2, 2025: Microsoft removed the Passwords and Autofill toggles from the “Clear browsing data on close” settings. Before this, you could tell Edge to automatically delete your saved passwords every time the browser closed. After this, the option to auto-delete passwords on exit was gone, and only manual deletion remained.
• Edge 146, March 13, 2026: Microsoft removed “Passwords” from the list of data types in the Clear Browsing Data panel entirely. This was the last bulk-delete control Edge had. The checkbox that used to delete all your saved passwords at once simply disappeared, with no replacement.

That second removal is the one that really locked the door. After Edge 146, the only way to remove a saved password is to open the password manager at edge://settings/autofill/passwords and delete entries one by one, by hand, forever. Microsoft’s own answer to “how do I erase all passwords in Edge?” has no bulk option, and its support forums are full of users repeating the same complaint: “The clear all option has been removed. I have too many to remove one by one per device.”

How you have to remove them now

Since the bulk-delete controls are gone, clearing your passwords means working around Edge. Here is how it actually gets done.

• One by one in the browser: Open edge://settings/autofill/passwords, hover each saved entry, and delete them individually. This is the only in-browser method Microsoft left, and it only removes each entry from the local password manager.
• Wipe the local store by hand: The bulk workaround is to close Edge completely, then delete the password database file: C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\<Profile>\Login Data. Deleting that file wipes every locally saved password at once. It’s crude, and Edge recreates an empty store next launch, but it is the closest thing to a bulk delete that still exists.
• Stop the cloud from bringing them back: None of the above touches the copies synced to your Microsoft account. To keep them from resyncing, go to Settings > Profiles > Sync and turn off Passwords, then reset sync data from Microsoft servers. Otherwise the deleted entries reappear on the next sync.

Notice what each step has in common: nothing Microsoft put in front of you. No one-click “delete all,” no supported batch control, no single setting that clears the whole account. Every path is a workaround, and even then you’re fighting the cloud copy that syncs right back down.

Meanwhile, your passwords keep flowing into your account

While Edge was quietly removing the delete buttons, it kept doing the thing that fills your vault in the first place. Every password you save in Edge is synced to your Microsoft account and shared across everything you sign into, and every new login just adds to the pile. The save-and-sync keeps working; only the deletion is being dismantled.

So the two halves move in opposite directions. Adding a password is a single click that lands a copy in your Microsoft account and on every synced device. Removing them is a chore that scales with however many you’ve saved, limited to one entry at a time, fighting a cloud copy that syncs right back down.

This is data lock-in

This isn’t just a clumsy product decision. It’s a moat. Every password Edge holds in your Microsoft account makes it harder to leave the ecosystem, because leaving means either abandoning that data or spending hours deleting it by hand. The more of your logins Microsoft stores, the more you depend on Edge, Edge Password Manager, and the autofill features that keep you signed in. Once your passwords are the thing that’s hard to delete, your loyalty is the thing that’s hard to walk away from.

It’s the same funnel as everything else in this series: the default that’s easy to set and hard to undo. The asymmetry is the product. Save is effortless, delete is a research project, and Microsoft knows that imbalance is exactly what turns a habit into lock-in.

The receipt

• The scam: Edge removed the “Passwords” checkbox from Clear Browsing Data (Edge 146, March 2026), killing the bulk-delete option, after already removing auto-delete on close (Edge 141, October 2025).
• The mechanism: Your passwords are synced into your Microsoft account and can only be deleted one by one from the password manager; local clearing just syncs the cloud copies back down.
• Why it’s still running: Your stored passwords are the moat that makes leaving the Microsoft ecosystem expensive, so the harder they are to delete, the more locked in you stay.
• The fix that’s missing: One clear, honest “delete all passwords stored with Microsoft” action that actually works, everywhere, the first time.

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