{"id":39924,"date":"2026-02-22T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=39924"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:09:32","slug":"microsoft-edge-primary-password-to-be-discontinued-in-summer-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/02\/22\/microsoft-edge-primary-password-to-be-discontinued-in-summer-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge: Primary password to be discontinued in summer 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Edge\" src=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Edge.jpg\" alt=\"Edge\" width=\"65\" height=\"67\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/23\/microsoft-edge-primaer-passwort-wird-im-sommer-2026-eingestellt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]Brief information for users of the Microsoft Edge browser who have used a so-called primary password. Microsoft has just declared this feature \"deprecated\" and will remove it by summer 2026.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This information can be found in the release summary of the announcement for <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/deployedge\/microsoft-edge-relnote-stable-channel#version-1450380070-february-20-2026-stable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">version 145.0.3800.70: February 20, 2026 (Stable)<\/a> dated February 20, 2026. It states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Custom primary password deprecation<\/strong>. Users will no longer be able to create a new custom primary password in Edge Settings\u00a0<code>edge:\/\/settings\/autofill\/passwords\/settings<\/code>. Users who already have a custom primary password configured will see a warning that the feature will not be available from June 4, 2026. On June 4, 2026, any users who are still using a custom primary password will be automatically migrated to device authentication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Brief information for users of the Microsoft Edge browser who have used a so-called primary password. Microsoft has just declared this feature \"deprecated\" and will remove it by summer 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[872,1547,22],"tags":[320,69],"class_list":["post-39924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browser","category-software","category-update","tag-edge","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39925,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39924\/revisions\/39925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}