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PasswordRevealEnabled

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Enable Password reveal button

Supported versions

  • On Windows and macOS since 87 or later

Description

Lets you configure the default display of the browser password reveal button for password input fields on websites.

If you enable or don't configure this policy, the browser user setting defaults to displaying the password reveal button.

If you disable this policy, the browser user setting won't display the password reveal button.

For accessibility, users can change the browser setting from the default policy.

This policy only affects the browser password reveal button, it doesn't affect websites' custom reveal buttons.

Supported features

  • Can be mandatory: No
  • Can be recommended: Yes
  • Dynamic Policy Refresh: Yes
  • Per Profile: Yes
  • Applies to a profile that is signed in with a Microsoft account: No

Data type

  • Boolean

Windows information and settings

Group Policy (ADMX) info

  • GP unique name: PasswordRevealEnabled
  • GP name: Enable Password reveal button
  • GP path (Mandatory): N/A
  • GP path (Recommended): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge - Default Settings (users can override)/Password manager and protection
  • GP ADMX file name: MSEdge.admx

Example value

Enabled

Registry settings

  • Path (Mandatory): N/A
  • Path (Recommended): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\Recommended
  • Value name: PasswordRevealEnabled
  • Value type: REG_DWORD

Example registry value

0x00000001

Mac information and settings

  • Preference Key name: PasswordRevealEnabled
  • Example value:
<true/>

See also