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How to remove autofill email from 'choose an account' part of Profile page in Microsoft Edge?
I'm trying to setup a new Profile in Microsoft Edge, one without an email. Every time I click on the Profile button and bring up the Profile page, there is a little 'Choose an Account' section that ...
For Windows, I think this is somewhere in Credential Manager. On macOS, I was able to remove all auto-discovered entries in this drop down menu by removing all entries in the Mac's keychain that matched "Microsoft". I deleted them all, but I suspect by just deleting the, "Microsoft Edge Safe Storage" item, that would do the trick. Note that a side effect of doing this is that you're logged out of all websites and need to log into them again.
It seems that whenever you use Edge to logon to a Microsoft service of some kind, that ID is retained somehow in this database. That's where Edge is picking it up from. Blowing that away resolves the issue.
It seems that whenever you use Edge to logon to a Microsoft service of some kind, that ID is retained somehow in this database. That's where Edge is picking it up from. Blowing that away resolves the issue.