Become your bookmarks, passwords and more on all of your devices

When you lot turn on sync, you'll see the same info on all of your devices:

  • Bookmarks
  • History and open tabs
  • Passwords
  • Payment info
  • Addresses, phone numbers and more
  • Settings and preferences

When y'all're signed in to Chrome with your Google Account but practice not take sync turned on, you can also access:

  • Payment info that you saved to Google Pay.
  • Passwords that you saved to your Google Account.

Choose what info is synced

When y'all plough on sync, all your profile information is saved to your Google Account. If you don't desire to sync everything, yous can change what info is saved.

  1. On a trusted estimator, open Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More Organise and then Settings.
  3. Click You and Googleand thenSync and Google services.
    • To discover out what you've synced, select Review your synced data.
  4. Under 'Sync', click Manage what yous sync.
  5. Turn off Sync everything.
  6. Turn off any information that you don't want synced to your business relationship.

Change the Google Business relationship where y'all salvage info

Use your Chrome history to personalise Google

By default, whatsoever Chrome history saved to your Google Account is as well added to Web and App Activity. Your activity may be used to personalise your experience on other Google products, such as Search or Ads. For example, y'all may see a news story recommended in your feed, based on your Chrome history.

You can e'er command your Web & App Activity in your Google Account. Learn more about seeing and decision-making Web and App Activity.

If you don't desire to personalise your Google products, you tin can still use Google'south cloud to store and sync your Chrome data without letting Google read any of your data. Learn more about keeping your info private.

Keep your info private

With a passphrase, yous can use Google's deject to shop and sync your Chrome information without letting Google read it. Your payment methods and addresses from Google Pay aren't encrypted by a passphrase.

Passphrases are optional. Your synced data is always protected past encryption when it's in transit.

If you're having trouble syncing with your passphrase, you may have to update Google Chrome to the latest version.

Create a passphrase

When you have a sync passphrase:

  • Y'all'll need your passphrase whenever you plow on sync somewhere new.
  • You'll demand to enter your new passphrase on your devices where you have already turned on sync.
  • Your feed won't show suggestions based on sites that you lot browse in Chrome.
  • Y'all can't view your saved passwords on passwords.google.com or use Smart Lock for Passwords.
  • All your history won't sync on all devices. Merely spider web addresses that you enter in Chrome's accost bar are synced.

To create a sync passphrase:

Step 1: Plough on sync

If you're already signed in to Chrome, plow on sync first to create a passphrase.

Step ii: Create a passphrase

  1. In Chrome, at the meridian correct, click More than Organise and then Settings.
  2. Click Y'all and Googleand thenSync.
  3. Click Encryption optionsand thenEncrypt synced data with your ain sync passphrase. This doesn't include payment methods and addresses from Google Pay.
  4. Enter and confirm a passphrase.
  5. Click Save

Reset your passphrase

When yous change your sync passphrase, all your data is deleted from Google'southward servers and all your synced computers and devices are signed out. This doesn't include payment methods and addresses from Google Pay.

Your bookmarks, history, passwords and other settings aren't deleted from Chrome on your device. When you plough sync on over again, your info will save beyond all your devices.

Step 1: Remove the sync passphrase

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. Go to the Google Dashboard.
  3. At the lesser, click Reset sync.
  4. Confirm by clicking OK.
  5. Turn sync on over again.

Sync will start again and yous'll no longer have a sync passphrase.

Pace 2: Make a new sync passphrase (optional)

  1. In Chrome, at the top right, click More than Organise and then Settings.
  2. Click You and Googleand thenSync.
  3. Click Encryption optionsand thenEncrypt synced data with your own sync passphrase. This doesn't include payment methods and addresses from Google Pay.
  4. Enter and confirm a passphrase.
  5. Click Salve

When you've finished, plow sync on over again on all your other devices. Larn how to turn sync on in Chrome.

See your Chrome info on all your devices

After you've turned on sync, you can see information that yous've saved on other devices. When yous're signed in to Chrome, yous can too access your passwords saved to your Google Account and payment info from Google Pay.

See and manage your bookmarks

Encounter sites that y'all've visited before

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More Organise.
  3. Click History and then History.

If you utilise a sync passphrase, yous'll only come across sites that you've visited on other devices if you've typed their web addresses into the search bar.

Run into tabs open up on other devices

See your saved passwords

  1. On your reckoner, open Chrome.
  2. Go to passwords.google.com.
  3. Sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  4. Nether 'Saved passwords', you'll see all your passwords.

By syncing saved passwords to Chrome, you'll also run into them available when you sign in to an Android app. Detect out more than virtually syncing passwords.

Meet your saved payment methods and addresses

Encounter your extensions

Changes to your settings will update on all your devices. New themes and apps will be added to all your computers.

Fix problems with sync

If yous're on an older version of Chrome, it sometimes has difficulty syncing. Update to the newest version of Chrome.

You can also turn sync off or on in Chrome.

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