You can sign into Chrome with your Google Account in different ways, like when you use Chrome for the first time or anytime later through Chrome settings. On your computer, you can also sign in to Chrome through a Google web service like Gmail. On your computer, Android and iOS device, once you sign in to Chrome, you are signed in to other Google web services too.
If you choose to sign in to Chrome, you can save and use bookmarks, passwords and other Chrome data in your Google Account. This allows you to use your Chrome data on all your devices where you sign in. If you don’t sign in, you can still save your bookmarks, passwords and more, but they are saved only to your device.
If you are signed in to Chrome and want to sync your tabs and Chrome history, you can turn this on in Chrome settings.
When “Web & App Activity” is enabled for your account, which includes the subsetting for Chrome, Chrome history saved to your Google Account may be used to help personalize your experience across Google products and services. This includes faster searches and helpful content recommendations. You can manage your activity in My Google Activity.
When you browse in Chrome Incognito mode, you can’t sign in to Chrome. You can still sign in to Google web services.
You can choose to encrypt certain data with your own passphrase, so Google cannot read this data. Information sent to Google is encrypted in transit. It's used and protected in accordance with the Google Privacy Policy.
You can manage your data from Chrome and control how it is used anytime.
- Learn how to sign out of Chrome.
- To change which Chrome data can be saved in your Google Account, learn how to customize what you save.
- To manage or clear Chrome data already saved in your Google Account, go to chrome.google.com/sync.