If you store all your passwords in Chrome and use an iPhone, signing in to your different accounts will be easier. The latest version of the browser for iOS (version M104) will allow you to set Chrome as your autofill provider. It will also add new “enhanced safe browsing” and Chrome actions to the app for iPhones and iPads.
Many of these features are already available in the Android edition of Chrome, such as Password Manager, which uses the data you have chosen to store in your browser to sign in to your phone’s applications. Enhanced Safe Browsing, when enabled on your iPhone or iPad, will check if the websites you visit are dangerous. In addition, “Chrome alerts you if your username and password have been compromised in a third-party data breach” when you enter your credentials on a website. It will then ask you to change them everywhere.
Something not yet available on Android is the first page when you reopen Chrome after a while. According to the Google Blog post, “We’re making it easy for you to discover new content or start a new search in Chrome for iOS in no time.” This is supposed to make it “easier to browse content, start a new search, or easily return to the sites you visit most often,” while allowing you to locate your recent tabs. Google added that this “will also come to Android soon.”
Those who rely on Chrome’s built-in translation tools may find the updated language identification model useful. Google says this new version on your device will help you “accurately figure out the language of the page you’re visiting and whether it needs to be translated to match your preferences.”
In the meantime, Chrome Actions will make it easier to do things like clear your browsing data or open an incognito tab on iOS. You no longer have to go to the three-point menu to search for these options; you can only type a search term for the settings in the URL bar. “Delete history”, for example, will take you to the page to clear your browsing data. And if you search for information about this setting online, you’ll still see the suggested search results below the suggested action.
Finally, Google also modified the “three-point menu” so that the most important destinations, such as your history, passwords, and settings, can be scanned and highlighted. The company said that “your most used destinations will be available in the top of the menu “. and actions such as creating bookmarks or adding things to the reading list can be found above in the drop-down menu.
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