Google shared some tips for staying safe on Chrome for Data Privacy Day, tomorrow, January 28. It also revealed that Chrome for Android is getting a new feature that lets you lock incognito tabs when you leave the app.
With a new privacy setting, you can unlock these tabs with a screen lock, with biometric information, PIN or pattern.
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The function is quite simple. When Chrome is open and you want to use the incognito tabs after the phone is locked, a prompt appears on the screen to use your preferred screen unlock method and verify that you have access. The public tabs will remain publicly available.
The feature is extremely useful for devices that are used by more than one person and where one does not want the others to know what is being viewed. This is the closest thing Chrome for Android has to different profiles for different users.
Google said the feature is still rolling out, so some users may have to wait a while to get it.