New Chrome on iOS Features: How to Separate Work and Personal Profiles and Boost Your Security
Let’s face it: our iPhones and iPads are central hubs for both our professional and personal lives. This often leads to a messy digital experience, with work bookmarks cluttering personal searches and saved passwords getting mixed up. The good news is, managing this digital divide just got much easier.
Recent updates to Chrome on iOS are rolling out powerful new features designed to enhance organization, productivity, and, most importantly, your mobile security. Here’s a breakdown of what’s new and how you can take advantage of it.
Finally, Separate Work and Personal Profiles in Chrome on iOS
One of the most requested features has arrived: the ability to create separate profiles within the Chrome app on your iPhone and iPad. This is a game-changer for anyone who uses the same device for their job and personal browsing.
By separating your digital life into distinct profiles, you can keep everything neatly organized. Each profile maintains its own separate set of data, including:
- Bookmarks
- History
- Passwords
- Settings
This means your work-related research won’t appear in your personal history, and your saved credentials for work platforms will remain separate from your personal accounts.
How to get started: Setting this up is simple. Just tap on your profile picture in Chrome and select the option to “Add another profile.” You can then sign in with your work or personal Google Account to create a dedicated space for each.
Strengthening Your Mobile Security with Enhanced Safe Browsing
Your security on the go is paramount. That’s why Chrome is extending its most powerful security feature, Enhanced Safe Browsing, to iOS devices.
While standard protection in Chrome checks URLs against a known list of unsafe sites, Enhanced Safe Browsing takes a much more proactive approach. It sends real-time data to Google Safe Browsing to check for emerging threats like sophisticated phishing schemes, malware, and dangerous websites that haven’t been blacklisted yet. This feature provides predictive and proactive protection against online dangers.
If you sign in to Chrome, this protection works across your devices, creating a more secure ecosystem for all your browsing activities.
Actionable Security Tip: To enable this, go to Chrome Settings > Safe Browsing and select “Enhanced protection.” We highly recommend turning this on for the highest level of security.
More Control and Convenience: Additional Chrome Updates
Beyond profiles and security, several other quality-of-life improvements make Chrome on iOS a more powerful tool.
Improved Google Password Manager: For users who rely on Google Password Manager, it can now be set as the primary Autofill provider on iOS. This allows you to securely and seamlessly fill passwords not just in Chrome, but across all apps on your iPhone or iPad.
Smarter, Faster Browsing: The Chrome address bar is now more intelligent. It uses on-device machine learning to predict what you might be searching for based on your browsing habits, making it faster to get to the content you need.
Translate on the Go: The built-in translation feature has been upgraded. It now uses on-device language identification to more accurately detect the language of a website and determine if it needs to be translated for you.
Your Action Plan: How to Get Started
These updates represent a significant step forward for productivity and security for Chrome users on iPhone and iPad. By separating your work and personal data, you can create a more organized and focused browsing experience. By enabling Enhanced Safe Browsing, you add a critical layer of real-time defense against online threats.
To access these features, simply ensure your Chrome app is updated to the latest version from the App Store. Once updated, take a few minutes to explore these new settings, set up a second profile if needed, and turn on Enhanced Safe Browsing. Your future, more organized and secure self will thank you.
Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/chrome-enterprise/chrome-brings-personal-and-work-separation-to-ios-users-and-more-enterprise-protections-to-mobile/
