For administrators who manage user-level Chrome browser policies from the Google Admin console.
As an admin, you have to turn on Chrome browser management in the Admin console for user-level policies to work on Android and iOS devices.
Before you begin
- Turn on Chrome management for signed-in users in the Admin console. By default, the setting is turned on only for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- To turn Chrome browser management on or off for select groups of users or Android and iOS devices, put their accounts in an organizational unit.
Turn on Chrome management for signed-in users
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Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.
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Go to Menu
Devices > Chrome > Settings. The User & browser settings page opens by default.
Requires having the Mobile Device Management administrator privilege.
If you signed up for Chrome Enterprise Core, go to Menu
Chrome browser > Settings.
- Go to and click Chrome management for signed-in users.
- Click Edit.
- Select Apply all user policies when users sign into Chrome, and provide a managed Chrome experience.
- Click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent organizational unit. Or, click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
Turn on Chrome on Android and iOS
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Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.
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Go to Menu
Requires having the Mobile Device Management administrator privilege.
If you signed up for Chrome Enterprise Core, go to Menu
- Go to and click Chrome on Android or Chrome on iOS.
- Select Apply supported user settings to Chrome on Android or Apply supported user settings to Chrome on iOS.
- Click Save.
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