Adjust website content settings
You can choose how Chrome handles things like cookies, images, and plug-ins, by adjusting your content settings. These settings control what content websites can show you and what information they can use as you browse.
- Open the Chrome app
.
- Tap More
Settings.
- Tap Site settings.
- Choose the setting you want to update:
- All sites. Review the sites that you've given permission to use local storage and geolocation data.
- Cookies. Websites can store small files on your device to save your preferences on websites or keep you signed in. Uncheck to prevent webpages from storing cookies on your mobile device.
- Location. Google Chrome alerts you by default whenever a site wants to use your location information. Learn more about location sharing.
- Camera. Sites can ask to access your camera and microphone. Learn more about camera and microphone access.
- Microphone. Sites can ask to access your camera and microphone. Learn more about camera and microphone access.
- JavaScript. JavaScript helps make websites interactive. Sites might work properly only if they can run JavaScript on your mobile device.
- Pop-ups. Prevent websites from showing additional windows automatically.
- Fullscreen. Websites can ask to open in fullscreen mode. You can choose how Chrome handles this type of request.
- Notifications. Some websites, such as Google Calendar, can show notifications on your mobile device. Google Chrome alerts you by default whenever a site wants permission to automatically show notifications. Learn more about notifications.
- Media. Manage how your phone handles some types of content:
- Protected content. Some sites need information about your device before they can show you copyrighted content, like music or movies. You can allow or block websites from seeing your device information. Learn more about protected content.
- Autoplay. When you visit a website that contains a video, you can choose if the muted video will start playing automatically. If you use Data Saver, Autoplay is off by default.
- Background sync. If your device goes offline during a task (like a chat message or photo upload), some sites can finish the task after the device is back online. The sync will happen in the background, even if you leave the website.
- Language. Translate pages written in other languages.
- Storage. See how much local device storage has been used by a site.
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