Get your bookmarks, passwords & more on all your devices

When you sign in to Chrome, you can save info in your Google Account. You can then use your info on all your devices where you’re signed in with the same account.

When you turn on sync, you’ll find the same info on all your devices:

  • Bookmarks
  • History and open tabs
  • Passwords
  • Payment info
  • Addresses, phone numbers and more
  • Settings and preferences
When you're signed in to Chrome with your Google Account but don't have sync turned on, you can also access:
  • Payment info you saved to Google Pay.
  • Passwords you saved to your Google Account.
  • Addresses you saved to your Google Account.

Choose what info is synced

When you turn on sync, all your profile information is saved to your Google Account. If you don't want to sync everything, you can change what info is saved.

  1. On a trusted Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app Chrome.
  2. To the right of the address bar, tap More Organize and then Settings.
  3. Tap Sync.
  4. Turn off Sync everything.
  5. Choose what to sync.
Change the Google Account where you save info

When you switch your sync account, all your bookmarks, history, passwords, and other synced info will be copied to your new account.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app Chrome.
  2. To the right of the address bar, tap More Organize and then Settings.
  3. Tap your name.
  4. Tap Sign out and turn off sync.
  5. Tap Continue.
  6. In "Settings," tap Turn on sync.
  7. Choose the account you want to sync to or add a new account.
  8. Choose Combine my data.

If you want to keep your data separate, tap Keep my data separate. The data on the device is removed and replaced with the other account's data.

Use your Chrome history to personalize Google

By default, Chrome history that's saved to your Google Account is also added to Web & App Activity. Your activity may be used to personalize your experience on other Google products, like Search or ads. For example, you may find a news story recommended in your feed based on your Chrome history.

You can always control your Web & App Activity in your Google Account. Learn how to find and control your Web & App Activity.

If you don't want to personalize your Google products, you can still use Google's cloud to store your Chrome data without letting Google read your Chrome history. Learn more about keeping your info private.

Keep your info private with a passphrase

With a passphrase, you can use Google's cloud to store and sync your Chrome data without letting Google read it. Your payment methods and addresses from Google Pay aren't encrypted by a passphrase.

Passphrases are optional. Your synced data is always protected by encryption when it's in transit.

Create your own passphrase

When you have a passphrase:

  • You'll need your passphrase whenever you turn on sync somewhere new.
  • You'll need to enter your new passphrase on your devices where you have already turned on sync.
  • Your feed won’t show suggestions based on sites you browse in Chrome.
  • You can't check your saved passwords on passwords.google.com or use Smart Lock for Passwords.
  • All your history won't sync on all devices. Only web addresses that you type in Chrome's address bar will sync.

Create a passphrase

  1. On a trusted Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app Chrome.
  2. Turn on sync with your Google Account.
  3. To the right of the address bar, tap More Organize and then Settings.
  4. Tap Sync.
  5. At the bottom, tap Encryption.
  6. Choose Encrypt synced data with your own sync passphrase.
  7. Enter and confirm a passphrase.
  8. Tap Save.
Reset your passphrase

When you change your sync passphrase, all your data is deleted from Google’s servers and all your synced computers and devices are signed out. Your payment methods and addresses from Google Pay aren't encrypted by a passphrase.

Your bookmarks, history, passwords, and other settings aren't deleted from Chrome on your device. When you sign back in to Chrome on that device, all your info will start syncing again.

Step 1: Remove the sync passphrase

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app Chrome.
  2. Go to the Google Dashboard.
  3. At the bottom, tap Clear data and then Clear.
  4. To the right of the address bar, tap More Organize and then Settings.
  5. Tap Sign in to Chrome.

Sync will start again, and you'll no longer have a sync passphrase.

Step 2: Make a new sync passphrase (optional)

  1. Tap Sync.
  2. At the bottom, tap Encryption.
  3. Choose Encrypt synced data with your own sync passphrase.
  4. Enter and confirm a passphrase.
  5. Tap Save.

Find your Chrome info on all your devices

You can find information you’ve saved on other devices after you’ve turned on sync. When you’re signed in to Chrome, you can also access your:

  • Passwords and addresses saved to your Google Account
  • Payment info from Google Pay
Find and manage your bookmarks
  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app Chrome.
  2. At the top right, tap More Organize and then Bookmarks.
  3. To change folders, tap Back Back. Tap the folder with the bookmark you want.
Find sites you've visited before
  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app Chrome.
  2. At the top right, tap More Organize and then History.

If you use a sync passphrase, you'll only find sites you visited on other devices if you typed their web addresses into the search bar.

Find tabs open on other devices
  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app Chrome.
  2. To the right of the address bar, tap More Organize and then Recent tabs.
Find your saved passwords
  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app Chrome.
  2. Go to passwords.google.com.
  3. Sign in to your Google Account.
  4. Under "Password Manager," find all your passwords.

When you sync saved passwords to Chrome, you can find them available when you sign in to an Android app. Learn more about how to sync passwords.

Find your saved addresses & credit cards
  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app Chrome.
  2. To the right of the address bar, tap More Organize and then Settings.
  3. Tap Autofill and payments.

Learn more about filling out forms automatically.

Changes to your settings will update on all your devices.

Fix problems with sync

If you're on an older version of Chrome, it sometimes has difficulty syncing. Update to the newest version of Chrome.

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