Chrome Testing New Sign-in Options for Google services such as Gmail, YouTube

Don’t want to sign in to Chrome when using Gmail or YouTube automatically? Google is testing new options to give you more control over your “Chrome sign-in” experience and keep your Chrome browsing separate from other Google services.

By default, Google Chrome has “Allow Chrome sign-in” enabled. This means that when you sign in to YouTube or other Google services while using Chrome, you’ll also be automatically signed in to Chrome itself. This allows Chrome to save and sync your bookmarks, history, and passwords from your Google Account across all your devices.

However, if you prefer to keep your Chrome browsing separate from your Google Account activity on other services, your data will be stored only on the current device and won’t be available on other devices.

Chrome may get new Sign-in options for Google services

When “Allow Chrome sign-in” is enabled, Google is exploring three new options for how Chrome handles sign-ins to other Google services:

• Sign in: Automatically sign into Chrome with the same account when you sign into Google services like Gmail or YouTube.
• Don’t sign in: Keep Chrome and Google services separate, requiring manual sign-in for each.
• Ask me every time: Choose each time whether to sign into Chrome when accessing Google services.

These new sign-in options provide greater control in managing your Chrome sign-in experience and how it interacts with your Google Account activity.

Sign in to Chrome when you sign in to other Google services

When signing into Google services like Gmail or Youtube with [email protected], you can automatically sign in to Chrome with the same account

We observed new sign-in options within the Chrome Developer version. These options appear to give users more control over how Chrome handles sign-ins when interacting with other Google services. This suggests Google may be conducting an experiment or A/B testing with these features.

We have reached out to Google for more information and will update this article with their official statement. This will help clarify whether these new sign-in options could be made available to all Chrome users in a future release.

If you’re already comfortable with the current Chrome sign-in experience with Google services, you can continue using it as is. Alternatively, you can wait for Chrome to roll out these new options more broadly in a future release.

All in all, the new sign-in options are designed to give users control over their browsing and Google account activity, although the feature is still being tested.

Apart from the change in the Chrome sign-in experience, Google is testing new feature to run safety checks right away when you start Chrome. Additionally, text in scanned PDFs will be editable and searchable in upcoming Chrome.