How to Lock Chrome Incognito Tabs With Face ID on iPhone and iPad

Looking to keep your mobile browsing in Google Chrome private and secure?

Whatever you think of it, Chrome remains one of the most popular browsers on ‌iPhone‌ and ‌iPad‌, which is why Google continues to work on new features to differentiate it from Apple’s Safari. With this in mind, one of the more unique tools in its feature set is the ability to use ‌Face ID‌ and ‌Touch ID‌ with Incognito tabs.

With this feature enabled, you can browse the internet using Incognito tabs and exit the app without closing them, safe in the knowledge that the tabs won’t be visible until authenticated with either ‌Face ID‌ or ‌Touch ID‌, depending on your device. This way, if someone gets hold of your device, they won’t be able to just open Chrome to view your Incognito tabs.

Not only will no-one be able to view your tabs, thanks to Incognito mode, none of your browsing history, cookies and site data, or information entered in forms are saved on your device. This means that your activity doesn’t appear in your Chrome browser history, so no-one will see your activity either.

Note that Incognito tabs are opened separately from regular tabs in Chrome. If you’ve used Safari on ‌iPhone‌ or ‌iPad‌, it’s similar to the way Private Browsing works, except in Safari you don’t have the option to lock those tabs behind device authentication.

The following steps show you how to enable biometric authentication for Incognito tabs in Chrome.

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How to Enable End-to-End Encryption for iCloud Backups

With the release of iOS 16.3 and macOS 13.2, Apple is introducing Advanced Protection for iCloud, which uses end-to-end encryption to provide Apple’s highest level of cloud data security yet.

The new security feature ensures users will have the choice to further protect their important iCloud data, including iCloud Backup, Photos, Notes, and more.

Apple’s use of end-to-end encryption means the vast majority of your most sensitive iCloud data can only be decrypted on your trusted Apple devices where you’re signed in with your Apple ID account, ensuring that the data remains secure even in the case of a data breach in the cloud. In other words, no-one – not even Apple – can access your data except you.

iCloud already protects 14 sensitive data categories using end-to-end encryption by default, including passwords in iCloud Keychain and Health data. For users who enable Advanced Data Protection, the total number of data categories protected using end-to-end encryption rises to 23, including iCloud Backup, Notes, and Photos.

How to Enable Account Recovery on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Before turning on Advanced Data Protection, you’ll need to set up Account Recovery. This ensures you can recover your data if you forget your password.

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