Chrome For iOS Experiment is accommodated with Face ID lock for Incognito tabs. Incognito mode, which also happens to go by a much safer browsing or Private Browsing names, has become a common method nowadays for less technical users to protect themselves from online spying. The basic idea is that the browser would not keep a log of where users go and also block cookies that would allow the websites to track the users as well.
Chrome for iOS Experiment
As one of the lawsuits against Google indicates, that remains to be a foolproof system and different browser that makers might interpret the restrictions differently. All privacy also goes out the windows when unauthorized persons possess physical access, which is one of the reasons why Google is bringing Face ID security to Chrome on iOS.
Incognito browsing modes only protect users from snooping by a digital or an online party, not by the ones that you can see. Unfortunately, not a lot of people protect their phones that come with locks or, even if they do, use a timeout that offers people that are unauthorized the opportunity to actually take a peek at what you are browsing. Even incognito mode cannot protect people that are in those scenarios, at least not with some extra security details.
Chrome Incognito Lock Tabs
Earlier this year, there were hints that Google that looks exactly like bringing something like that to iOS users. it seems as if Google is prepared to roll it out to all their users and has added a chrome experiment that would allow users to lock incognito tabs when chrome is closed.
In other to access all those tabs, users would have to make use of Face ID, Making this an iOS-specific security measure. It would most likely take on different forms on other platforms or Apple devices that do not possess Face ID support. At the moment, however, it looks as if it would available anywhere aside from Chrome for iOS anyway.
Enable Chrome Experiment Feature
As one of Chrome’s experiments, users would have to go via the rather arcane chrome://flags interface to enable it. of course, they could not just wait for Google to make it an official feature, that is if it even becomes official.
