Keep your Privacy while others use your Chrome browser

What is Guest browsing?


You can let friends and family browse the Internet on your computer and still keep your account information private by using Guest mode in Chrome.

Differences between Guest mode and incognito mode


Both modes do not leave any browsing history or cookies on the computer but:

  • Guest mode: guest user can’t see or modify your users settings, bookmarks or history.
  • Incognito mode: user can see your existing history, bookmarks, passwords, Autofill data, and other Chrome settings.

Enable Guest mode


  1. Go to Settings

    access chrome settings
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  2. On left menu click Settings

  3. Make sure Enable Guest browsing is checked

    enabling guest browsing in chrome settings
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Entering Guest mode


  1. Click person icon which is located on the top bar of the browser

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    or
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  2. In sign in window click Switch person

    chrome sign in form
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  3. In person picker click Browser as guest

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  4. You are done. Again in this mode guest user can’t see or modify your users settings, bookmarks or history.

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