Google Chrome browser has many useful features, although some may leave something to be desired from a privacy point of view.
In this article I am talking, in particular, of how the first tab is structured in Chrome for Android and iPhone, with the suggestions of articles that we might be interested in reading, immediately below the quick selection of the most visited sites and recently added favorites.
These tips are obviously derived from the browser history, so if someone picks up the phone and opens Chrome, they can quickly know what our interests are, what our searches have been and what sites we have stored in our favorites.
Who does not want to see this information in the first tab of Google Chrome on the smartphone, for privacy or because not interested, can change the new Chrome tab on Android and iPhone, and disable the various sections of the tips and favorites added .
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To customize the tab of the first page in Chrome on iPhone and iPad you can touch the button of the Other options (the three points at the top right) and enter the Settings from the menu.
From the Privacy section, look for the option that disables the suggestions to make them disappear.
At the moment, this option is absent in the Settings menu > Chrome Privacy on Android.
To customize the initial tab of Chrome on Android, remove the various sections that show personal content in the new tab, you have to act differently for each section.
- Removal of suggestions
To make the list of suggested articles disappear, a new tab must be opened at the address
chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-remote-suggestions
Move the switch from Default to Disabled .
- Remove list of recent downloads and offline pages
The new tab page in Chrome also shows the latest file downloads
To make them disappear, open the address card:
chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-asset-download-suggestions
And disable the option.
To remove the pages saved for offline reading without internet connection, deactivate the option found by typing the following URL in the address bar:
chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-offline-page-download-suggestions .
- Removing recently added favorites .
To prevent favorite site names from appearing in the new tab, then disable the option found in:
chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-bookmark-suggestions
At this point the page of the new tab should be clean, with only the quick selection of the most visited sites, which can be removed from the menu that appears by tapping on the icon and holding down.
On the new tab for Chrome for Android you can still make other changes :
- You can view the tabs open in other devices
Since Chrome synchronizes the open tabs on the PCs and mobiles where the same Google account is used, so you can resume work on each device.
These tabs can be viewed from the options menu, or even on the first tab if these two options are activated:
chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-remote-suggestions
chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-foreign-sessions-suggestions
- You can also hide the wording of the Google logo from the first page of Chrome on Android so as to make all the various suggestions rise (if they are left active) and make them more visible.
The option to be modified is as follows:
chrome: // flags / # ntp-condensed-layout
READ ALSO: How to close all the tabs in Chrome on Android (if they are many open)
In this article I am talking, in particular, of how the first tab is structured in Chrome for Android and iPhone, with the suggestions of articles that we might be interested in reading, immediately below the quick selection of the most visited sites and recently added favorites.
These tips are obviously derived from the browser history, so if someone picks up the phone and opens Chrome, they can quickly know what our interests are, what our searches have been and what sites we have stored in our favorites.
Who does not want to see this information in the first tab of Google Chrome on the smartphone, for privacy or because not interested, can change the new Chrome tab on Android and iPhone, and disable the various sections of the tips and favorites added .
READ ALSO: Improve Chrome on Android by changing these 10 Settings
To customize the tab of the first page in Chrome on iPhone and iPad you can touch the button of the Other options (the three points at the top right) and enter the Settings from the menu.
From the Privacy section, look for the option that disables the suggestions to make them disappear.
At the moment, this option is absent in the Settings menu > Chrome Privacy on Android.
To customize the initial tab of Chrome on Android, remove the various sections that show personal content in the new tab, you have to act differently for each section.
- Removal of suggestions
To make the list of suggested articles disappear, a new tab must be opened at the address
chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-remote-suggestions
Move the switch from Default to Disabled .
- Remove list of recent downloads and offline pages
The new tab page in Chrome also shows the latest file downloads
To make them disappear, open the address card:
chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-asset-download-suggestions
And disable the option.
To remove the pages saved for offline reading without internet connection, deactivate the option found by typing the following URL in the address bar:
chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-offline-page-download-suggestions .
- Removing recently added favorites .
To prevent favorite site names from appearing in the new tab, then disable the option found in:
chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-bookmark-suggestions
At this point the page of the new tab should be clean, with only the quick selection of the most visited sites, which can be removed from the menu that appears by tapping on the icon and holding down.
On the new tab for Chrome for Android you can still make other changes :
- You can view the tabs open in other devices
Since Chrome synchronizes the open tabs on the PCs and mobiles where the same Google account is used, so you can resume work on each device.
These tabs can be viewed from the options menu, or even on the first tab if these two options are activated:
chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-remote-suggestions
chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-foreign-sessions-suggestions
- You can also hide the wording of the Google logo from the first page of Chrome on Android so as to make all the various suggestions rise (if they are left active) and make them more visible.
The option to be modified is as follows:
chrome: // flags / # ntp-condensed-layout
READ ALSO: How to close all the tabs in Chrome on Android (if they are many open)
