If you use anonymous tabs on Chrome is because you don't want anyone to know what was accessed there. This prevents the tabs from staying in your browsing history, but not from someone simply opening your phone and seeing them (if they are open). To give an extra layer of privacy to the system, Google is developing a feature that can block these pages on iOS using the Touch or Face ID.

Basically, the protected incognito tab will remain present in the app, but will be blurred until the user confirms their identity. The idea is to make browsing Chrome on iOS more secure using Touch or Face ID, allowing the user to open another app or even put the smartphone aside without closing the tab.

This isn't the first time something like this has appeared on a Google service, Google Drive has a system that allows you to protect access to files. with digital biometric authentication or facial recognition.

iOS Security

The new Chrome feature on iOS can also be useful if you want to let someone else use your iPhone, this way your browsing tabs will be protected with the Touch or Face ID while another user can use another tab normally.

The feature appears in the beta version of the iOS app. However, it is not available to everyone who has the test version of the browser. It is not yet known which iPhone models it will be available for, nor whether something similar is planned for Android.

It may seem strange that Google would release a feature for its browser on a competing operating system before making it available on its own OS, but this isn't the first time this has happened. Recently, Chrome has started testing a feature to save texts to read later on Android, something that was already available for smartphones Apple some time ago.

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