For a more private and secure browsing experience, you can use Chrome’s safety features, like Safety Check and Safe Browsing.
Run a Safety Check on an Android device
Chrome runs Safety Check automatically to help you find and fix privacy and security problems.You can review your Chrome's privacy and security with Safety Check. Safety Check searches for:
- Compromised, reused, or weak passwords: To ensure your online security, Safety Check can warn you if a username or password stored in the Google Password Manager was involved in a data breach. Learn more about how Chrome protects your passwords.
- Safe Browsing status: To ensure you’re protected against malware, phishing, and other risks, Safety Check can occasionally remind you to review your Safe Browsing settings. Learn more about Safe Browsing protection in Chrome.
- Available Chrome updates: To ensure that you’re protected by the latest security updates, Safety Check can occasionally remind you to update Chrome.
- Potentially unwanted notifications: From time to time, Chrome will remind you to review your notification permission grants.
- Unused site permissions: To protect your data, Chrome removes permissions from sites you haven't used recently.
- Abusive notifications: Notification permissions are removed by Chrome from sites that Google Safe Browsing finds to be deceiving users into granting the permission.
- On your Android device, open Chrome
.
- At the top right, tap More
Settings.
- Tap Safety Check.
- If Chrome finds any issues:
- Tap the item with the issue.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
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Settings.Tip: When Safety Check takes action, Chrome will notify you if there are issues that need your attention. These messages will show up on your new tab page. You can select the item with the issue and follow the on-screen instructions.