iPhone Users Can Now Easily Swap Between Personal and Work Accounts in Chrome

[MacRumors]

Google today updated its Chrome app for the iPhone and the iPad to add easier account switching for Chrome Enterprise. The functionality is designed for iOS users who need to swap between personal and managed work accounts.

When a Chrome user switches from a personal account to a managed work account using the added functionality, Chrome ensures that data for managed accounts stays separate. Work account browsing and personal account browsing remain distinct, with work-related tabs, history, passwords and other local data associated only with the managed account, and personal data limited to the personal account.

Google says that the improved account switching experience is designed to enable businesses to permit employees to use the devices of their choice in BYOD situations. The functionality is not available for switching between two standard Google accounts in Chrome on iOS.

When a user signs in to or swaps to a managed account, they will be informed about the separation for managed account browsing, and will be notified that they are using a managed experience with an on-screen confirmation.

Google is also extending Chrome Enterprise reporting capabilities to iOS devices, so organizations can send critical data related security events to the security investigation tool in the Google Admin console or Chrome logs. URL filtering is coming to iOS devices as well, so businesses can restrict employees from accessing unapproved or unsanctioned websites.


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[H3boy]

Functionality the Edge app has had for a loooong time.

 

[now i see it]

This might be useful for the 9 people who use Chrome on their iPhone

 

[deadspider187]

Doesn't Safari on IOS already do this with profiles?

 

[Dr McKay]

Functionality the Edge app has had for a loooong time.

I used to love Edge until one day, they changed every single one of my saved passwords to long strings of code which made them all completely unusable.

Had to switch to a dedicated password manager and being the petty person I am, switched browser and vowed never to use Edge again.

 

[SeaFox]

Doesn't Safari on IOS already do this with profiles?

But Safari would be syncing iCloud profiles wouldn't it? I thought the reason to use Chrome or Firefox on iOS was to gain syncing to Google or Mozilla accounts, respectively.

 

[applefan8254]

Nice. Can we get multiple users for iOS too? Thank you

 

[kirky29]

I used to love Edge until one day, they changed every single one of my saved passwords to long strings of code which made them all completely unusable.

Had to switch to a dedicated password manager and being the petty person I am, switched browser and vowed never to use Edge again.

Weird, I can't imagine you being petty...

 

[Jumpthesnark]

Doesn't Safari on IOS already do this with profiles?

But if your workplace uses Google Enterprise, so you have a work Google address and a personal Google address, this would make it easier to switch between the two on your iOS device.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Doesn't Safari on IOS already do this with profiles?

Sure does, but I'm not allowed to use Safari on my work iPhone.

I can use Chrome or Edge. Currently use Edge.

 

[deadspider187]

But if your workplace uses Google Enterprise, so you have a work Google address and a personal Google address, this would make it easier to switch between the two on your iOS device.

I currently use my personal Google account in a "Google Services" profile, which is not my default, so Google should in theory (I know, I know...) shouldn't be able to track my personal browsing history day-to-day unless I need to check that profile to check my email, use Youtube, etc. I use a "Work" profile for my work, which is all Google-based (I assume that's Enterprise). I just switch profiles when needed. This is all on MacOS however. I just checked Gmail on my phone and the web version looks like garbage, so I probably wouldn't use that; I have a work phone with Gmail installed for that. In MacOS, I can just open two Safari windows, one personal, one work, never the two shall meet.

Sure does, but I'm not allowed to use Safari on my work iPhone.

I can use Chrome or Edge. Currently use Edge.

I'm not sure why they would restrict that, but under your circumstances that's understandable. It doesn't sound like a useless feature, I'm just probably not the target audience for this, as I have de-googled just about all of my devices, apart from the "Google Services" profile and "Work" profiles in Safari. I also have my work Google account connected on my personal phone just so I can see my personal and work events on the same calendar, which I dislike, but it is what it is.

I would like to use Firefox all-around, but I'm not a fan of their current "containers" implementation.

 

[Black_Mage]

I don't care. I don't trust Google. The only Google product I use is YouTube. I use Firefox as my daily driver.

 

[MakaniKai]

I can't get it to show up with my work Google account, but I'm also not sure if I have the update yet or not. The app store shows no updates, and the last one was ~6 days ago. It could also be that my work account is not "managed." Hmm...

I wish they'd let us do this with any Google account, like how on desktop you can make various profiles. Clearly they can do it, if they can do this. They just choose not to.