The Safety Check feature is being released also for the Android version of Chrome: here’s what it’s for and how it works
After releasing it for the desktop version of Chrome, now Google is going to bring the “Safety Check” to Android as well. The “all-in-one” check to know if our Chrome installation is safe, then, is coming to mobile in order to increase the safety of browsing users.
For now there is no release date of the Safety Check on the stable version of Chrome, but the tool is coming on “Canary”, that is the version of Chrome dedicated to beta testers. This version is not the one that users normally use, but can be downloaded and installed from the website. The Safety Check on Android is a tool pretty much the same as the one already seen on the desktop browser, except for the check of extensions (which is not there because extensions are not officially supported on Chrome for Android). So here’s what Safety Check is exactly and how it will be implemented on Chrome for Android.
Safety Check: what it is and how it works
Google Chrome’s Safety Check is basically a tool that collects in one place all the settings and security controls of the browser. Through this tool you can know if Chrome is updated to the latest version, check if you have activated the “Safe Browsing”, ie the mode that protects browsing from insecure sites, check if our passwords have been violated in some data breach and check if the browser has been installed extensions then withdrawn because dangerous or insecure. All this can be done simply by going to Chrome’s settings where, in the left column, there is the “Safety Check” button that serves to launch the tool.
Safety Check on Android: what changes
In fact, everything that Safety Check does today on Chrome for desktop will also do on Android smartphones. The only exception, already mentioned, is the extensions check because Google officially doesn’t allow you to install extensions on Chrome for Android. If we have installed plugins through some trick, therefore, they will not be checked. To activate the Safety Check on Chrome for Android we’ll first have to download the Canary version of Chrome and then go to chrome://flags, search and activate “Safety Check” and finally go to the app settings and launch the safety check.