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by TheJoaquinDad

I use Chrome on windows and Mac for work every day. Like most people, I cycle frequently between various tabs and windows, use my bookmark bar frequently (can’t do on this), use tab groups to sort multiple tabs (can’t do), and use Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets almost constantly (limited and honestly counterproductive).

The current iteration of Chrome seems like they designed it with only the iPhone in mind. By default it loads the mobile web pages, limits the ability to zoom in and out (especially in Google drive), and for Google’s own Gmail it forces you to use a mobile version that looks to be from 2008. It’s horrendous that Google’s flagship browser is quantifiable the worst iPadOS browser to use their own web apps and GSuite with.

This app could be improved so much if they integrated Sync profiles (like they have for Windows and Mac), proper zoom scaling for Google Drive, and a bookmarks bar. Those three changes would make Chrome on the iPad Pro a serious powerhouse. If I could do those things, this review would easily be 4-5 stars.

by The Actual People

I really wanted to like the Chrome app for iOS but it turned out to be counter productive. I use a lot of other Google apps over Apple (notable Gmail and Google Maps) and after a lot of prompting from those apps to use Chrome when pushing to Safari, I decided to give it a try. After a month of Chrome usage, the app options, gestures, buttons are counterintuitive and slow. For example, I understand some people like to close their browsing session after but I never do- sure, have a close all button but why is it displayed so prominently in the app start. I have pressed it accidentally so many times and closed out my plethora of tabs which is really annoying. There’s no way to recover them if you open a new tab. There’s no option for opening tabs in background, quick new tab from a current tab just to name a few others. Page loading is slowing and constantly reloads instead of saving page data. The iOS Chrome app needs a major refresh and update before I use it again. But right now it is counterintuitive, inefficient, and unproductive.

by Christofer Williams

It lets me sync my bookmarks with my laptop (on which I also use Chrome). That’s a nice feature. But it’s so mind-blowingly awful with privacy that I’ve deleted it from all mobile devices. iOS Chrome is completely lacking in every basic privacy control one would expect of any browser built after 2014.

This thing doesn’t just track and save everything you do; it presents a list of all recently-visited sites any time you open a new tab... and there’s no way to opt out of this or turn it off. You can’t even delete in bulk; you have to remove these recently-visited sites one by one unless you’re willing to clear your entire browser history.

The new tab also automatically loads a selection of news stories, and there’s no way to turn off that feature. It’s like logging onto AOL circa 1996.

Sure, you could use incognito mode, but it shouldn’t be an all or nothing choice. If I want to have my cookies and history saved without my search history being immediately presented to anyone who picks up my iPad, that should be an option.

(And why, when visiting Google sites, does it assume I want to use the most recently added Google account used in my Gmail app? Wouldn't it make more sense to assume I'm using the default/primary one if it's going to autofill the login screen? And why make it so difficult to log out so that I can log in to the proper account?)