Here’s a fun new feature for Chrome for Android: incognito tabs with fingerprint protection. 9to5Google discovered this feature in the Chrome 105 stable channel, although you’ll have to dig into settings to enable it for now.
If you want to add a little more protection to your private browsing sessions, type “chrome://flags/#incognito-reauthentication-for-android”into the address bar and press Enter. After enabling the flag and restarting Chrome, you should see the option “Lock incognito tabs when exiting Chrome”. If you log out of your incognito session and come back, the “unlock incognito”screen will appear instead of tabs and you will be asked to scan your fingerprint.
Chrome on iOS has had a biometric-enabled incognito feature called “Privacy Screen”for several years now. However, this is a first for Android. Chrome’s “checkboxes”menu is technically for experimentation and features under development, so it’s not guaranteed to become a readily available custom feature, but entering a stable channel – plus a feature already in iOS – is a good sign.