Chrome will redact credit cards, passwords when you share Android screen

When you share or record your screen on Android using Chrome, Google will redact your credit card information, passwords, and other sensitive information.

Google Chrome does not allow you to capture anything while in incognito mode, but regular tabs do. If you record or share your screen, you risk exposing your passwords, credit cards, and other sensitive form fields.

Google wants to address this issue and is testing a new experimental flag called “Redact sensitive content during screen sharing, screen recording, and similar actions.”

“When enabled, if sensitive form fields (such as credit cards and passwords) exist on the page, the entire content area is redacted during screen sharing, screen recording, and similar actions. “This feature is only available on Android V or higher,” Google stated in the flag description.

While the flag currently does not work, it is intended to hide sensitive form fields on the page by redacting the entire screen.

It is unclear when the feature will be available to everyone in Chrome for Android, but you can test it in Chrome Canary in the coming weeks.

Browser research Leo also spotted a new option in Chrome Android that lets you close all incognito tabs.