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

Google will redact your credit card details, passwords and other sensitive information in Chrome when you’re sharing or recording your screen on Android.

Google Chrome doesn’t allow you to capture anything when used in incognito mode, but that’s not the case in regular tabs. If you’re recording or sharing your screen, you’re also leaking your passwords, credit cards and other sensitive form fields.

Google wants to fix 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, passwords) are present on th page, the entire content area is redacted during screen sharing, screen recording, and similar actions. This feature works only on Android V or above,” Google noted in the flag description.

While the flag doesn’t work at the moment, it is supposed to hide sensitive form fields present on the page by redacting the entire screen.

It’s unclear when the feature will be rolled out to everyone in Chrome for Android, but you’ll be able to try the feature in Chrome Canary in the next few weeks.

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